DRIVING IMPRESSION: Kverneland has developed a hydraulicfolding version of its Kultistrip tillage tool, which does what it says on the tin — cultivate a strip of ground. And there’s even the option to incorporate slurry. We caught up with the injector in Luxembourg, to find out how easy it is to set up and how it copes with trash
Kverneland has been making a 4.5m and 6.0m Kultistrip cultivator since 2014, but they’re fixed frame units. For modern-day farming, that’s a bit of a non-starter. So, it was back to the drawing board to come up with a hydraulicfolding version.
We mounted the new, folding 6.0m strip till cultivator on a Holmer TerraVariant to apply slurry ahead of sugar beet. The test machine was kitted out with 12 rows on a 50cm spacing, though Kverneland points out that a 45cm spacing is possible … even down to 37cm if you remove the row clearing stars. It’s worth noting that an uneven number of rows is also an option.
The frame is rated for up to 650hp, and to work with this sizeable chunk of power the 3.0m wide frame behind the tanker is built from two 180x180x12mm lumps of box section. In the middle between these two tubes is the 180x180x10mm frame for the wings. The individual tools in each row are maintenance-free, while all pivot points on the parallelogram frame sport composite bearings. In addition, each 250kg assembly can be weighted up with another 70-210kg by moving a spring to one of three positions. This is located in the middle of the parallel linkage between the Pitman arms.
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