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 first machines, yet there are still common genes between them. James de Havilland traces the Mono/Solo history
Buying a second-hand Simba Solo cultivator, or indeed a Mono for that matter, is about understanding what the unit can and cannot do. The Simba implements themselves are very robust, and can be rebuilt if necessary. But as the models have evolved through all the Mono and Solo variants, their work capability and versatility have changed, too.
With this factor in mind, it is worth taking an historical step back to the beginning when Simba first started to produce heavy drawbar cultivators in the 1980s. From the outset, the aim was to construct a minimum-pass tool – a piece of kit that would reduce the requirement for subsequent cultivations in the overall battle to cut total combinable crop establishment costs.
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