A flail stubble mulcher wich are ment for cotton but we use it on cereal stubble but I’ve heard the gason mulcher for the cereals do well aswell. The horsh stubble cruncher works a treat for canola stubble. Also thought I’d mention pro trackers if you haven’t heard of them before they help with inter row sowing.
Here in Canada we use a Heavy harrow at an angle going 12mph. The tines shred the straw and size it down too bits. Also if you have a Chem box on it we can apply some granular pre-emerg Chem at same time.
We have been running a Kelly chain for 10 years now mostly to break down stubble to get chemicals to work and to get a good early kill on rye grass. That's worked good for us but sometimes you would need to double pass barley stubble. That was until this year we got a new bar and press wheels for the first time and we are have bigger trouble then you in some fields. The fields that have had sheep over them this summer have not been a issue for sowing but the others have. Lots of people around us still burn. But we have a neighbour that sows inter row but he has to cut his straw down low at harvest which as you can imagine makes harvest go longer for him, he also has a GPS globe on the bar to help keep it exactly in between each row. And another guy I know incorporated his stubble in to the soil this year but he also was working in lime so not sure if this is a long term thing for him or not also interesting to see if he had dust issues this year for the sprayer. My agronomist told me he has a client with a bougault bar which has a set of disks out front that chop up the stubble and he has no issues with stubble blocks. All I can say for sure passing it once with a Kelly chain hasn't worked to well for us this year especially in barely stubble.
We tried stubble cruncher on heavy wheat stubble 2 years ago. Hot day early in the year and it would only lay it over. From what we see of it arpund here, good on canola stubble hit and miss at best on cereal stubble. Straw probably changes how brittle it is from year to year, conditions etc. But wouldnt count on it being a saviour. Slasher would be a more reliable result.
Isn’t there a good disc machine that has been produced pretty close to you by Mic ? Stubble cruncher seems to be excellent in canola stubble from what I’ve seen along the Albany hwy. Several cereal stubbles that were done along there also looked like a pretty good job as well. Re; post hole digger. I had the same type and put a simple marker gauge pointer on it so when digging I just gently moved the tractor back or forward so it kept it upright.
Was wondering about a cultivator or Kelly chains, but I suppose any option has to remember the sheer size of the farm. Running a piece of equipment for a day costs money, multiply that by the couple of thousand hectares you have and running any equipment through the ground HAS to make some financial sense. Good luck with it JH.
I was thinking about possibly running a disc prior to planting but then I looked up a stubble cruncher and a mandako one would do the trick nicely. A large 40' one could be easily towed a day before planting and then run the planter wide open without problems.
We have a Kelly chain over east red dirt country works wonders with summer heat smashing stubble with light tillage, your probably trying to avoid tillage but you might be able to chop stubble on a hot summers day with a cruncher
My hubby said you need a prickle chain while you were saying you had a problem. We used one when we had our farm years ago because it just breaks it up.
I have found that sinking the bar in a bit deeper and getting a bit more soil movement around the tyne can help with flow , tricky with canola I know and depends on seed boot arrangement
we use an old stubble slasher (maybe 3 meters wide, perfect for out farm haha) works really work, most of the time we also need to harrow afterwards though.
my god... you worked so hard preventing manly knees using knee pads but you have neglected the hands and have a case of the man hands. Tell George to keep wearing gloves AND kneepads to keep them smooth and prevent manly hands and knees as per all reputable guidance
