What are the option out there for a machine like a horsch joker with a tg bar. Plenty of manufactures do a short disc and plenty do something like a sumo but very few do a short disc with a set of ripper type legs rather than a sub-soiler.
What are the option out there for a machine like a horsch joker with a tg bar. Plenty of manufactures do a short disc and plenty do something like a sumo but very few do a short disc with a set of ripper type legs rather than a sub-soiler.
I'll second how good that Horsch Terrano Cultivator is & its way ahead of any TG bar or Equ Simba ST-Bar+Xpress 3m size that is.The TG bar legs are too far apart to do an effective job in a single pass, which is surely the whole point of min till.
The more effective single pass machine is the Horsch Terrano FX on 40mm full tungsten points (the cheaper tungsten tip don’t last), which has has twice as many legs/ metre, and the following discs are only needed for levelling as the the legs shatter and aerate the profile. Power requirement is around 70hp+/metre on heavy ground to 11”/ 27cm depth. More power/m for trailed versions, as you won’t have the weight transfer through the tractor for traction.
its 90% the same machine !!! i had oneSimba x-press with st bar.
The bearings hubs can be rebuilt for a fraction of the cost of new. New style are cheaper than old. I found the old style bearings had too much space between the balls and didn’t last. None that I have rebuilt have failed. New bearings have two extra balls. The discs I changed to gaber stickleback. Self sharpening and cut very good. My 37 ft unit has over 5000 acres on it with theses disc and are worn only a quarter inch in diameter.We already have a joker and tg bar and are happy with it but the discs are now worn and the bearings are starting to go so we are looking at changing it or refurbishment. You cant get a x-press any more we used to have one it was a very good machine but KV dont do them anymore.