Developed in collaboration with Devon farmer James Lee, Grange now has a strip-till cultivator in its line-up.
Designed for use in establishing maize, sugar-beet and vegetable row-crops, the Strip-Till Preparator has an opening disc up front to cut through the surface and minimise disturbance from the following legs. Set in a staggered formation, these typically run 200-300mm deep, providing a lifting and boiling effect.
Mounted on a separate toolbar, pairs of wavy discs flank each leg limiting soil throw. Intriguingly these slide hydraulically forwards and backwards to vary the amount of soil retained in the cultivated strip. Following close behind are further pairs of wavy discs tasked with creating a decent tilth.
Finally Guttler Prisma packer rings firm the strip of soil to leave a weather-proof finish. A 3.0m version with six legs for 500mm row spacing starts at £24,000 with shear-bolts – hydraulic auto-reset adds a further £3,000.
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