A test for seed drills ....

[furrowtickler]

Would the technotill work in sticky clay?

Some very sticky clay here and it seems always good . About 4 units running in this area with them on .

[helmsdale]

how well does the technotill close over top of the fertilizer, and how much soil typically ends up over top of the fert?

[furrowtickler]

how well does the technotill close over top of the fertilizer, and how much soil typically ends up over top of the fert?

I don’t know exactly, but they can be adjusted

[furrowtickler]

Still one of my favourite drills in the area is a flexi coil cultivator , refitted to 15 in space with a Valmar for the canola and a liquid set up. Great establishment almost always , accurate and less than half the cost of a comparable size drill .

[helmsdale]

Still one of my favourite drills in the area is a flexi coil cultivator , refitted to 15 in space with a Valmar for the canola and a liquid set up. Great establishment almost always , accurate and less than half the cost of a comparable size drill .

generally eliminates the preseed burn... few things resistant to steel. Perhaps they would go through last years stubble fairly well, but the few guys that are using them here are on chemfallow, and you had better have damned good active suspensions on all your equipment, or at least wear spurs on your work boots to dig into the side of the seat.

[Stampsguy]

Most guys with new Bourgault Paralinks have the worst patchy germination in our area. Older equipment inc. air seeders looking best.

[Oliver88]

[ATTACH]2963[/ATTACH]may 16 with the old morris maxim 2 , no rain until 10 days ago

Looks like a good crop on the way, your Morris appears to be an excellent drill. 👍🏻

From what I see a brand new drill is one of the items that will drop in value the fastest.

A few years ago when one of the large “consultant/office tower” farms were forced to dump their Seedhawks at Ritchie Bros they appeared to sell for about 1/3 of new......the units were 2-3 years old.

[farmaholic]

Most guys with new Bourgault Paralinks have the worst patchy germination in our area. Older equipment inc. air seeders looking best.

I don't know if I'd go as far to say that here. I would have cooked my canola sidebanding 267lbs of product that close to the seed with the dry conditions this spring and our soil type. What hurt me most on one half section was seeding it deeper than we normally seed and packing it in pretty tight, along with a seed lot size of 6.4 grams TKW which DOW(Nexera)says effectively dropped my seeding rate by 20%, 4.6 lbs per acre of large seeds....it ain't pretty but canola is somewhat forgiving when it comes to less than ideal plants per square foot. The Liberty is better, with the same treatment except seed size about 1 gram less.

Here's a thought, so you set the drill for an inch...and I'm on the record as saying that's probably anywhere from 3/4 to 1-1/4 inches....but here is the problem, how many different conditions do you encounter in a half section field with an old yardsite that is gone and seeded through along with bushes broke and seeded through, bits of land that was pasture and not broke with the rest of the field since it was first farmed, fence line or field border blow dirt ridges, higher ground that is blown off and harder.....and anything in between!

You know what equalizes almost everything? Adequate moisture and maybe no hot dry hurricane winds all ****en spring.

Paralinks aren't perfect and are a very high maintenance drill but I prefer it's performance over what I had before. Next year I don't think I want to seed canola as deep as I did this year.

[farmaholic]

13 - 15 foot semi rigid drill frame sections with wide packer gangs was not the most ideal configuration for our topography. Gouging and uneven on row packing had it's limitations here.

I made a comment to SF3 about his soil being a lot more forgiving than ours. A moist thick black A horizon supported by a good clay base B and C horizon will beat my soil type(most of it) hands down any day! I'm doing the best i can with what I have, Mother Nature rules.

[furrowtickler]

13 - 15 foot semi rigid drill frame sections with wide packer gangs was not the most ideal configuration for our topography. Gouging and uneven on row packing had it's limitations here.

I made a comment to SF3 about his soil being a lot more forgiving than ours. A moist thick black A horizon supported by a good clay base B and C horizon will beat my soil type(most of it) hands down any day! I'm doing the best i can with what I have, Mother Nature rules.

Very good point on soil horizon and being more forgiving on challenge dry springs