I like a TBT cart better than TBH cart. There is less draft with a TBT and less tires to worry about.
Flexicoil tow between
We are running a flexicoil 2340 tow behind cart and want to go to a bigger cart.
Our farm has areas that are fairly steep and we have had problems with the cart dragging the bar down the hill quite badly. We are also starting to get some cracking on the back of our st820 bar. My question is would we be better with a tow between cart looking at a Flexicoil 4460 tow between with duals . I have watched some videos of farmers in hills and a setup like that seem to follow the contour better. The down side would be vision from the tractor as we usually have a lot of stubble but I guess we could get around that with cameras. Any comments would be greatly appreciated
Our farm has areas that are fairly steep and we have had problems with the cart dragging the bar down the hill quite badly. We are also starting to get some cracking on the back of our st820 bar. My question is would we be better with a tow between cart looking at a Flexicoil 4460 tow between with duals . I have watched some videos of farmers in hills and a setup like that seem to follow the contour better. The down side would be vision from the tractor as we usually have a lot of stubble but I guess we could get around that with cameras. Any comments would be greatly appreciated
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Run a tow between 3380 cart in super steep country. Can’t imagine running a tow behind. And you will definitely want tools.
Not sure how steep your hills are, but I have moderate hills and found that the flexicoil and deere carts had front castor wheels that just swiveled and the weight of the cart was pushing the front of the cart and the drill down the hill. Moving to the bourgault wagon style cart really helped reduce the downhill sliding on my airseeder years ago. The cart wagon style hitch has minimal downhill pull on the drill on moderately steep stuff (not that steep stuff in the NW USA).
Perhaps a case 580 tow behind would work, as I think it is a wagon style.
Perhaps a case 580 tow behind would work, as I think it is a wagon style.
Our hill country is up to around 20% slope in places which for our area is pretty extreme. Lots of flat country in South Australia and most farmers have been running tow behinds until the last few years, now there is a shift to larger carts and a lot are going to tow between. As I said in the first post we can still get a new Flexicoil 4460 tow between for next seeding if we get in quick and the section control would be an advantage in our smaller pieces. l am a bit sceptical as to how well the section control will work but more are getting into it locally and don’t seem to be having many problems. Thanks again for your comments.
I'm tempted to go tow between too. Couple days ago my cart pushed me sideways on a hill and jammed drill hitch tight against my tire. That's just with a 340 bushel cart. Also don't do a great job seeding across side hills cause it dogtracks so bad.
Some of the big carts have brakes. I'm tempted to say that after a certain size they are mandatory here in Canada. Definitely helps when making turns gpoing down steep slopes.
I only think I farm hills!For hills a TBT cart is the only way you are going to stay on the hill. It helps provide hitch weight and not dead weight on the back. It is basically the only cat you will see in our steep hills area unless it is built in the toolbar to carry the tanks.
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Hills can be challenging at times, we have jackknifed several pieces of machinery over the years and bent a couple of drawbars. Rainfall is the attraction where we are either side of the range we farm rainfall drops off pretty quick. Dealers at times don’t understand why off the shelf machines don’t work and need to be modified to handle the slopes
How does the cart pivot within the hitch of the drill?Sometimes you just wonder why you farm big hills. Stopped to back up and still slid. Once it stopped I thought just lift the toolbar a little to straighten up to back out and it just pushes it further down the hill.
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Spacing?
Any inline, close up opener, packer tire pics?
Not on the post, the old prasco drills put the drill where the hitch was, why not now?
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