Where Can I Buy Flint Seed?

[Cab-over Pete]

Aye-up,

There’s a bloke in FW who has built his own flint stone harvester out of an old combine.

He harvested 1250 tonnes of flint from a 10 acre field in one day and it fetches £65/tonne.

I don’t know the growing costs of flint but that is some output!! How often can it be harvested in the rotation?
Does it suit wet ground?

Cheers, Pete.

 

[bovrill]

It's the volunteers the previous year that are the problem.

 

[Brisel]

They do grow well here, helped by forward angled tines, ploughs etc. I might have a business proposition for you, Pete...

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Any of the really big Hampshire Diamonds?

 

[Brisel]

Thankfully not, though the small stuff lovingly smashed by my steel is worth less. A few the size of your forearm. This photo was taken 200 metres over the Hants border in Dorset.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I know my brother in law near Alresford can shred tyres in no time due to the tiny flints.

 

[Exfarmer]

They grow well in Norfolk. We used to harvest them every few years before potatoes. Farm roads never looked better, some guys even sold them for hardcore.
Then someone decided this was not a good idea as Norfolk was slowly getting lower and would soon sink below the sea.
I would not try growing them though @Cab-over Pete once grown you will never get rid of the things and they cut your tyres to shreds

 

[Brisel]

I know my brother in law near Alresford can shred tyres in no time due to the tiny flints.

I did a summer job at Fonthill Estate in Wilts. They got through a set of tyres/year on the main tractors! It's easier working ground but what we save on the extra hp the clay farms need gets spent on wearing parts & tyres.

 

[T Hectares]

@Cab-over Pete I can sort you out!!
Would you like the ones like in this picture??
These ones are a couple of years from harvesting, the seed is the one on my boot, I can supply 10ha packs of hybrid self sharpening flint-seed, they come with micro nutrient seed coatings and will definitely need 5ltr/ha of biostimulants which I can provide, let me know if you're interested??

 

[Daniel]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1230791386758361088

Here it is in all it's glory.

There have been a fair number of comments about its, admittedly, rather exposed drive shafts, but I think it's superb.

 

[bankrupt]

He harvested 1250 tonnes of flint from a 10 acre field in one day and it fetches £65/tonne.

Sharp operator.

Get's £80k/day ahead and then spills the beans to the yellow 'un.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Top work!!!

 

[Steevo]

I'm surprised they bother farming it if they can really harvest and sell stone like that. Sounds like a licence to print money......yet they are using a tired 4000hr MF combine as a base unit.

 

[Exfarmer]

I think somebody has put the dot in the wrong place £65 £6.50 per tonne

 

[Steevo]

I think somebody has put the dot in the wrong place £65 £6.50 per tonne

I paid £54+VAT for a big bag recently which I think is approx 900kg. But that’s retail for washed stone, not dug straight out of a field bulk by the trailer load.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I think somebody has put the dot in the wrong place £65 £6.50 per tonne

Ah, right. That would make a bit of a difference. Still, not too bad though.

 

[theboytheboy]

Aye-up,

There’s a bloke in FW who has built his own flint stone harvester out of an old combine.

He harvested 1250 tonnes of flint from a 10 acre field in one day and it fetches £65/tonne.

I don’t know the growing costs of flint but that is some output!! How often can it be harvested in the rotation?
Does it suit wet ground?

Cheers, Pete.

I've a a field I reckon could do the same!

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Make sure you’ve got your figures right!

 

[DanniAgro]

Sharp operator.

Get's £80k/day ahead and then spills the beans to the yellow 'un.

Really if I had a great paying job that no one else did, I'd think that I was a fool to talk to anyone about it, especially a national magazine. Next thing you know the market's flooded and the price crashed. Best to keep it under your hat for as long as possible.

 

[trook135]

It all depends on the size of the flint too, for building use you only want flints that are about fist size and as little napped as possible, most of what comes up will be either smashed to pieces or waaay too big, this makes it nearly impossible to sell the stuff unless its sorted into size and quality for the building trade otherwise its just hardcore/fill material.
I have a mate next door who did the same with an old spud de-stoner, he now has about 1000ton just sat alongside a shed in a heap doing nothing, whats worse is the bit that was 'de-stoned' now looks exactly the same as before it was de-stoned!