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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of drills and planters.
March 12, 2004
Practical test: Maschio/Gaspardo drill combination Not all combi drills cost £30000+ as can be seen on the technical data table at the bottom of this article. Yes you guessed it. This month's profi practical test…
May 9, 2003
USED MACHINERY: First introduced back in 1972, the Becker Aeromat precision pneumatic drill metering system ‘blows’ rather than ‘sucks’ seed into its cell wheels. With no plans for a replacement, this Aeromat theory remains popular…
November 15, 2002
Quality of planting work provided by the 3m wide mechanical seed drills from Amazone, Pöttinger, Howard, Lemken and Sulky came under the profi test spotlight last month. But other key attributes, such as machine design…
October 3, 2002
The first part of our comprehensive drill comparison looks at seed rate adjustment systems and seed placement accuracy. Here we test 3m drills from Amazone, Pöttinger, Howard, Lemken and French maker Sulky
November 10, 2001
Similar to the 6m wide Multi-Seedbed Combination (MSC) launched in 2000, a 4m model joined the Kverneland stable earlier this year. In the spring we put peas and spring barley through this smaller MSC drill,…
September 12, 2001
The Horsch Pronto 3 cultivation combination incorporates rotary cultivator components and a pressure system that transfers weight from the tractor on to the press. Last autumn we operated a first-generation Pronto model, drilling barley, grass…
May 21, 2001
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Last season the six-row Gaspardo ST maize drill was priced at a seemingly very reasonable £8,000 including fertiliser placement and telescopic frame. But could there have been a catch? We were curious as…
February 2, 2001
More even seed placement of rapeseed and cereals: That, Sulky argues, is the reason for buying into SPI Regul-line drill technology, which aligns seeds as they leave the metering unit. This driving impression looks at…
November 3, 2000
Although they first appeared back in 1991, the Väderstad Rapid drill range can trace its ancestry back even further; the Rapid disc and coulter mechanism shares the same basic design as used on Väderstad’s first…
October 6, 2000
Lemken learned quickly from customer feedback after prematurely launching the Solitair pneumatic drill in Germany during 1997. But the revised machine that followed took up successful field challenges in 1999, as our test reveals.
March 21, 1999
PRACTICAL TEST: Marketed on this side of the Channel by Kongskilde UK, the Becker Aeromat maize drill was updated in 1998 with the addition of an extra air nozzle and a longer ejector. Last season…
