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Location
Kent
You reckon? We had two identical 200hp tractors up until July this year, one on 20.8r42, the other on 620/70r42.
The one on the 20.8's would run rings round it's mate when it came to putting the power down, it's superb. The one on the wider boots didn't cut in as much in soft going, but would lose traction far quicker.

The masters of drilling in the wet (team triton) would advocate at least 100hp/m, and tracks.

Personally? I'd go for the widest mounted GD you could - so you can at least achieve some weight transfer, and get yourself out of the poop when everything grinds to a halt. On tyres just wide enough to hold you up.
With DD reducing footprint weight is absolutely key when wet, or you may as well not bother.
If it's so wet you can't pull it with wide or duals, put it back in the shed because it's far too wet and the seed will rot anyway.
 
Stones getting between the discs, but also the sharp edge of the disc melts away with stone.
Very rare at no-till, but in cultivated soil it happens. Here is extremely many flint stones and after only 1100 ha discs has to be renewed.
But it means nothing, because less work (salary here is typically >27£/hour) with stones and saved money by no-till makes it worth.
 

Adeptandy

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Arable Farmer
Location
PE15
Getting close to drilling the S Linseed, what's the norm, through the drill as cereals or does it go through the rotometer ?
 

Adeptandy

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Arable Farmer
Location
PE15
How are your autumn drilled GD crops looking?
If it hadn't been for lakes appearing all would look good. Only had 1 field fail and that was a trash management issue after OSR and the chopper not spreading well on the combine. Just patched that in by drilling crossways with S Wheat so what's there already has a chance to continue to grow. Looks to have gone well.
Neighbors have lakes a s well after the plough/combi, so cant blame the system for them.
 

clbarclay

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Location
Worcestershire
I find the speed of the motor on mine can vary significantly between calibration runs it the max forward speed is too high (seems to give issue somewhere over 15 km/h). To avoid this when calibrating I start by wind the meter most of the way closed (say about half of whatever the book recommends for a crop/rate), fill up the hopper, set target rate and perform a calibration.

This usually results in a very low max speed. Take the width of the meter, divide it by current max speed and multiply by desired max speed. I normally drill at 8km/h and aim for max speed to be around 11 to 12km/h, which has worked consistently well so far with all crops.

Wind the meter out to the calculated width and then re calibrate.
 
Has anybody had the metering mechanism on the GD stop turning whilst drilling? Every year we have at least two runs where this has happened with no alarms going off. It resets after lifting and turning for the next run. The length of the miss can be 50m or 400m just depends on the length of the run it happens on. Had Weavings out but nothing found, i can only think its something to do with the top switch clicking back for some reason whilst drilling. Just wondering if anybody has had this problem and found the cause.(y)
 

farmerfred86

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BASIS
Location
Suffolk
We had this start to happen on our 6m. The only reason I noticed was the green ticks at the top of the RDS screen changed to red crosses. No alarm.
It was the hydraulic valve that failed and then pushed the lever past the top switch shutting the meter unit off. I’m now on my 4th valve!
 

EddieB

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Arable Farmer
Location
Staffs
Can you configure the alarm settings to give you a warning? Not that it solves the problem, but at least you know about it straight away. I have had this happen on other drills.
 

farmerfred86

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BASIS
Location
Suffolk
Can you configure the alarm settings to give you a warning? Not that it solves the problem, but at least you know about it straight away. I have had this happen on other drills.
No you can’t. It’s a real problem. The red crosses are simply the drill indicating that it’s not seeding which is what happens on the headlands anyway. They need to get it sorted.
 

EddieB

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Arable Farmer
Location
Staffs
No you can’t. It’s a real problem. The red crosses are simply the drill indicating that it’s not seeding which is what happens on the headlands anyway. They need to get it sorted.
That’s not great, just bought a GD but not used it yet. Same control box as on a Mzuri and only had it happen once. Prior to that a Kuhn which would normally sound an alarm if you were moving with the drill in the ground and not seeding.
 

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