SPIKE and Tim Orr are happy with the sowing workhorse they've modified at "Wilga", Cooks Myalls.
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It's an old 10 metre-wide Alfarm chisel plough which they converted to an airseeder.
"We bought it for a plough but thought it might be good for trash, so we put a boot on it and knife-edge point and press-wheels," said Tim Orr, pictured above with Spike and the modified airseeder.
They have successfully sowed with it for the past five years.
"It's (from the) 1980s but does a really great job," Mr Orr said.
The brothers also use an 18-metre Jetstream boom spray for weed cleaning in paddocks.
The Alfarm convertible has a 23 centimetre spacing and the Orrs sow wheat and barley at 50 kilograms per hectare with an average of 70kg/ha of monoammoniam phosphate (MAP) fertiliser.
"We sow canola at between 2.8 to 3kg/ha," Mr Orr said.
Mark Griggs
Journalist for The Land at Dubbo.
Journalist for The Land at Dubbo.
