Old Australian Caterpillar adds

do you want this thread deleted since there is a second with same information?

what I was going to do was have one thread with Cat adds from Cat Australia and the other thread with stuff using cat machines but not from Cat Australia so if we can leave both threads going I would appreciate that thanks

Paul

todays adds or is that yesterdays adds

Michael's D 4 tool bar maybe ??????????

Cool ads, those are pretty serious tires on those drills, must be for off road seeding.

thanks for sharing

Bruce P

Bruce thanks for the interest in Australia we call seeders combines and what you most likely call a combine we call a header reason been that the combine is for combination of seed fertilizer and back in the day we use the combines for cultivation and the header was because we only take the head of wheat or barley ect we just take the bit that we need were as other parts of the world take the whole crop to ground level this has changed a bit of later years more people roll up straw I do stand to be corrected on this

Paul

Bruce I was thinking about the tyres all our combines have large tyres on them except Conner Shea brand it gives a lot more accurate measurements with the amount of seed and fert and makes them nice and easy to pull or at least thats my understanding seeya
Paul

Hello Paul, it's always interesting to hear what other areas call there stuff. It looks as if D4s were quite popular over there, I think there were at least a dozen just on our small ridge at one time. Only the really big wheels had D6s.

In the seventh picture above, he is seeding right into stubble? Direct seeding must have started early on there. The last 10 - 15 years have seen a large increase in direct seeding here. I put in my first direct seeded crop this spring, so far so good. I plan to seed my fall wheat directly also.

My sister worked on a farm at Prosipine (spelling) in the late 80's. Is that anywhere near you? I think they raised mainly sugar cane.

Bruce

Hi Bruce,
I think the first time I direct drilled was around 1980, and it rapidly took off. There's quite a strong no-till movement in N.Z. for soil and economic reasons.