You sir have inspired me hats off to you. I am in the process of finishing up my 8 row strip till unit for the 2020 season. Thanks alot maple grove farms
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 i used a homemade 8 row cultivator tool bar. It had some weston cultivators i somewhat copy cated bigham brothers row units with my own twist. But it all started with you video about just giving it a try and keeping the coffee shop at the coffe shop. After watching all your videos and 4000 others i made my row units if i can figure out how to attach pictures id like to post a few.
How did the end result look? Im looking at building a coulter rig from a deere planter row unit using lilliston rolling cultivator baskets. Id like to get a mole knife and get liquid down around 6 inches, stir the trench about 2 inches over that, and leave a nice well rounded berm on top. Theory being, get the fert down where the mature, reproductive roots will grow to, above that have a fine, residue free seedbed, then a nice berm that will either get packed with my planter if used in the spring, or gradually mellow over winter if the strips are made in the fall. I like the looks of that hiniker unit for both implementing a knife and running a good amt of coulters... havent quite got the engineering figured out to make a planter unit carry all of my desires. Thanks.
Good question good points. I will try to make another video to explain the money and time savings. the berm is just the little black strip that we are making
Hey, so if a guy wanted to put fert down, how would he go with it? I'm up in west central Manitoba and id like to get in to strip till and also put my fert down at same time! no one does anything with strip tillage up here. was thinking of using a old deep tiller to make one with shanks? any advice ?
So I’m curious, suppose you were to talk a smaller air seeder unit like a case cyclo, and have the strip till units as your openers, would you be able to plant and till in the same pass?
Could I ask if you could back up a bit? I'm from the UK! - we cannot grow soy beans here and only grow maize as a livestock forage crop as silage or as a source material for biodigester plants as we do not have a suitable climate. I have an understanding that strip till is a mechanical process that some people use in your country to prepare a small seedbed for a crop prior to planting a crop via no till to (possibly) clear crop debris away from the row to be planted. However why do it in the first place as it sounds as though it will be relatively slow, another costly tractor operation and will need significant horse power to pull that tool? Also what please is a berm? A couple of quick sketch diagrams (or perhaps a still photograph or two of another machine) might have helped clarify what you were explaining in this video.
You sir have inspired me hats off to you. I am in the process of finishing up my 8 row strip till unit for the 2020 season. Thanks alot maple grove farms
Lol thanks for the kind words. What did you get for strip machine?
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 i used a homemade 8 row cultivator tool bar. It had some weston cultivators i somewhat copy cated bigham brothers row units with my own twist. But it all started with you video about just giving it a try and keeping the coffee shop at the coffe shop. After watching all your videos and 4000 others i made my row units if i can figure out how to attach pictures id like to post a few.
How did the end result look? Im looking at building a coulter rig from a deere planter row unit using lilliston rolling cultivator baskets. Id like to get a mole knife and get liquid down around 6 inches, stir the trench about 2 inches over that, and leave a nice well rounded berm on top. Theory being, get the fert down where the mature, reproductive roots will grow to, above that have a fine, residue free seedbed, then a nice berm that will either get packed with my planter if used in the spring, or gradually mellow over winter if the strips are made in the fall. I like the looks of that hiniker unit for both implementing a knife and running a good amt of coulters... havent quite got the engineering figured out to make a planter unit carry all of my desires. Thanks.
I don't know if a John Deere planter row unit would handle a knife 6 in down
The Hiniker was an easy build And it worked really well.
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 thinking possibly run it behind a large coulter, mounted directly to the bar ahead of the unit
That is the same econo cultivator I use for strip tiller. I have a 12 row. Six years using it and no broken parts. They are built extra heavy.
nice glad its working. i like it but i need to do something better for going into sod.
Good question good points. I will try to make another video to explain the money and time savings.
the berm is just the little black strip that we are making
Hey, so if a guy wanted to put fert down, how would he go with it? I'm up in west central Manitoba and id like to get in to strip till and also put my fert down at same time! no one does anything with strip tillage up here. was thinking of using a old deep tiller to make one with shanks? any advice ?
There are many old air carts like you guys use on your air drills,
Or you would look for like a Montague fertilizer cart
I'm using bourgault.
So I’m curious, suppose you were to talk a smaller air seeder unit like a case cyclo, and have the strip till units as your openers, would you be able to plant and till in the same pass?
I dont know if I would.want my seed that close. I think you would be better off to the side of the row or under it
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 are you thinking having the seed drop off to the side on a strip till unit or in a completely different pass?
@jacobchambers8036 for me the seeding is another pass and then the seed goes right on top of the berm from the strip till
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 ok I appreciate it
Jon have you finished this project yet. I would like to look at if you could do a video on it, Eric
Oh yeah. I have videos of it running
ua-cam.com/video/jY0gNsOfoPo/v-deo.html
Could I ask if you could back up a bit? I'm from the UK! - we cannot grow soy beans here and only grow maize as a livestock forage crop as silage or as a source material for biodigester plants as we do not have a suitable climate.
I have an understanding that strip till is a mechanical process that some people use in your country to prepare a small seedbed for a crop prior to planting a crop via no till to (possibly) clear crop debris away from the row to be planted.
However why do it in the first place as it sounds as though it will be relatively slow, another costly tractor operation and will need significant horse power to pull that tool? Also what please is a berm?
A couple of quick sketch diagrams (or perhaps a still photograph or two of another machine) might have helped clarify what you were explaining in this video.
Here is a video of my old roll unit running. you can see how it's creating a berm and clearing the trash. ua-cam.com/video/ndfFYRXMPfM/v-deo.html