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    Making a drill fit: Versatile shoulders drilling load

    Jan 14, 2022 5 minutes
    Jane Carley

    Matching drill widths to other equipment in the fleet is always a head scratcher, and when AC Stubbs and Sons traded up from a 24m sprayer to a 36m Bateman RB35, Mark Stubbs knew he had to do something about his 8.0m Väderstad Rapid drill.

    “A 9.0m drill looked to work best, but simply extending our existing drill wouldn’t have worked because of the press wheel configuration,” he explains. “So we decided to rethink the whole design.”

    First step was to get the extra width in the form of some coulter frame wings, from local used machinery dealer Boccasion, which was breaking a 4.0m Rapid.

    “By welding these on we could make the drill 9.0m, but I also needed to revise the seed

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