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Who said tine drills can’t handle trash!

alomy75

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Re-drilling my winter bird cover after it failed. Pale persicaria, redshank and fat hen took over. Sprayed off yesterday, drilled today and despite my bum being clenched for the whole time, I managed to drill 2.5ha with only one blockage. Astonished.
 

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clbarclay

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Location
Worcestershire
Not me. Having the trash/green still standing and rooted does make a big difference though. I have in the past switched drills from discs to tines when drilling on the green because it was blocking the disc drill.

I can see that one very very minor reason to get a trailed drill instead of a mounted one is it allows you to take much better pics of it working from the cab.
 

Jimdog1

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Re-drilling my winter bird cover after it failed. Pale persicaria, redshank and fat hen took over. Sprayed off yesterday, drilled today and despite my bum being clenched for the whole time, I managed to drill 2.5ha with only one blockage. Astonished.
Very impressive. Would be great to see some pictures when it comes up.👍
 

Clive

Staff Member
Moderator
Location
Lichfield
Re-drilling my winter bird cover after it failed. Pale persicaria, redshank and fat hen took over. Sprayed off yesterday, drilled today and despite my bum being clenched for the whole time, I managed to drill 2.5ha with only one blockage. Astonished.

so it did block then !

whoever said tines can’t handle trash was right :)


all the same, looks an impressive job
 

alomy75

Member
Not me. Having the trash/green still standing and rooted does make a big difference though. I have in the past switched drills from discs to tines when drilling on the green because it was blocking the disc drill.

I can see that one very very minor reason to get a trailed drill instead of a mounted one is it allows you to take much better pics of it working from the cab.
It’s actually a screenshot from a video but I couldn’t find an easy way of uploading it from my phone(?)
 

alomy75

Member
so it did block then !

whoever said tines can’t handle trash was right :)


all the same, looks an impressive job
It did; on the huge heap that I created the first time I drilled it 😂 The first time was into sprayed off last year’s bird food which was all dead and not quite brittle enough and as said above; that was not quite as successful!
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
I have done it in quite thick cover crops but only when still green and very dry. I tried the day after when it was wet and it didn’t really work
 

alomy75

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Had a quick walk through the cover tonight; pretty impressed with how it’s coming. Official guidance for drilling date is mid-feb to mid-june but I guess it’s only a recommendation…we should fare much better with this July drilled.
 

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