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Drilling services

Cultivations and Tillage usually represent approx 35% of machinery and labour costs on any arable farm, and it is an area in which savings can often be made with a little bit of carefull thought.

We operate a range of equipment in our contracting business and on our farms, and try to match soil type and conditons to the various machines we have, for the best economic advantage.

Cultivations and Tillage

PLOUGHING

The year starts with the plough, and unless a good job is made here then it becomes more difficult and expense afterwards. The plough we operate is a Kvernland 5 furrow auto reset. Working on a fendt tractor it is well matched and capable of covering all our workload. One operator can usuually cope, but 24hr working with a second operator is carried out when needed depending on the season.

SUBSOILING

A 3 leg subsoiler is availble where required. The photo here shows our older machine in action. This has now been updated with a flat lift. Maize fields are the main area for our work with this machine.

CULTIVATIONS

Power harrows are available where needed to cultivate ahead of a drill, for grass seeds or maize seedbeds. We use 3m power harrows c/w packer rollers.

6m AIR DRILL

The 6m air drill will drill up to 150 acres per day and will put in 12, 18 or 24m tramlines. Very good for grass seeds. Tends to be used in the Autumn until the weather breaks, then the combinations play more of an active roll. Photo shows wheat being drilled on by Tim Honey with the 818 fendt.

3m COMBINATION DRILLS

We run two of these units. All the drills are identical and are normally used with a front press. These are ideal when the whether is catchy and for small contract jobs, so avoiding travelling with two machines.

ROLLERS

The rollers seen here can be used either on ploughing, in which case with the cultivator tines in the ground, or behind the drill, with the tines raised. In the right conditions a seed bed can be created in one pass on ploughing. On our soils rolling after drilling with cereals in the right conitions will aid germination.