Pretty much new from the ground up, the only familiar components on the Lemken Solitair 25 are its OptiDisc doubledisc coulters. We had a chance to sow some oats with a 6.0m pre-production model.
Doesn’t time fly. It’s been nearly 20 years since Lemken started producing the Solitair pneumatic drill after purchasing Hassia in 1996. About time for an update, then. Admittedly there have been additions over the years, but the new generation Solitair 25 featured here is seen as a more dramatic shake-up
of the range. In fact, the only major component carried over from the Solitair 9 is the proven OptiDisc double-disc coulter, along with the same choice of either mechanical or hydraulic pressure control.
The KA model designation means this drill can be married up with either the semi-mounted Zirkon power harrow, Kompaktor/Kristal tine machines, or the Heliodor/Rubin 9 disc cultivators — so pretty much all of the tilling bases are covered. Incidentally, one key change Lemken has made to its cultivator
range is to now offer 700 tyres and not exceed a 3.00m overall width; previously this tyre option made the cultivator a less tarmacfriendly 3.30m wide.
Another change moving forward is doing away with the four-point linkage for carrying the drill and going with a conventional three-point arrangement that allows the cultivator to be used with a precision drill such as the firm’s own Azurit. This switch in linkage thinking also means depth control adjustment is much faster, with just the one top link to set.
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