Claydon Twin tine users

[Andrew K]

Any one using a twin tine kit to sow in both wet or dry, how do you get on?
Is trash or depth control an issue?

 

[jim s]

had a claydon on demo/hire last autumn we drilled all wheat and barley with wet tine kit as this what we wanted to try yes got alot drilled early before it rained but last 120 ha of wheat went in after the rain in dec and is all up . yes have a new claydon in shed now as a result from that . re trash and depth all i can say is we actually used a amazon catros to shallow disc prior to drilling to try and get a good chit and aid in making sure that there was a good tilth for the seed to go into .

 

[Andrew K]

had a claydon on demo/hire last autumn we drilled all wheat and barley with wet tine kit as this what we wanted to try yes got alot drilled early before it rained but last 120 ha of wheat went in after the rain in dec and is all up . yes have a new claydon in shed now as a result from that . re trash and depth all i can say is we actually used a amazon catros to shallow disc prior to drilling to try and get a good chit and aid in making sure that there was a good tilth for the seed to go into .

Thanks Jim, was the finish good and level?

 

[B&B Pig Man]

Any one using a twin tine kit to sow in both wet or dry, how do you get on?
Is trash or depth control an issue?

Are you considering a change from the Mzuri?

 

[Andrew K]

Looking to go wider really, all options being considered.

 

[Rob Holmes]

As you probably know, we bought a 3 m Fert Hybrid with wet weather kit,

Basically, they've paid for themselves already!

We drilled mid dec and we wouldn't have been able to go with normal A shares as they wouldn't have made enough tilth, the only other options would of been to plough or spring crop.

The majority of the crops drill with the WWK have come well, even where i doubted it would due to poor tilth, but it looks good.
The places where the crop hasn't come is on the waterlogged soil, which is understandable after such a wet winter, so not fair to blame it on the WWK

But it wasn't the WWK on it's own that worked, the double harrow bar with the green spring tines really helped as it gave such good soil coverage

 

[jim s]

finish was good and fairly level even in the wet . as rob has said earlier the tines are good , we found lifting batter bds up out the way was best in wet and letting the tines cover the seed where as in the dry the two working together left it level .

 

[Devon James]

Does the crop sown with the wwk fill and tiller across the rows and look like a more 'normal' crop of wheat?

 

[jim s]

yes it does . will get some photos up tommorow

 

[charlie@horizon]

Here's some snaps I've got of crops sown with the Claydon Twin Tine Kit sown last Spring, hopefully Jim and Rob Holmes can add a few more of autumn sown crops which I don't really have....
We ran a bit of a trial last spring with the A Share and Twin Tine Kit, because drilling conditions were fairly wet the Twin Tine kit certainly worked very well, was easy for Frank to set up and it created a good tilth etc. The different crops looked very interesting through the growing period, the Twin Tine looks more conventional so looks like a better crops but the band sowing did what its always done and created better routing and appeared to tiller out better. Nobody knew what would yield better, and there were a lot of theories being banded about.....Sure enough when the combine went in there was literally nothing between them in yield

!!

 

[Andrew K]

Anyone used the Aitchinson tine on a Claydon drill as an alternative, should penetrate rock hard surface more easily?

 

[tr250]

Anyone still using these as their main coulter and using do you use the tine or the discs in front

 

[clbarclay]

Does the WWK make any difference to how much trash or long stubble they can drill through?

 

[GlennW]

Have changed ours over to twin tine kit this spring, hoping it stays like that for the most part as a full day changing over (6m) is a ball ache and not to be done on a whim
I can see that lots of chopped straw, trash will be more of a problem as room in the drill is 50% less

 

[Hard Graft]

I had a lot off trash and bulky covers last autumn and regretted not failing them off to use the wet weather kit did talk about it but held off