Hi everyone -
This is my first post on here - i've been a long time lurker, and I really enjoy the site. I'm located in western ND, where the primary crops are durum, HRSW, canola, flax, peas, lentils, along with other crops like safflower, corn, chickpeas, and flowers that are grown but i do not personally raise.
Anywho, to my situation -
I will be in the market for a new (used or new) drill for next spring. I'm currently running a FC 5000, on 7.5" with a 350 TBH tank. I've gone from NH3 to spreading urea and I really like not handling ammonia.
I've got plenty of neighboring fields to look at, and this has been a great year to look at fields. We had decent seeding conditions, but things have been awesome since - plenty of moisture. I have totally been blown away by what i've been seeing both in my fields and others - the disk drills all around me look simply amazing. The hoe drills, both mine and others, look better than ever but just dont have the evenness about them as disk drills.
In my area, Deere has the market on disk drills. There is great support for them, so really its it the only color i'm interested in. I've been around a fair number of them, and i think plenty on here will agree that while the tool on them is great, the air carts leave much to be desired...
Ive only been around 2 Bourgault carts before - there isn't a lot of them in my area, but I know there is a fair number in neighboring parts of the country. They seem to be "the Cadillac" of carts.
Would it be crazy to entertain putting a Bourgault cart behind a JD drill? Would it work? Any complications that could come from trying to mate them up? Thoughts?
Sorry for the longish post, just trying to share some background.
Thanks!
Owl
This is my first post on here - i've been a long time lurker, and I really enjoy the site. I'm located in western ND, where the primary crops are durum, HRSW, canola, flax, peas, lentils, along with other crops like safflower, corn, chickpeas, and flowers that are grown but i do not personally raise.
Anywho, to my situation -
I will be in the market for a new (used or new) drill for next spring. I'm currently running a FC 5000, on 7.5" with a 350 TBH tank. I've gone from NH3 to spreading urea and I really like not handling ammonia.
I've got plenty of neighboring fields to look at, and this has been a great year to look at fields. We had decent seeding conditions, but things have been awesome since - plenty of moisture. I have totally been blown away by what i've been seeing both in my fields and others - the disk drills all around me look simply amazing. The hoe drills, both mine and others, look better than ever but just dont have the evenness about them as disk drills.
In my area, Deere has the market on disk drills. There is great support for them, so really its it the only color i'm interested in. I've been around a fair number of them, and i think plenty on here will agree that while the tool on them is great, the air carts leave much to be desired...
Ive only been around 2 Bourgault carts before - there isn't a lot of them in my area, but I know there is a fair number in neighboring parts of the country. They seem to be "the Cadillac" of carts.
Would it be crazy to entertain putting a Bourgault cart behind a JD drill? Would it work? Any complications that could come from trying to mate them up? Thoughts?
Sorry for the longish post, just trying to share some background.
Thanks!
Owl