The best things come to those who wait, would appear to be the tack taken by Rabe towards the arrival of its updated Blue Bird cultivator. First shown at Agritechnica 2015, the CL family is only now going into production — purportedly honed, tested and ready for action.
The best things come to those who wait, would appear to be the tack taken by Rabe towards the arrival of its updated Blue Bird cultivator. First shown at Agritechnica 2015, the CL family is only now going into production — purportedly honed, tested and ready for action.
From launch the Blue Bird CL is available either in mounted (3.00-5.30m) or semimounted (5.30m-8.05m) format, and to get a feel for what’s on offer we tucked a 3.00m mounted model into light-ish soils where the job at hand was to incorporate reasonably well rotted maize stubble. First, though, a tour of the CL hardware, which, when pared back to its core elements, comprises 13 sprung break-back tines, convex levelling discs and the firm’s signature ‘U-Pak’ roller.
Improved user-friendliness was a key design criterion when it came to developing CL, and this trait manifests itself almost immediately … when attaching cultivator to tractor. There’s a total of three possible headstock positions for the top link, including one elongated hole and two for the lower link arms — Cat II and III. On top of that, there’s a selection of natty stowage points for cables and hoses, as well as extra storage for spare shear bolts should the buyer plump for
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