Weaving sabre tine user thread

matthewizod

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Arable Farmer
Location
Chipping norton
What are you moving the top inch with ?
Vaderstad carrier, seems to give the most even depth control, we converted our old NZ tine cultivator to act as straw rake but didnt like it when it was hard post harvest.

Just got to pick the crop you follow on clay we reckon, we had some linseed on some of our toughest ground this year and it has worked down lovely with the carrier just taking the post harvest wheelings
 

Grass And Grain

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorks
So we did some moderate Mg index 7.5 stuff Tuesday straigt into stubble with our sabre tool bar and it closed really well but it had been dry for a few days, we then tried some properly nasty MG index 9.8 (1700ppm) stuff after 5mm yesterday and it cut slots so had to pull out. With my short experience it likes a bit of crumb or dry on top to drag over the seed. I think it would have been excellent at the start of the month and if we can get a dry top it might still go.

So i cannot see it not working on clay but like all clay its the timing
Do I remember correctly from earlier posts that you've built this drill yourself? Really interesting.

Would love to see some photos.
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
Do I remember correctly from earlier posts that you've built this drill yourself? Really interesting.

Would love to see some photos.

This is it finished

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Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
Did you get the legs from weaving?

yup they were one of the companies who were more than happy to supply whatever i needed and offered a load of help (y) , following harrrow tines (really really good) also came from them plus the hoses. The dsitribution head came from andy guest but i think i could have propably got that from weaving as well but didn;t realise at the time.
 

hollister

Member
Location
Alcester, warks
yup they were one of the companies who were more than happy to supply whatever i needed and offered a load of help (y) , following harrrow tines (really really good) also came from them plus the hoses. The dsitribution head came from andy guest but i think i could have propably got that from weaving as well but didn;t realise at the time.
yes they will make up a custom outlet head with how ever many outlets you want.
 

hollister

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Location
Alcester, warks
Just checked £145 each but that is the leg complete, mounting, bolts, rubber air bleeds and all the jubilee clips. so basically everything to go on the end of the hose, so i thought pretty good value for that.

The next thing is a GD tool bar 🤪
what size box section? we have a weaving tine drill and I am tempted to swap them for the sabre tine, but worry about the frame strength!
 

Shutesy

Moderator
Arable Farmer
what size box section? we have a weaving tine drill and I am tempted to swap them for the sabre tine, but worry about the frame strength!
Theres a reason the sabre tine drill is so much heavier than the equivalent standard tine drill. If you could get the sabre tine legs to fit on your standard drill I would think it will start breaking up over time as its a much lighter design.
 

Grass And Grain

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorks
Thanks for posting the pics. Looks absolutely fantastic! Simple, lightweight, effective. Like the two rows of harrows setup. I guess it will have been £6-7k (plus front hopper), but if you've made yourself a 'new' direct tine drill for that sort of money - then I'd say a top result.

Look forward to seeing the plants up in rows. What sort of land were you drilling into?
 

hollister

Member
Location
Alcester, warks
Theres a reason the sabre tine drill is so much heavier than the equivalent standard tine drill. If you could get the sabre tine legs to fit on your standard drill I would think it will start breaking up over time as is a much lighter design.
yep, hence my hesitation! they do an auto reset style too, but i think that would only be suitable on cultivated ground, but as its narrower and different shape to the standard it wont pull up as much ground.
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
Thanks for posting the pics. Looks absolutely fantastic! Simple, lightweight, effective. Like the two rows of harrows setup. I guess it will have been £6-7k (plus front hopper), but if you've made yourself a 'new' direct tine drill for that sort of money - then I'd say a top result.

Look forward to seeing the plants up in rows. What sort of land were you drilling into?

thanks a couple of times when in the workshop at 10pm i did curse it a few times :ROFLMAO: 🤪

i think just totting up the rough bills (excluding my time) but including in the front hopper (which i bought on here second hand but needed a few things, rubber flap, a frame, new 3m gears, drive shaft as Hermes managed to loose and deliver me an empty cardboard tube 🤪 :facepalm: ) the total will be 6.5k split approx 4.5k for the drill, 2k for the hopper.

Some relatively snotty clay, trundling along nicely at 8-9kph doing about 2ha an hour.
 

timmyturbo

New Member
First outing today with our Sabre tine . 60ac ex bean land and 15ac after spring wheat in so far and we’re really pleased with it .View attachment 914726View attachment 914727View attachment 914728View attachment 914729
Hi Bob.
Are you still happy with your setup? I've been speaking to weaving about doing the same thing. The standard drill is way too heavy to pick up (legally) with anything smaller than a 7 series JD/Case optum. I want to run it on a Case Puma 240.
Thanks for any input.
Tim
 

Bob lincs

Member
Arable Farmer
Hi Bob.
Are you still happy with your setup? I've been speaking to weaving about doing the same thing. The standard drill is way too heavy to pick up (legally) with anything smaller than a 7 series JD/Case optum. I want to run it on a Case Puma 240.
Thanks for any input.
Tim
Hi Tim , yes we’re really pleased with it . Our 6210r is more than capable on the 6m with the front hopper . The only thing we may change is the tine brackets behind the wheels , these brackets need some adjustment so the tines behind the wheels can be set deeper . A couple of extra holes so the tines can be set 20mm deeper would do . We’re on 900wide tyres but the mark they leave is enough to not have enough cover on the seed .
Bob
 

Andrew K

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Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
Hi Tim , yes we’re really pleased with it . Our 6210r is more than capable on the 6m with the front hopper . The only thing we may change is the tine brackets behind the wheels , these brackets need some adjustment so the tines behind the wheels can be set deeper . A couple of extra holes so the tines can be set 20mm deeper would do . We’re on 900wide tyres but the mark they leave is enough to not have enough cover on the seed .
Bob
Do you find the coulters run clean and seed flows well in the wet? Think Weaving do a longer tine for behind the wheels etc.
 

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