(edited)Machinery
Best vertical tillage tool?
What does everyone think the best vertical tillage to is on the market. I’m looking to use it to half chop/cut corn stalks but then also be able to dig deeper and throw and turn more dirt for corn on corn situations for less residue.
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I tied out the new Salford Halo HSD a couple time this year. Very impressive machine. Built heavy, and will be cheaper than other comparable machines. We normally don’t get dry fields for turning over or working in corn but this year we lucked out and I used it in corn trash. Did a good job incorporating everything. Also worked great on soybean ground, I could plant into it if I wanted too. Worked...
I like a field cultivator for working the corn fields. No bearings to replace. Bearings running in dirt always need replacing. You can easily replace the shovels on a field cultivator, compared to replacing all those disks on a vertical tillage machine. If you got a lot of acres, some thing to think about. I chisel plow in the fall. Can do 7 miles per hour, with a 8320R JD tractor, & a 9 shank ...
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had a hrsh ************** for the last 9 years . if not for the roll basket in the back .which we were losing in the field, its as good as any one of them. the newer ones have see have a 2piece flex in the back . left a very nice finish in the back
Have had great luck with Landoll 7431 makes nice if need one pass to chop up stalls or can go deep and incorporate. have many neighbors running them and the newer adjustable gang version to be More aggressive turning soil. Krause is good also To windy out here to keep residue on fields behind the great plains
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We've been very happy with the Kuhn-Krause Excelerator. Single pass in spring after soybeans with no fall tillage. Did corn on corn with it once. Two passes, 15 degrees apart in fall then one pass in spring. For beans following corn you can do one pass in fall and one in spring. We don't have any other major tillage equipment. Mostly no-till soybeans following corn.
john deere 2730. does a very good job for us. Turns a field black after a couple years of good corn on corn. The hydraulic baskets also seem to do a good job when fieldsn are not too wet
If you want a primary VT tool the Case IH Speed Tiller will bury almost anything and leave a uniform seedbed. Have ran it over alfalfa (6” deep), 225 bushel corn (4” deep), and use it following disc ripping for Fescue turf-sod seedbed prep. We’ve used the GP, Case Turbo—till w/Barracuda blades, and an Excellerator and the Speed Disc outperforms them all
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I rented a great plains this spring i liked the job it done but it was not light it had the extra wight package on it and if you hit a wet spot you could hit the hydraulics and watch the tires sink out of sight. i did not like that part about it and liked the rolling basket but the rotarie hoe like thing was a joke all it did was roll up in trash.
depends what you want to accomplish--tillage, residue sizing, etc... have looked at several myself, really like the flexibility of the Turbo Max from great plains.
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Great Plains TerraMax. Has great reviews on AgTalk too.
We are running a vaderstad carrier 6.25xl for the second season now. Terribly bouncy/wavy this spring from last falls work but we took a bunch of time this fall to set it and slowed our speed way down to about 7/8mph. Seems better. At 4” deep it’s all the magnum 290 can handle. We switched to calmer chopping rolls this season and it looks like a very good finish with trashed mixed the full working...
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