Amazone now offers a knife roller as a front tool for the Cirrus 6003-2 folding trailed cultivator drill.
The enclosed roller core design with chevron knife arrangement is a unique feature that provides additional crumbling on cloddy soils and ensures the intensive shredding of crop residues. Catch crops and tall stubble are cut at right angles to the direction of travel. The new knife reduces the number of passes, saving time and restricting the evaporation of scarce groundwater.
Preparation for cereals after sunflowers involves cutting the tall stalks at right angles and aligning them in the longitudinal direction by the Minimum-TillDiscs. The seed placement accuracy is thereby considerably increased since the sowing coulter is not lifted up by the crop residues.
Even shredding and incorporation of maize stubble promotes good field hygiene after the maize harvest. The knife roller on the Cirrus 6003-2 saves an additional run with a mulcher, a roller or a disc harrow for cultivating stubbles.
The knife roller improves the outcome by enabling direct sowing into a standing catch crop. The catch crop is cultivated intensively in a single pass and incorporated in the soil, if necessary.
The combination of working passes reduces the required number of passes across the field. The soil structure is protected and costs are saved.
The Cirrus 6003-2 is characterised by its extreme robustness. The sturdy roller bearing mounts and the knives made from Boron steel are identifiable characteristics and ensure a long service life. The fixings for the knives are recessed in the round tube on the roller. The enclosed roller core is extremely insensitive to stones and dirt contamination. The knife roller is absolutely maintenance-free as a result of the spherical roller bearings and the face seals. Reversible blades, sharpened on both sides, halve the wear costs.
A unique selling point of the knife roller is the V-shaped arrangement of the knives. Lateral pull is eliminated by this special knife layout.
The soil adaption of the individual knife segments is achieved by a hydraulic pre-tension system. This means that the machine operates evenly over the entire working width, even on undulating ground.
