Weaving subdisc

Andyrob

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What are peoples thoughts on these.

we had one and was very glad to be rid of it.

the concept of the machine is very good, running costs for us for the wearing metal would of been 25p an acre did a goo job of working stubbles up

the bad

well the guttler roller is a bad design as the scrapers did nothing to clean it. so once jammed full of clay it took a fw hours to loosen. Geoffrey wox has told me there is a mod to fix this tho.

we ranged from some light ground down to clay ground and in lighter going a 6480 was just enough, but in the heavy ground struggled at 12 inches. ideally 190hp would be ideal with around 900kg on the front linkage as the packer blocked needed more weight.

also when doing a field left a little ridge, but neither here nor there.

so this video is subdisc running in barley stubble at 12 inches


running in osr stubble that has been disked first

 

JACK F

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Location
Essex
Had one a few years. Love it. Use it to drill all osr, rip up all osr stubble and about half the wheat stubble going back into wheat. 3m which we now run on 215hp but is the boss of it. Ran for a season on 155hp which is minimum. Less pulling than some similiar competitor machines I had on demo and cheaper to buy and run. Like the guttler press on the back and have only bunged it properly once but that was my fault not the machines. It will run in wetter conditions than when you should be on the fields. Some early machines that went out with dd press I know of have since been converted to the guttler press. We need to run cultipress over it to get a decent seed bed afterwards which is then fine to drill with a weaving tine drill.
 

Jamin

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We ran one for a while and admit it was one of the first. Had headstock break a couple of times and to be fair to weaving it was always fixed with modified parts the next day and we were never charged. Need 2 rows of discs to move more land and we did struggle with guttler as it would keep blocking up and was a bugger to clean out. To be fair to machine we got rid of it because we went to a vaderstad drill and can drill behind the sumo trio with the Vaderstad where needed a bit more work behind the Subdisc which wasn't a problem when we ran our weaving drill as we pulled land down ahead of it with power harrow.
 

Jamin

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We are on a mix of light ish stuff through to heavy clay! Out of what we trio probably 80% will drill straight on sumo with vaderstad. The heaviest stuff we will drag our vaderstad carrier over ahead of drill.
 

WD-40

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Arable Farmer
Location
North Yorks
Do you sumo well infront of drilling and spray for a stale seedbed or sumo just enough land infront to keep drill going Jamin? what size Vad you using and what work rates you doing?
 

turbo

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Arable Farmer
Location
lincs
Thanks for your comments,would a disceratator be a better one to go for with it having two rows of discs.
 

Andyrob

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Media
choice of 160 or 190,soils range from sand to heavy clay

i think a dtx would be a step to big tho, especially as you mention heavy clay.

SImba xpress & ST bar feel would be more suited, especially as the disks can be angled to work across all soils. Also the St bar can come with LD tine as well for Low disturbance work.

Also when the going gets to hard, disconnect them then use in seperate passes.
 

franklin

New Member
4m trailed folding. Behind quadtrac.Would have gone just as well behind 6495.

Good: Metal cheap. Weaving an _excellent_ company to deal with in all respects.Very well priced. Built like a tank.

Bad: Crap in chopped straw.

We bought ours primarily as I like the legs being closer and fairly low draft / disturbance. It is also a short and compact unit. But being short etc meant it really struggled in chopped barley straw etc.

Ours has now gone to a new home and we have gone back to 4.5m solo ST.
 

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