izona drill

[warksfarmer]

Surprised it’s not been mentioned on here yet unless I’ve missed it. From the Mzuri stable.

The Complete Strip Tillage System - Mzuri

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izona.com

 

[steveR]

Surprised it’s not been mentioned on here yet unless I’ve missed it. From the Mzuri stable.

The Complete Strip Tillage System - Mzuri

Leave something to be proud of. That’s the Mzuri philosophy Our passion is helping farmers and landowners leave behind a landscape and industry to be proud of. Whether that be through greater financial security of the family business or ensuring a stable ecological environment that is fit to...

izona.com

Wasn't it at Groundswell?

 

[Wigeon]

Yup, and it was chuffing massive.

 

[steveR]

Yup, and it was chuffing massive.

As were all the drills as I recall other than the Aitchison and Simtech machines.

As a farmer said to me as we were gawking, "Contractors kit, and big one's at that...!"

 

[Wigeon]

It looked rather like it was making the big tractor bark drilling flat ground it had already been through 20 times.

Be fun trying to tug it up a hill. The tank is basically a grain trailer really high off the ground!

I'm sure its jolly good though.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I hate big direct drills. Absolutely no need of it at all

What am I seeing with an Izona? - A disc, then a tine, then a press wheel. Wow...

 

[snarling bee]

Why not a video of it working in poorly chopped cereal straw?

 

[beardface]

Need an oxygen tank to fill it up!

 

[martian]

And we've ended up with something that looks like a ploughed field

 

[E_B]

Given the team behind it, you know that it's going to be designed thoughtfully and well built. The modular design is interesting enough, with the ability to switch from strip till to direct seeding. Twin fan, pressurised tank. Aimed at farmers with very big tractors who might want an alternative to the usual 6-8m Rapids and such like that will allow them to venture into reduced cultivations and then switch back to a conventional tillage situation.

I know they were going up and down their plot at GW continuously but it kept a a bit of liveliness about the demo area when there were big gaps inbetween allocated demo times. Their stand had plenty to view and seemed to garner the most media attention in regards to machinery so a valid addition to the line up I would say.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I suspect that drill was developed, and another company set up, in case the patent infringement court case brought by "another" drill manufacturer went against them. Which of course it didn't.