The Omega drill has been in the Bednar line-up since 2011, and today it’s sold in widths from 3.0m to 9.0 with seedonly as well as grain and fert variants. Focus here is on the 6.0m 6000L; that’s the seed-only model to which we had a rather muddy introduction back in the August 2021 magazine. Not wanting to give the game away, but the Czech design team can be justifiably proud of the mechanical engineering of the test drill. Yet there is more to any drill than just the hardware, so let’s go back to the beginning.

T he Omega drill has been in the Bednar line-up since 2011, and today it’s sold in widths from 3.0m to 9.0 with seedonly as well as grain and fert variants. Focus here is on the 6.0m 6000L; that’s the seed-only model to which we had a rather muddy introduction back in the August 2021 magazine.

Not wanting to give the game away, but the Czech design team can be justifiably proud of the mechanical engineering of the test drill. Yet there is more to any drill than just the hardware, so let’s go back to the beginning.

Our Omega was supplied with a Cat III lower link coupler and fixed drawbar. Hitched up to a Fendt 724 on 650 rear boots, we could turn through almost 90°. A K80 spoon hitch with a hydraulically height adjustable drawbar is available as an option for £624. A practical parking stand and colour-coded Kennfixx couplers on the hydraulic hoses make attachment much easier. Plus, there is a sticker indicating the individual hydraulic functions.

The lockable storage box on the drawbar acts as home to the various metering wheels and the scales for calibrating — all of this is convenient stuff. Overall, the Omega drill has a very modular design. For example, it can be fitted with a clod board and a front tyre packer ahead of the discs, which was the configuration on our test machine (£10,836). The levelling board consists of 26 spring-loaded paddles (8mm x 10cm), spaced 23cm apart. You can move the wear plates down a hole on the tine to account for wear. For convenience, the levelling board has hydraulic adjustment, although Bednar should improve the lift-out height, which we reckon is not always sufficient on the fixedheight drawbar.

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