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Fritz Maurer

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I just picked up this drill and I had a couple questions. I was reading an on-line operator's manual, and they were talking about "bulldozing" and "Hair-pinning" trash in conventional and minimum tillage situations. What is hair-pinning? I thought I might like to try skip-row planting wheat that is so popular in this area, Do I need to remove the unused openers, or will this alter the planter's ability to no-till? Regarding the spring tooth harrow on the rear, is this used during a no-till operation, like in an old hayfield for instance? Is there a particular type of soybean for no-till or will any roundup ready bean work? Thanks, Fritz
 
I have a crust buster 3800 no till rig, they use the term hair pinning when you are planting thru old crop residue and the coulter do not cut through it and end up with seed not at the right plant depth. my drill does better than some no till rigs but still see some seeds on top the ground. down the road wanting to go to split row planter.
 
No you will want to raise the spring tooth up out of the ground or remove it for no tilling or you will have a wad so big you can't drive over it. Exaggerated some. The hair pinning is the trash dragging like a hair pin on the coulters seed openers and such. for the wads think about bean trash with a spike behind a field cultivator in the fall to plant wheat it will plug then roll over it and leave a big gob or wad in a pile to go over later.
 
Hair pinning is when the trash is not cut and is pushed into the seed trench by the coulter--Thus you have trash below your seed so there is nowhere for the new roots to grow. It occurs when your coulters are worn and dull or set too far apart.---Tee
 
I use a harrow all the time no-tilling. If it is rolling trash, you have teeth set to straight. Lay them almost flat, gets bars closer to the ground and lays all the last years cornstalks over. Also helps cover some escaped seed.
 
I owned one and the advice given is all good advice. I always planted 1.5in deep so escapes, i didn't worry about and removed my harrow. if you wanna run a harrow, it works, if you don't wanna run one, that works also!
 
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