StripCat only for OSR or??

[Kaad]

http://www.slyfrance.com/ I'm not very good at speaking French, but it seems to me that the row spacing is from 50 cm or 20"? Very good for OSR, but not for cereals!

Does anyone have experience with this machine?

Videos:
http://www.slyfrance.com/galerie/videos-stripcat/

 

[Clive]

No experience but the rows would surely be to wide for wheat ? I think the concept is something that has come from maize growers where the wide spacing is not an issue

Would work great for OSR though as you say

 

[dontknowanything]

We have a StripCat coming on Demo next month, for sugar beet. Tim Chamen is running a CTF open day at the end of March here which will hopefully be at the right time to compare ploughed vs StripCar beet seedlings.

 

[VTP]

I've finished my second corn harvest and first osr with a 9 row strip cat 1 .

The interrow can go to 45 cm (sugarbeet) to no limit.

Here it's on my fields with 58 cm

 

[lexion610]

Couldn't you just put the coulters in 3 or 4 staggered rows, so the spacing is closer? I suppose it would add a lot of weight/complexity/length but could be done.. It wouldn't be too dissimilar to a primera type setup I would've thought.

 

[Kaad]

Couldn't you just put the coulters in 3 or 4 staggered rows, so the spacing is closer? I suppose it would add a lot of weight/complexity/length but could be done.. It wouldn't be too dissimilar to a primera type setup I would've thought.

The problem is that if the row spacing is narrower than 45 cm, you'll spread the residue back into the already drilled rows..

So the answer is NO, it's only for row crops like, corn/maise, OSR, sugar beets etc...

But it seems to do a hell of a job by cleaning the rows.. IMO you just need to built on the drill so you can till and drill in one work flow..

 

[Jerry]

Last autumn we put in a test block of OSR with a stripcat in conjuntion with our contractor. We also as a few days later put in some with the Claydon.

Same variety, same rotation, same treatments since.

The stripcat established crops looks very well indeed, possibly too well with too many plants per m2 but time will tell.

The stripcat worked very well in our light soils, easy to pull, easy to set up leaving a very nice finish, almost level and only working the seeding strip, no soil through to areas between the rows.

Seemed a well engineered piece of kit and looking forward to how the crop progresses!!