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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 .
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Originally posted by furrowtickler View PostStill 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 .
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Originally posted by caseih View Post[ATTACH]2963[/ATTACH]may 16 with the old morris maxim 2 , no rain until 10 days ago
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.
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Originally posted by Stampsguy View PostMost guys with new Bourgault Paralinks have the worst patchy germination in our area. Older equipment inc. air seeders looking best.
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.Last edited by farmaholic; Jun 10, 2018, 23:13.
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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.
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Originally posted by farmaholic View Post13 - 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.
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