Ezee-On Tandem Disc.
According to Ezee-On, the test for a disc is clear cut. “When you pull into a field of stubble, old pasture or slough bottoms, you are looking for superior blade penetration and smooth fields with no plugging, ridging or riding over rough spots,” the company says. It also says its newest disc, the 8700-LTF, meets that test.
Ezee-on sales manager Trevor Jubenville says the 8700-LTF has a floating hitch for less plugging, ridging and riding. Nor does it need front gauge wheels to cut level and straight. The 8700-LTF has heavy-duty gangs, with extreme-duty bearings with 22,800 lb. load ratings and a seven year limited warranty. The 8700-LTF comes in widths up to 42 feet with nine inch, 10.5 inch or 12 inch blade spacings with 26-, 28-or 30-inch blades, notched or smooth.
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The Ezee-On 8700-LTF is built on an eight-inch by four-inch frame, which equals 700-lbs./ft. weight class. Ezee-On maintains it’s an excellent primary tillage tool for discing up heavy stubble, plowing down old pasture or grass or managing Bt corn residue. The LTF design on wider machines means wings fold hydraulically to keep transport height under 14 feet.
.John Deere Disk Ripper
John Deere says “shatter the yield barrier” and rid your fields of compaction with their 512 Disk Ripper used for primary tillage. The 512 is a proven design that’s been in the market since the 1990s. According to John Deere’s primary tillage marketing specialist David Wendt, the 512 is the simplest, easiest-to-operate disk ripper on the market. The 512 ripper uses the disk-shank-disk configuration with the ripper standards located between the disk gangs instead of behind them. There are four options with the 512 disc ripper, from 12.5 to 22.5 feet, and with five to nine shanks.
The Deere units comes with four choices of points. There are heavy-duty steel ripper points recommended in non-abrasive and rocky conditions. The half-covered chrome plate points are recommended for hard abrasive soils where regular points wear out fast. There are also full-cover chrome plate points recommended for hard abrasive soils. The Laser Rip Extreme Points are recommended for rocky conditions, where their exclusive cast material provides high resistance to rock chipping.
The 512 Disk Ripper has a crank-adjust single-point depth control, easy to set on the front of the machine. The rear gangs can be set for two positions for aggressive disking in heavy residue as well as lighter soils with less residue.
www.johndeere.com Increasingly across Western Canada, farmers are looking to the disc for their primary tillage, says Alberta manufacturer Kello- Bilt. Kello-Bilt offers four different models of their 225TSW series, ranging from 18 feet to 23 feet wide with approximate weights from 15,500 lbs. to 17,290 lbs. Horsepower requirements for the 225TSW tandem wing disc range from 160 hp to 220 hp.
The 225TSW is built heavy to handle working in rugged conditions, including where rocks and small stumps are present. The six-inch by four-inch frame is 3/8″ high-strength steel, fully welded and reinforced. The design features back-to-back tapered roller bearings in heavy ductile cast housings with floating Duo-Cone seals. The bearings operate in a 90W gear oil bath for constant lubrication.
The 5/16″ blades are 26-inch notched discs front and rear, although 28-inch notched disc blades are available as an option, as are smooth blades for the rear gangs.
Salford Mouldboard Plows.
Salford offers many different primary tillage implements but has also bucked the trend in this market with the 8200 series mouldboard plow. Jim Boak, national sales manager for Salford Farm Machinery, says the plow isn’t new to the market or in design. However, he said, there has been a rapid increase in demand for mouldboard plows to do primary tillage, especially in Eastern Canada for producers growing corn on corn.
Salford’s 8200 series is a high-acreage, high-residue plow available with seven to 14 bottoms. The largest plow has six furrows on the front half and eight furrows on the rear half of the plow.
The hitch on the 8200 series can be set for in-furrow or on-land use. European style or North American IH style mouldboards can be used. The hinge connecting the two plows articulates and pivots, which means it not only flexes up and down to follow contours, but hinges in the middle to allow for tight headland turns. On the 8212, the rear plow is a model 4200 semi-mount plow, which can be quickly unhitched and used as a standard semi-mount plow with a smaller tractor for finishing irregular fields and headlands and backfilling the furrow. The coulters are forward set, which opens the throat for maximum clearance and residue flow. According to Salford, this frame design is almost impossible to plug.
Case IH Ecolo-Tiger Disk Ripper.
Case IH says its Ecolo-Tiger 870 is the most aggressive residue sizing and mixing option on the market today. It is ideal for sizing Bt corn residue to capture nutrient value and sizing soil clods for a smoother seedbed. It comes in multiple working widths, from 14 to 26 feet, with power requirements from 252 hp all the way up to 520 hp.
The Ecolo-Tiger 870 comes equipped with patented Tiger Points on 24-inch centres to fracture hardpan soils. These Tiger points also relocate soil through a unique lifting, twisting and rolling action. All the shanks run full depth to move hardpan and improve drainage and water holding capability.
There is a single-rank, opposing disk in front, which leaves no ridges in the field. These disks have outstanding stalk cutting qualities, which leads to superior residue flow. This promotes water infiltration and reduces runoff and soil erosion. This ripping action is followed by a double reel, which sizes large clods and levels the soil. The double reel baskets are close-coupled to a welded frame, helping to withstand shock. There is a 250-hour service interval for simple maintenance, and poly bushings on all pivot points eliminate the need for greasing.
