Weaving sabre tine user thread

[Hobbit]

Hi. Has anyone had any experience using the sabre tine to direct drill winter beans on stubbles and cover crops?
Will.

 

[moretimeforgolf]

Hi. Has anyone had any experience using the sabre tine to direct drill winter beans on stubbles and cover crops?
Will.

Yes, really struggled with wet chopped wheat straw. Ours is the old model with 3 rows of tines. Resorted to jd750a to get the job done. It’s been fine into baled stubble. Overall, I’ve been impressed with the sabre times this autumn.

 

[matthewizod]

Hi. Has anyone had any experience using the sabre tine to direct drill winter beans on stubbles and cover crops?
Will.

Went direct in to some kinder soil with beans, not up yet but will take a photo when they are.

I find the new model copes well with trash between the tines but hangs in the harrows, takes a bit if tweaking but we did get some improvement with flow through the harrows. We would be tempted to take every other harrow out in trash/cover.

 

[Hobbit]

Yes, really struggled with wet chopped wheat straw. Ours is the old model with 3 rows of tines. Resorted to jd750a to get the job done. It’s been fine into baled stubble. Overall, I’ve been impressed with the sabre times this autumn.

Thanks for the reply. What soil type are you on?

 

[Bob lincs]

Where the harrows are attached with the parallel links we are changing the bottom one to a top link type adjuster , we need to adjust the the pitch a bit finer than the bolt holes allow .

 

[Bob lincs]

We’re going to start drilling winter beans tomorrow , what depth setting are you all using ? . I was going to take out all of the shims to get as deep as possible .this is in ground that has been cultivated to 4” ish deep . .

 

[matthewizod]

We’re going to start drilling winter beans tomorrow , what depth setting are you all using ? . I was going to take out all of the shims to get as deep as possible .this is in ground that has been cultivated to 4” ish deep . .

I had the orange shim in with seed tubes on lowest setting, pulled at 8k comfortably on our toughest fields, worth checking your counter regularly as we had a few get blocked in the coulter tube

 

[Bob lincs]

I had the orange shim in with seed tubes on lowest setting, pulled at 8k comfortably on our toughest fields, worth checking your counter regularly as we had a few get blocked in the coulter tube

What seed rate ?

 

[matthewizod]

What seed rate ?

250kg tundra beans, they were home saved so not perfectly clean but worth keeping an eye on.

It comfortably put them at 3 inches

 

[Hobbit]

Went direct in to some kinder soil with beans, not up yet but will take a photo when they are.

I find the new model copes well with trash between the tines but hangs in the harrows, takes a bit if tweaking but we did get some improvement with flow through the harrows. We would be tempted to take every other harrow out in trash/cover.

Thanks for the reply. How deep did you drill?

 

[matthewizod]

Thanks for the reply. How deep did you drill?

Probably Tines 5/6 inches deep counters at 4inch, seed depth was more consistent on the stubble than ground we had sub soiled. 8k was a comfortable speed to stop the drill bouncing/rocking too much

 

[moretimeforgolf]

Thanks for the reply. What soil type are you on?

No worries.
Soil ranges from sandy loam to London clay. Got one farm with a lot of angular stone content. Also used it to establish cover crops on a farm with chalk and flint. Not broken anything yet but lost a few of the clips that are used to set the coulter tube adjustment.

 

[Hobbit]

No worries.
Soil ranges from sandy loam to London clay. Got one farm with a lot of angular stone content. Also used it to establish cover crops on a farm with chalk and flint. Not broken anything yet but lost a few of the clips that are used to set the coulter tube adjustment.

We are looking for a simple tine drill to run along side our sky drill, we currently have a sumo Dts which has served us well but our high mag clay just sticks to any moving part late season a blocks up especially drilling beans. Also it’s a bit of a sledge hammer to crack a nut now our soils have adapted to less movement.

 

[alomy75]

No worries.
Soil ranges from sandy loam to London clay. Got one farm with a lot of angular stone content. Also used it to establish cover crops on a farm with chalk and flint. Not broken anything yet but lost a few of the clips that are used to set the coulter tube adjustment.

I brushed past one of those clips with my leg the other day and it fell off! I reckon there may be a design flaw/quality issue with the clips themselves

 

[matthewizod]

I brushed past one of those clips with my leg the other day and it fell off! I reckon there may be a design flaw/quality issue with the clips themselves

We've lost nearly all our clips, seems to be mixed reviews when speaking to weaving

Replaced them with an m8 bolt

 

[moretimeforgolf]

I brushed past one of those clips with my leg the other day and it fell off! I reckon there may be a design flaw/quality issue with the clips themselves

We’ve ended up putting cable ties on them!

 

[Bob lincs]

Winter beans going in well this afternoon , 4mm of rain in the night but settled out well .

 

[Godber]

We are looking for a simple tine drill to run along side our sky drill, we currently have a sumo Dts which has served us well but our high mag clay just sticks to any moving part late season a blocks up especially drilling beans. Also it’s a bit of a sledge hammer to crack a nut now our soils have adapted to less movement.

Can I divert here and ask how the Sky Drill performs in a wetter autumn. Thanks

 

[DieselRob]

It’s always a relief to see it up in the row, KWS Zyatt at 215kg/ha

 

[Hobbit]

Can I divert here and ask how the Sky Drill performs in a wetter autumn. Thanks

It does cope but because it’s so heavy, the wheel slip goes up and smears the soil behind the tractor wheels which isn’t good.
This is really why I’m looking at a sabre tine.