Spring drilling

Bob lincs

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Arable Farmer
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Laddum spring wheat planted 10 days ago today !
 

T Hectares

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Berkshire
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Nearly kicking some dust up šŸ˜Æ Shame the weather is due to break tomorrow morning just as the heavier land is drying out :mad: No beans or oats drilled yet but at least we've knocked a hole in barley drilling. Another 10 days of yesterday's weather would have been ideal.
We have dust !!
Itā€™s gone from Mud to dust in 3 daysā€¦hopefully the forecast is right and thereā€™s another spell because itā€™s finally going really well
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Wigeon

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Arable Farmer
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Nearly kicking some dust up šŸ˜Æ Shame the weather is due to break tomorrow morning just as the heavier land is drying out :mad: No beans or oats drilled yet but at least we've knocked a hole in barley drilling. Another 10 days of yesterday's weather would have been ideal.
Just to satisfy my curiosity, do the big transport wheels leave much of a wheeling behind the coulters?
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Just to satisfy my curiosity, do the big transport wheels leave much of a wheeling behind the coulters?
800 tyres at 12 psi, so not a big deep mark. The crops grow through it ok even though it looks untidy at the time.

My main concern is the wheels prevent the following harrow from scratching any soil into the trench - I've got an Avadex applicator on the back and don't want exposed seed to be taken out by corvids or the Avadex. We have made a bracket to fit an angled harrow tine behind the coulters in front of the wheels just to flick some soil across. A couple of loops of chain dragging on the ground help too, inspired by the chains on the back of the T Sem drill.
 

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