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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of ploughs and cultivators.
February 1, 2013
Anyone thinking that a second-hand Väderstad TopDown will save huge sums over buying new might be in for quite a shock. The TopDown is a fashionable bit of kit, with used demand typically outstripping supply…
February 9, 2012
Not even ploughs are escaping the world of electronic wizardry, with Lemken’s Juwel 8 packing a healthy dollop of technology to ease the task of setting up the machine and provide the option of on-the-move…
October 13, 2011
Launched in 2001, Kverneland five- to seven-furrow LO shearbolt and EO auto-reset ploughs offer on-land/in-the-furrow working positions, suiting them to both wheeled and tracked tractors. James de Havilland picks out some of the more important…
October 8, 2010
Practical test: Lemken Karat 9/400 KU cultivator Lemken debuted its Karat mounted cultivator at Agritechnica 2007. Designed to replace the existing Thorit range, the first production Karat models reached the market in 2009, which was…
March 19, 2010
Rabe SpeedBird semi-mounted cultivator The name of this 7.50m wide, semi-mounted cultivator suggests high work rates. To see just how high and what's in store for potential SpeedBird users, we landed it in a field…
May 14, 2008
Sumo Trio cultivator: … would seem to be how most users rate the Sumo Trio mounted cultivator if current sales are taken as a barometer. The reality is that anyone ordering a new machine today…
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…
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 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…
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…
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