00:00So here we've got Paul Ryan, we're out of Grassflat today.
00:03Paul, we're having a bit of a look at some of the setups here.
00:05What do you see as some of the key advantages?
00:08Well, the key advantages of Ryan double disc,
00:10I've designed it to fit 40 different machines,
00:13so I've got the market pretty well covered.
00:15And here we are with an Aussie-built machine,
00:17a Gason scary tool.
00:20Plenty of weight, plenty of strength, well made.
00:25All you've got to do is slot under a bolt here, a pin here,
00:29slide the leg out, pat the dog.
00:32Pat the dog, even the dog knows he's on a winner.
00:36And then you can put this leg in.
00:39The secret of ours is that you can,
00:43the sewing boot's in the front of the axle,
00:45so no mud can come and plug the boot up.
00:48And you can double shoot with it.
00:50Chris here has got a second boot on the back.
00:55Yeah, so it's pretty universal,
00:57not many discs can double shoot.
00:59And you've got the axle systems,
01:02it's inch and a quarter or 30 mil.
01:05And here, so plenty of strength,
01:07carries them every 400 hours.
01:10And they're an offset disc.
01:12You can see the disc here,
01:14in an inch and a quarter or four to the plane disc.
01:16So he acts like a caulder himself,
01:18and this cuts and tears.
01:20So we can really get through most any type of stubble.
01:24And they're 18 inch.
01:26So...
01:27All right, well, thanks for that.
01:28That gives us a little bit of an insight on how things work.
01:31So here we've got Chris Smith here.
01:32He's ran this sort of setup for around the last four seasons.
01:36Chris, what have been the pros and cons of switching over
01:38from a more traditional tine sort of setup?
01:40Yeah, well, we had a straight shank tine on here,
01:43which is the standard gayson setup.
01:44And originally, I was thinking about putting caulders on
01:48and I came across...
01:51I was wanting to put caulders on to deal with
01:54trash levels and...
01:55Stubble residues.
01:56Stubble residues and summer weeds that,
01:59you know, still existed coming into cropping.
02:03And then I got chatting to Paul
02:05and for not much more money,
02:06I could cut over to a disc system,
02:10which was what I was sort of thinking of,
02:13I suppose, in the long term.
02:15And so we put these on
02:19and it made a lot of difference
02:20in terms of managing stubble residues.
02:22Like we could just pull straight through.
02:25Canola stubbles,
02:28any standing wheat stubble is not a problem.
02:30And with that early season stuff behind us,
02:33we've got a paddock of forage
02:35you put in post-fires this year.
02:38You put that in super early
02:39and when dirt was reasonably hard
02:42and got through it, no worries, you said.
02:43Yeah, no worries.
02:44And, you know, you can...
02:46Well, usually with the tines,
02:48we're pulling the tractors,
02:51we're sort of maxing out at,
02:52you know, 95s to 100s all the time.
02:55But once we've gone to tines,
02:57we know the machine's back to operating
02:59about 80% and power usage
03:02and we're going a couple of k's faster.
03:04So more efficient.
03:05Yeah, more efficient
03:06and getting across the country
03:08a bit quicker as well.
03:09And just finally,
03:10obviously some people are a bit nervy
03:11with the discs given sort of wet conditions
03:13and gumming up.
03:14Do you find the offset sort of help with that?
03:16Yeah, yep.
03:18It's been...
03:19performs well.
03:20Like it still cuts residues in the wet
03:22and the scrapers clean the mud away
03:27from the ports of the grain chute.
03:30So, yeah, it works well.
03:32Let's do it again.
03:32Let's take a look from the older people.
03:34Once I've started it,
03:34I've got to go.
03:34I'm just going to hold it again.
03:35Now, let's do it again.
03:36I'll try it again.
03:36Yeah.
03:36Yeah.
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