Cultivate and drill unit after more than passing interest
Cultivate and drill unit after more than passing interest
COST-CONSCIOUS Danes are as aware as the rest of us that conventional plough, till and drill systems eat into budgets.
Recent years have seen them presented with various one-pass cultivator and drill systems not all of which have been instant hits on the home market.
Latest contender comes from Dal-Bo, which, with its 4m AXR-H Discdrill, believes it may attract more than a passing interest from growers both at home and abroad.
From the front, attached to the tractors linkage arms is a pneumatic drill sourced from German manufacturer Rauch. Seed is metered from a 1350-litre hopper and blown to the coulters positioned at the rear of the 10m long machine.
Between the hopper and the drill is the main cultivating element – a set of heavy disc harrows which can be hydraulically angled to provide the required degree of aggressiveness. Depth control is the task of the ribbed press wheel which runs at the rear of the disc harrows, just behind two transport wheels.
A distribution head delivers the seed to the twin-disc coulters which is then covered by a set of finger tines.
Dal-Bo, aware that not all soil can be directly cultivated and drilled, has designed the cultivator/drill so that the drill and its coulters can be removed and used as a conventional drill. Similarly, the disc and press can be used independently as a pre-pass on stubble land before cultivating and drilling at a later date.
Recommended power requirement is put at 150hp for the unit, which costs about £30,000. *