Driving impression: Kverneland NG-S 301/DA-X combi unit Way back in 2002, Kverneland launched its DA-X air seeder, to be followed just a year later by the NG-S 101 power harrow. Couple up the pair, and the result is the harrow/drill combination featured here – in all its red and green glory. We operated the combi last autumn across a range of soil types
What is there left to say about the old power harrow/drill combi? Not much, it would appear. Or not much that hasn’t already been said on previous occasions.
Power hungry, metal hungry, soil structure damaging – these are all familiar criticisms that have been, and continue to be, thrown at the combi concept. Yet for all of that, the power harrow/drill is still used to plant a sizeable proportion of the UK’s combinable crop area and it remains very much in demand. So it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to learn that machinery manufacturers are still investing in refining this well-established design even further. It lives on.
One such combi design tweaker is Kverneland, with its new and heavyduty NG-S power harrow. Currently the company sells the range in 3m and 4m working widths for tractors up to 250hp, though wider ‘folders’ are expected to follow.
In terms of design detail, there are a number of points of interest. The main trough, for example, is tough and self-supporting, and this robust nature is further enhanced by the widely spaced taper roller bearings on the tine rotors and the machine’s hardened gears.
