Ploughs
Perfect results
To ensure the best ploughing pattern, PÖTTINGER offers the right mouldboards for all soil types and ploughing strategies. The different lengths and curvatures are available as sold as well as slatted mouldboards. Shallow as well as deep ploughing can be achieved with consistent quality to match your requirements. This creates a "clean slate" . This is the basis for a good start for the next crop.
Incorporating large quantities of straw and plant residues places special demands on a plough. The underbeam clearance and point-to-point spacing are selectable. Skimmers and trashboards provide additional assistance with this task. This creates the best conditions for subsequent work steps and has a positive phytosanitary effect. The risk of fungal disease from crop and stubble residues on the soil surface infecting subsequent crops is reduced.
Variable furrow width
Taking into consideration the conditions in the field in terms of the type of soil and its characteristics, it may be necessary to adjust the furrow width accordingly to achieve the ideal working results. Depending on the point-to-point spacing, different furrow widths can be achieved.
To achieve a consistent turnover of the furrow ridge, the furrow width needs be adapted when the furrow depth is changed, in order to ensure a constant ratio of ploughing depth to furrow width.
It is also possible to change the formation of the furrow ridge for agronomic reasons by changing the furrow width.
Up to the edge of the field
To achieve satisfactory and uniform working results, consistent depth control of the plough is needed using the depth control wheels. Depending on the requirements, a choice of proven pivot depth wheels, dual depth wheels and transport pivot wheels is available for hitch-mounted reversible ploughs.
Because they are mounted close to the plough beam, fenceline performance is improved. This means that plant residues and weeds can be reliably incorporated right up to the edge of the field. This is essential for grasses such as couch grass, which often spread from outside the field. Clean and tidy work from the first to the last furrow is ensured.
Drive outside the furrow
For more soil conservation by driving outside the furrow on unploughed land and for more convenience, the SERVO 4000 and the optional on-land equipment can be used with the tractor wheels in the furrow as normal, or on the unploughed land.
The on land system allows tractors with wide tyres and crawler tracks as well as steering systems to easily plough outside the furrow.
"For me as an arable farmer and pig breeder, ploughing is still a priority, because I want to ensure there are no toxins in the forage. Especially after harvest maize, I believe that the straw should be ploughed in properly to avoid fusarium in the wheat.
That's why I decided to go for the SERVO 4000 P with hydraulic furrow width adjustment and the hydraulic depth wheel. I especially like the excellent surface finish to the soil, the strength of the plough, and how easy it is to adjust."
Gerhard Neubauer, Thalheim bei Wels | Austria