Operator`s manual

Operation
Simplicity Australia Page 3.14 Version 1.0
Double or Triple Shooting and Splitting
Double or Triple Shooting and Splitting are techniques used to improve the practice
of deep banding and side dressing as well as separating or mixing seed and
fertilisers to meet specific requirements.
Double or Triple Shooting refers to the practice of sowing seed and fertiliser
through separate air lines so that they are placed separately in the soil.
Splitting refers to a variation of Double or Triple Shooting where seed and fertiliser
is sown through separate air lines with a chosen percentage of fertiliser mixed with
the seed and the balance of the fertiliser remains separate or can be mixed with
another fertiliser.
Traditional double shooting utilises twice as many planting outlets as conventional
sowing. Triple shooting further increases the number of outlets required three fold.
Double or triple shooting and splitting requires different positioning of metering
vanes according to the split of product required.
The illustration below of a triple bin Simplicity Air Seeder shows triple shooting to
the cultivator with small seeds box option fitted.
The illustration of ‘one pass application’ (opposite page) shows the product flow
through the metering units with the directional vanes positioned to direct the
product into separate air lines.
Seed and ‘P’ fertiliser are placed separately in the soil. The option of splitting seed
and fertiliser will allow a selected percentage of ‘P’ fertiliser to be placed with the
seed. Double sowing boots can be used to place ‘P’ fertiliser below the seed using
the same cultivator tyne.
‘N’ fertiliser and small seeds are shown spread by deflector plates at the front and
rear of the cultivator respectively.
Simplicity Triple Bin Air Seeders offer unique sowing control options:
 3 main bins plus small seeds box option
 All products can be metered to separate lines (as illustrated) by simply varying
the position of the metering vanes for specific placement deep banding, side
dressing and separating seed and fertiliser.
 Seed and fertilisers can be selectively split and mixed in specific lines by simply
changing directional levers or vanes on the metering unit front panel.