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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of ploughs and cultivators.
November 15, 2007
Practical test: Lemken VariTansanit 8 hybrid plough Like so many crossbred machines, the Lemken Tansanit plough is a hybrid packed with anomalies. It looks and weighs like a semi-mounted model, yet pulls like a fully…
July 21, 2007
Practical test: Grégoire Besson Discordon 4.2m DXRV-HD cultivator For the fourth of profi's detailed one-pass cultivator tests we profile Grégoire Besson's 4.2m Discordon, which shouldn't have too much left to prove as it has been…
June 15, 2006
Driving impression: Lemken VariTansanit plough Hybrid plough exhibits extra vigour There's nothing too revolutionary with the view that two contrasting machine configurations invariably have their respective good points and bad points. But if, somehow, a…
December 16, 2005
Practical test: Kverneland Stubble F CTS450 cultivator Big Daddy of the one-pass stubble browners Over the past two autumns, profi has carried out one-pass cultivator tests, thus reflecting the move by many arable farms into…
December 24, 2004
Practical test: Väderstad TopDown 500 cultivator With cereal prices languishing at £60/t for many the prospect of spending £40000+ on a cultivator would seem to border on the profligate. Not at all say the likes…
October 15, 2004
USED MACHNERY: Kverneland is not alone in producing what looks to be, on the surface, a bewildering array of new plough types and options. Break the various offerings down into their basic constituent parts, however,…
January 9, 2004
Driving impression: Lemken Thorit 9/600 KUA tine cultivator Sign of the tines – or discs? We're supposed to live in a revolutionary farm kit world yet it never ceases to amaze how old ideas come…
January 2, 2004
Back in the early 1980s, Simba was producing toolcarriers and trailed cultivators designed to reduce the cost of reclaiming land and establishing crops. Its current Solo cultivators have come on a long way since those…
September 12, 2003
Previewed at the Cereals event, the Väderstad 442 cultivator is a cross-breed, a cross between the firm’s Carrier disc/press and Cultus tine machines. Andrew Faulkner tried out a 5m wide prototype example on sandy loam…
March 20, 2003
PRACTICAL TEST: Last autumn we put Kverneland’s seven-furrow PB Variomat 100 semi-mounted plough through a detailed practical test – to find out how KV’s slatted mouldboards perform. Overall we were largely impressed, as becomes self-evident…
November 15, 2002
With its double star roller said to be capable of producing seedbeds in heavy soils in a single pass, Rau’s ground-driven Sterntiller was heralded as an alternative to pto-driven tillage equipment. Last autumn we put…
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