FARM UPDATE 256 Guttler cultivator on demo, finish beet drilling, preparing soil for Capulet beans

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[@user-tx6rv6ip1j]

Good old triple K from the 1960s with a lick of paint 😀

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

And a lot stronger frame and tines but I get your point!

[@TheGrimReaper1]

Yes the “Triple K’ was a game changer compared to the “chip harrow” and the spring tine harrow with the big lever to adjust the depth (with the wide tines) If you had one you were on the ball.

[@robertsmith9810]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard MASC STIG I THINK ,BUT WITH 60/70 HP DID NOT NEED STRONGER TIES AND FRAME

[@johncastle1702]

Looks like farming operations has gone full circle, I remember 60 years ago getting excited to be let loose with a spring tine harrow.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂

[@1ADP]

Did acres acres with a 10’ triple k on a Nuffield I had the oldest tractor no cab being about 10 years old helping with the spring barley drilling,we don’t get frost mould any more

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@1ADP Frost mould makes so much difference, when we get it!

[@robdavis5711]

Ha! Everyone’s favourite, Barry Digger, he’s earned cult status on the channel!

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂👍

[@robertallen3441]

The Guttler is basically an updated Flemstoff triple K. Remember Dad using one in 1960s / 70s behind a Ford 4000 instead of an 8RX. Dont think he got wheelmark issues with his Stanhay beet drill either !!! I know it has been a difficult year with the wet land, and you havent ploughed for many years, but I do wonder if the ground @ 5:35 would have been better if it had been deep ploughed in the autumn and left over winter. Be interesting to do a small trial this autumn if we get a similar season.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We did a trial 12 years ago and we got better yields and lower establishment costs with the solo. Everyone around here still Plough’s and they’re in the same situation. Lincolnshire has been the wettest county since Sept and our heavy soils with a mix of 80% silt and clay just can’t stand it. Normal service will be resumed this next season!

[@marettachalmers-fv5lj]

Bloody tough conditions with you Andrew, congrats on being flexible enough on the cultivations strategy you are using to create a seedbed. It'll be really interesting to see how your crops progress over the coming months. Good luck.

[@Shaunalexander.99]

Large heavy kit gets the ground covered quick Andrew but finds all the wet spots. I can remember drilling beet with mf 135 and Webb 6 row !!

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂👌

[@bobcrawford2105]

Spring tine cultivator been around many many years and can do good job in right conditions. Nice to see sugar beet seed going in big relief I bet Headland ruts just got to accept them this year

[@jamesbrown7794]

Good to see you got planting done with dust plants have roots to find water and nutrient no need to worry about rain plenty of water in your soil thanks for sharing your farming passion

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Rain forecast for Tuesday now but amount has reduced. ☹️

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video Wardy!! challenging conditions, thanks for sharing

[@peterhaymaker7562]

I think bricks could make a good break crop. I guess the swallows won't find it too difficult this year to find nest building material either. Loved the video as per usual. P.

[@philipedwards8492]

Good Video, hopefully We have a shower this next week, We have a barley/pea mix emerging, also under sown with grass which needs a drink. Is,nt amazing how quick we go from too wet to too dry ! on the surface anyway. I can see you,ve got to be careful to pick the right moment to act on your land. Sugar Beet drill doing a great job with just a little dust appearing behind. Have a good week Andrew😊

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

When a wet period turns dry, Soil seems to need regular rain to keep it right.

[@peterwilson-qj2ds]

A brilliant update Andrew, the beet drill has done a nice job in those conditions. It is still very surprising at how wet it is, but will agree a little rain will help break down the land.

[@juliancope1925]

Really good video today love how you explain how the different implements work

[@jonstephens682]

Cracking update again Andrew. Nice to see all,the field work going on and getting some jobs done, goes to show how soft it is still when the drill turned.

[@denniscarvell1828]

Nice to see you mention the wildlife on the farm particularly the birds, like partridge,which I always love to see

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We have loads of them to the extent that I don’t show them enough because we see them all the time.

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Nice video

[@adrianlayen4119]

Another good update Andrew. Really interesting to see the state of the land, unbelievable how dry and hard the surface is and how wet it is just a few inches down. As far as tramlines, I remember watching an episode of Clarksons farm when Jeremy decided to ignore what Kaleb told him about the drill and setting out the tramlines. He ended up with the tramlines all one side of the field. Thanks Andrew, looking forward to the next one.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I remember seeing that one as well. Wasn’t that the episode where Kaleb said Jeremy’s drilling was as straight as a round about?!!😂😂

[@luisnunes7933]

Hello! Another fine one...

[@gunton21]

Another top class video. 👌👍

[@roberthoward3723]

Thanks for informative vlog. Ground compaction is a big issue I remember loading bales of straw on to a trailer in the middle of a field years ago with a telescopic and then taking the quad track and cultivator through it we thought we’d hit a seam of iron ore!

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂🤦‍♂️

[@Gearoid35]

Great update Andrew, love to see dust rising.

[@whathasxgottodowithit3919.]

Great to see the English Partridges. they have many predators from the eggs being laid to the stage they are at now, Your stewardship is certainly helping with that.

[@barrywalker3730]

I think I was born to early back in the day we used to have a month hand hoeing beet mangolds etc back aching work now you spray it with herbicide job done

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I was a lad when we did they here!

[@philiproworth6131]

Great video Andrew. I like the way you give detailed explanations of the machinery working and cultivations for the none farmers. When you say normal service will be resumed this year lets just hope the weather in the last nine months is not the new normal. I was up at Newark Golf club last week and i have to say i think the winter crops in your area look better than some of ours here in Derby.; Have a good week.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Cheers Philip, we’re only 10 mins from that golf club. Trouble is now the crops are taller, they are hiding the bare patches!

[@ianmckay1780]

Hello Andrew, As usual very informative waffle, glad you made a point of PTO safety, It used to be the same in my day but was ignored mostly by not clipping guard to stop rotation. Thanks as always. TTFN

[@johnhyde8892]

A great Sunday video Andrew, it's like winter still holding around making conditions tricky still 😮

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

The beet is about 6 weeks late going in but it has to be lifted early so we can get wheat in after, so yield is already hit hard.

[@davidlancaster2642]

Another great update Wox agriculture yard is about 3 miles north of our house small world

[@philippepper8332]

Youngest daughter had a sit in your sprayer yesterday and thought it was great 👍

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Fantastic. Hope you enjoyed the show. I couldn’t make it. My other half Rhonda had organised a clay shoot for the Ambucopter, lives and Lrsn so we were there.

[@user-ob3yi8gs1l]

Another fantastic update Andrew nice kit your ground soon bakes out can understand why you need some rain we used to have a nice big Wiberg one pass peice of kit 40ft springtines and levelling boards behind a John Deere 8340 had two of those with some big kit to go with them. Looking forward to the next update

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Good spring tines those Wiberg’s. 👌

[@1ADP]

Fingers cross for those seedbeds to improve for you against the clock now.

[@markyoull6744]

great stuff hard to beleave hard crust on top and soft underneath

[@andrewlisle310]

Hi Andrew. Great show. Just one thing I happen to notice your dogs eating grass maybe they need worming.😀

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thank you. They are wormed regularly but I’ll keep an eye out. I thought dogs eat grass when they want to be sick?

[@philipsankey988]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I thought it was a sign of rain coming

[@laytonphillips6667]

Nice video andrew, thought you was going to have a heart attack wituh that rut in the ground, tall blonde a sort you out !! Nice and dry now get those heavy land fields driled up lol.😅😅😅😅

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂

[@ncombes6823]

Andrew. Evening !!! Another great video, have you ever tried rolling in front of the power harrow to give the power harrow more to bite into, we did this year on some pea ground and the difference was very noticeable. You are right though need a little rain to help the cultivations which sounds bizarre after the very wet time you have had. Take care and hope all goes well for you and the staff.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

It was so tough, the rolls wouldn’t have done much, cultipress might have been better.

[@keithglover2560]

That looks like a modern triple ' K

[@philipmetcalfe6289]

Baked beans margin must stack up, or are you doing it for the good of british agriculture ? 10 fold increase in acreage ! 8RX seems to float, very impressive. Could we get footage of headland turns with implement raised to compare with traditional wheeled tractor please.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We have to make them stack up but this is the first year with a proper contract, last year we got a fee from Agrii’s r and d pot.

[@robdavis5711]

Trailed versus mounted implements… is one preferable? I’d guess mounted means it’s held up hydraulically, not just dragging behind and using its own weight, so mounted has more control? But trailed deeper, more aggressive?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I always prefer trailed because they don’t bounce around as much and so keep more consistent depth.

[@ericwilson5742]

Would be interesting if you ploughed abit of that ground for the beans to see how it would dry for seedbed

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I can’t understand what everyone’s obsession is with ploughing?!! We did a trial 12 years ago and it was the same as in 2003. One seam full length of the field. You mean for beans to be drilled in 2 weeks time?Not a chance of getting them in for 2 months. Geoff who brought the cultivator in this weeks video said they had clay soil in Northumberland but then when he got on our fields, couldn’t believe how much worse it was than he thought.

[@robertsmith9810]

Andrew i can vouch for your warning about PTO shafts as a young man i accidently knocked the PTO shaft in gear while standing close to DB Tractor and i survived with my trousseau`s being ripped of and rapped round the PTO shaft and badly bruised leg , on the headlands could it be to heavy equipment ?, and yes the ground is very wet this year

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Glad it was nothing more serious.

[@julianchambers8372]

Strewth Andy, There must be large amount of stress on the components on the Maschio unit. I dread to think what would happen if a section failed.!!!!

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Tough going here!

[@TWJW]

Just catching up Andrew but would it be worth drilling the middles of the fields first with the beet and headlands last to take the ruts out that’s how I always used to do it when I was on the planter so the chap in front of me could cultivate/powerharrow my turning wheelings out he used to put a mark in for me where to lift in and out no gps in then and still got it straight

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

The soil is so wet underneath we would have to leave it to weather and dry. This year from cultivation to drilling the whole field took 10 days before it was fit to drill. Doing it on our light land would work like you suggested but we don’t have the same issues there,

[@hectorkidds9840]

How many extra tractor hours and diesel have you had to use this year to get the land ready for planting?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Overall we’re far less than normal because of the number of fields with nothing in but the others have had a lot more!

[@johnhughes2113]

Was that 300tons dry bean! or in the tincooked weight?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Dry!

[@JohnnyMotel99]

Does the sprayer do everything from fertilizer to roundup and do you have to use any special product to clean out the tanks?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Yes, it does everything so we do have to be very careful with some crops so we use a product called all clear. It’s a good point, I’ll do a few mins on that this next week.

[@JohnnyMotel99]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I only have a garden and use hand sprayers, I use regular washing up liquid as the product like roundup seems quite oily, then plenty of water to dilute.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

That will be fine.

[@robertadey4961]

At least I can afford the same spade.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂

[@petergarthwaite6805]

When it didn’t cover the seed did you have to roll it ?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

No, it’s only a few small areas. I did t want to overdo 95% of the field for the 5% not covered and if it does rain this week we should be ok.

[@robertsmith9810]

DOUSE not look a lot different from our springtine cultivator from 60yrs ago apart that we took depth wheels of and controlled depth from tractor seat with MF excellent draft system and the top link had a simple spring ha well we all ways travel in circles , perhaps we may start using our eyes for going straight and a map for finding our destinations

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I don’t think Tom and Reuben would be too happy if we ditched green star!

[@robertsmith9810]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard sort the men from the boys he ha

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂😂

[@robertsmith9810]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard my dad always used to say you can get more in a crooked row🏁✔

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂

[@chrisnichols5208]

Just a question Andrew how do you get sugar beet beet so small I understand how you get corn seed and rape seed but the finished sugar beet is large could you explain it may another time on your waffle a great update as usual

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Sorry, I don’t understand your question. How do we get it so small?

[@chrisnichols5208]

The little sugar beet pink seeds are so small when you put them in the drill are they taken off the main beet plant can’t make out how they are produced hopes this makes sense to you sorry didn’t explain it properly.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@chrisnichols5208 Sugar beet seed is grown in france and it goes to seed and harvested. It’s not the huge root which produces the seed, it’s another stage in the plants development.

[@chrisnichols5208]

Thank you very much for your answer sir

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@chrisnichols5208 👍😊

[@charlesyeo8252]

Your heavy ground is to heavy for root crops, if you are going to continue with beet I would stop planting headlands and have the headland in a SFI to help restructure the ground.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We are usually ok and make it work but this year is challenging. I had thought about SFI’ing beet headlands but I don’t know if the rules allow us to trash them with the harvester when lifting.

[@charlesyeo8252]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard The government have tried to be less draconian with the SFI rules but it has made it difficult to know what you can or can’t do, but I think you could have got away with red clover num3 legume fallow but god knows when the payments would start and finish and probably would have been better established last autumn.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@charlesyeo8252 that’s the trouble, the scheme details are late coming out which means we’ve missed the boat this year.

[@jhlane1977]

Presumably he’s mapping the beet Varieties on the greenstar?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We will mark them on JD ops centre.

[@jhlane1977]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I meant mapping when drilling - most planters can set which section has which variety.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@jhlane1977 no because he didn’t use our maps this time.