IT FELL OFF AGAIN!! | SOWING SPRING BARLEY 2024 

This video shows the amount of work it takes to farm. Not for the faint hearted,

I drove past last night and spotted you working away. Great job 👏

Crack on , make the most of the dry weather. 😊

I think a 4m Horsch Pronto grain and fert would suits you guys perfectly. Great drill worked a 6m for 6 years drilling 3500/4000 acres a year. No problems just wearing parts. Will drill onto ploughed ground or min till.

Great video Phil. Enjoyed watching. 👍🏼👍🏼

Great Video Phil, full on work no exhaust and 2:10 am finish, well done thanks for sharing

Looking good and thanks for explaining what you're doing fer us that are not farmers.

That reminds of working on trawlers getting thrown about in bad weather, man & it tiers you out no end. Keep 'er Lit.

I have a 4m 400p vaderstad drill great machine to cover acres and not big money to buy well worth a look

A combination drill is the way to go, definitely! I've sown 1000's of acres with a 3m kuhn combination drill, just on Suffolk Coulters with Hydraulic Coulter lift. It was great at sowing grass seed, too. If you're in stoney land then buy new. I find that once you have to open the bed up to replace a bearing then its time to get rid. Surely, if you traded in the old Ford sprayer and some old tractors you have, hanging about doing nothing then you could have some decent kit that will save time and make some money.

Take out that massey 30 4 meter drill there a great drill

Could you not put a 3 meter air drill onto the lemken harrow and put a front press on it aswell...

Every time I see that Lemkin I want one. Some piece of kit

Think of cost Phil as I'm sure u have . 3 men 3 machines 3 lots of fuel and 3 times as long . One pass or something of its kind will save massive money and more importantly time

My mudguard on my renault ares broke off last year and one of my mates turned to me and said I'm just ""farmer phill spec""

The kuhn combination drills, the 5 meter drill and the tank on the front is a fantastic option that ye should definitely look into!!

Thanks again paddy what a great laugh with you rattling about your cab and everything falling off 😂

We have 5 drills! 4m Amazone combi on suffolk coulters that drills nurse barley when fettling beet land, had it years. 4m Vaderstad rapid drills cover crops and spring oats into cover crops. 6m KRM tine drill doesn't do a lot, handy in a wet time. Those three didn't cost £10k together. We also have a 3m Pottinger on disc coulters bought new that drills things like wheat after potatoes and barley after wheat. (brilliant) and a 3m Mzuri strip til drill bought two yrs ago on a grant. Saved a lot of cultivation, and replaced an old Kockerling tine drill. They all have a place.

Brillant video Phil your doing Abit of work now Phil not before time 😂😂😂😂😂great stuff phil

Good one Phil, got a lot done long days in the field hoping for a good crop. The weather looks good !

Make it a straight pipe if you like the sound😁

Good man Phil, long hours there.

Would have looked at a Horsch Avatar or Pronto drill, maybe one that can drill directly into the stubble as well as "normal" sowing in worked ground :)

'We're getting there' Whiplash 😮

Nice one Phil

Good stuff

Great video lad good to see ye all working together 👍👍what is lee at

Great to see the field work in progress. What’s Lee up to

Ye should get pipefab ta make a stainless section for the exhaust life time job. I got two sections made for my massey fitted perfect

Hire in someone with a one pass to do some of the work be well worth it

I can see why you would be looking to get a single pass for planting the cereals. Realistically from a labour point it will be just you and your father, Bro is in college and will most like be working when he finishes, Liv looks after the stock in the yard, getting good operators like Lee, Rory or Brendan isn’t possible every year so it make sense to see what other options are there especially with the other spring work that will be going on. Also for 200-250ac a year it needs to be affordable. A couple of things to take into account but the most important would be the fields, are you fields suitable for one pass? If you still have fields with those massive stones then no pint putting a nice one pass or combi drill into them only to make bits of the it. The standard 3m 1 pass units are still the most common set-up in Ireland so plenty of options around. They do would best on ploughed ground so you will still need to use the lekmen on ground that can’t be ploughed beforehand. Most do about 30-40ac/day, 4m might get 50ac (depending on the amount of time you want to be in the tractor). Depending on what size you go for the you will need to know what tractor to put I on especially if you go for a 4m with hopper on front as these are not easy to take on and off. This will tie up a tractor for a couple of weeks. Id go with the 7618 so that the 99 can still do the heavy harrow and the slurry pumping. You will still need the 6270 to put out fertilizer. The trailed units do offer the option to sow seed and fertilizer at the same time. While big and clunky they do offer the flexibility to take the machine on and off easier which is handy especially when you need to do a different job with tractor on the same day. Another option would be something like a clayton unit that plants straight into stubble, not sure if they can take fertilizer as well. While the combi drills can drill start into stubble if it the land had been tracked over winter, or slurry or dung when out or cattle were out wintered on it would need to have been ploughed or harrowed 1st.

I would go with a one pass as they work in all conditions

We had the same debate a few years ago, 6m trailed or 4 meter combi with front tank, being in Cumbria and having as much rain as the next man we went with the combi, if you find yourself in a sticky patch at least you can lift a combi up, the trailed drill is on the floor whatever the weather 🤷 hope that helps

Well come ji

Kockerling jockey drill just the job easy to maintain cultivator drill 6 meter you will surprised how good they are

I think you should straight pipe the 99 phil sounds nice 👌 love the videos

One pass all the way

It sounds like the 3690 now ;)

A big Massey 30 6 meters with narrow spacing.. you would sow the lot in a day..

Take a look at Erth engineering agriseeder for a one pass, it looks to be a good sturdy machine imo & it's made just up the road in northern Ireland

Will you keep the big cattle trailer

Hard to beat a 3m one pass, big pull drills are fine in good conditions but a non runner in poor conditions. Do up the masses 4m drill and drive on for a few years until you get a ope pass sorted

4am deffo

Go bigger! With all the work you do...

A claydon tine drill would probably suit your stoney ground. They do a nice job in my opinion

It seems to be a weakness in that series of massey the front fenders on my 6465 broke my heart but a hell of a machine

My old boy ran a one pass for a contractor for years but he reckons an old drill without the air is better as the revs have to be up tp keep the air feeding going but he would have liked to slow the revs off for certain areas of land to save the teeth on the power harrow.

That was a class video of you working farmer Phil Great job 🎉🎉🎉🎉

A drill is probably better if you have stoney ground

With the time saved with a one pass, would there be contract work locally for it to contribute to the payments, like ye do with most other machines??

I thought it was the injector pump on the 6480 Not so bad.

One pass some job lad !

Brilliant video Phil, how in hell do you stay awake. You work so very hard mate well done. 👍

Surly a disc 1 pass will cope in thr same way your disc harrow does....

should straight pipe the 99 for sure would sound quite the part

What about a seeder yoke put on the lemken

Do ya think the slurry is still in the field with all the rain?

Good video farmer Phil and father Phil and bother

Your getting some shaking up Phil a bit rough today

Leave it at home. You won't have to get out to find it 😊

Happy Sunday evening to our favourite farmers in the world 🌍.So so good luck 🤞.

176 k per hectare is about 11.3 stone to the acre

Jayas fix that exhaust couldn't here a word u saying 😢

Your some man for one man

Sounds like the 3690 on the harrow what's Lee upto

One pass all t way.hav both drills one pass only 1 tis year.

Ud get a older powerharrow 3m one pass on the lift fairly cheap but ud do a lot more work in a day with a 3 or 4m seed+fert disck horsh or vaderstad or the disck potingger

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Hi Phil, just started the video ! I may have missed it, but have you had the final numbers on all the bull beef weights and sale prices please?

The potato lads are getting in very late with the planting

Long hours

Dude u need a bigger harrow bad u wrk urself to death savings in fuel pay for it

Sell the 6480 , buy another 99 , 6 meter trailed harrow and big 6 metre valderstad drills. 2 99’s would be some workhorses

Please wear a microphone . We missed so much of what you were saying in the cab .

one pass,,, phil,,,

A kuhn 4000 maybe My bro in the UK was saying the vaderstad would break your heart in sticky conditions blocking

Waisting ur time u would buy a ration cheaper

Phil can you change your background music it’s always the same 😂😂😂

👍👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏🙏💪💪👏👏

You need a deere

Why don’t you just get a bigger disc harrow and stay sowing the way you are

I cringed when you swapped from auto to manual steering with your thumb on the inside of the steering wheel. A kick back from the spokes stings a bit !!!!!

What a complete mess of a job…

Did you buy a new cattle trailer