160-foot drill from Australia

I'm working on an article about a 160-foot drill from an Australian company called Multi-Farming Systems. The drill has 96 shanks on 20-inch spacing. Each shank requires four horsepower to pull at normal depth, so you need a 400-hp tractor to pull it. You probably want a little extra for the tank.

Kris Trevilyan describes the unit in a video on the Multi-Farming Systems website. The drill has independent-suspension shanks with individual on-row packing pressure, just like many of the drills now built in Western Canada. Trevilyan says the Queensland-area farmers who would buy this drill have massive fields where it takes an hour and a half to drive up and back at 7.5 km/h. This photo, supplied by Wallaby Productions, shows the 160-foot drill in one of these very large fields.