As far as angles, right, so you have 17 degree and 14 degree
and then this one, right, right now we're at zero degree and we go all the way
up to twelve degree, so 2660VT.
It stands for vertical tillage.
But for John Deere, we're coining it as variable intensity.
So vertical till is more probably the zero to four degree, you know, not much
disturbance horizontally with the soil where we get north of the four degrees.
We're going to start moving some dirt, right?
And we will get up to this eight to ten.
You're going to see that in the in the field.
So what I've seen in the fall right now
is a lot of guys are running in corn about six to ten degrees.
If they don't have all type soils and they're getting some good soil
movement, they're cutting and sizing.
They're allowing that to break down.
And for the spring application in the spring, they're looking at, you
know, that two to three up to about six or seven depending if the fields are
and what you want out of that.
So the more degrees in the spring, you can bring up more clods.
So some guys want to go straighter, right, and not bring up the clods as much
and really let those double baskets do the job of breaking up, making it level.
So this tool, if you look at it, it's pretty heavy.
It's got a real heavy frame.
We got stablizers set here in the front.
We have the baskets in the back with the heaviness of the frame.
We put our wing pressure down.
We get our baskets pressurized and we set these correctly.
This tool doesn't want to rock front, rear, side to side.
It's pretty locked in.
So with the frame not moving in any direction?
That means we're getting a more consistent finish
and the soil as far as depth and levelness. So
it's pretty common.
You know, if you hear about this tool, you're going to hear about this
gang angle, you're going to hear zero, twelve degrees. We have versatility.
We can go take weeds out. We can fill in ruts a little bit.
We look at filling ruts.
You're going to, you know, it's not going to fill in ruts like a disk.
But if you go to twelve degrees and we have hydraulic fore afe it's
hard to see. But there's a cylinder.
We can dip that tool all the way to the rear,
our back blades through to the center.
So if you tip it to twelve, you turn it to the rear.
We can actually fill in some ruts.
So we have some light combine ruts or some washouts.
You can you can do that.
You can get a decent fill in, you know, turn around.
And then with the TruSet we can hit one button
and go back to the conditions you want to run in the field.
So there is some versatility there as far as what you can do with it,
with the twelve degree angle.
But really, that's the thing.
You hear the big name of the game, honestly, and as far as finish
is the double baskets.
All right. So that's a pro finish, double basket system
there, hydraulically adjustable so we can go up to 900 psi in the baskets.
When we look at the baskets, you're always going to have the front one there.
That's the reverse knife edge.
So reverse knife edge, what it's doing is kind of the subsoil.
So if you look at the baskets, they're kind of like this.
So that front baskets in the subsoil when we go over five degrees.
You'll see that the blades can cause
a little bit of a ripple because we're moving more horizontal soil.
If when we do that, that front basket then is cutting those ridges.
So front baskets cut in the ridges, it's pinning residue
in the subsoil and then the rear baskets kind of a finishing basket.
So if you see anything from the road, the levelness the clods getting broke up.
That's more of the back basket.
If you dig behind the tool, you'll see what that front baskets doing,
and it's very noticeable when we compare against the competition,
especially some of the vts that have a heavier angle on the blades.
All right, so those baskets we can run with up to 900 psi pressure,
we can run them float.
We can pull them up out of the ground if we think we need to.
As well as on the back,
you can see a lockout so you could leave the front basket down
and pull up the back basket and lock it out if you think you need to.
For the most part, I always want the front basket down the subsoil.
Work it's doing is is a huge part of this tool
and the finish as far as planting and leaving a good finish.
If it's really wet, honestly, I would rather not pull the baskets up and run.
I'd rather just not run and wait till the conditions get better.
VT tools are not meant to be real wet conditions.
If you if it gets too wet, it's better to park it and wait till dries
out a little bit.
TruSet wise again, it will
go over that screen here a minute, but this tool's got all the true set on it.
So you got a hydraulic stabilizer wheels here so we can adjust those from the cab,
set those we have the hydraulic fore aft, we have the hydraulic gang angle, right?
So you can order all these things manually. This could be a turnbuckle.
There could be rollers here or the spring pin where you set it.
So we can do everything, make it mechanical.
But if you want the TruSet, the adjustability,
we can do all this from the cab.
All right. So the hydraulic gang angle, wing pressure
basket pressure, this is side to side which will show you here in the screen.
But basically what that means is if we get into a field and say that
what the soil and the moisture, we're sinking a little bit
more in the center and our wings are a little higher.
Instead of going out there and turn the turnbuckle,
you can in the cab, hit your wings and go half inch deeper
and deep in the wings compared to your center.
So you'll notice that and how easy it is to do that.
And if we look at cultivators like the big five sections, you'll see that as well,
or even this one on a five section.
It's really nice to be able
go in the cab and just level the tool without having to get out or mess with it.
So this one has a side to side leveling as well.
And that's pretty much all the TruSet.
So everything on it, it's kind of a-la-cart.
If you want the TruSet depth and gang angle,
you can get that you don't have to get some other features.
You don't have to get the stabilizer wheels.
You don't have to get the fore aft.
You can kind of order what you want as far as TruSet options.
SCV wise, this is 4 SCVs base.
And then if you get the fore aft you'll get the fifth.
So that's a lot of SCVs for some tractors.
So maybe you got to stick with four.
You can always take fore aft just tie it back.
And when you want to adjust that, you can plug it in
or maybe put off possible or something.
But it does. It does take five remotes if you have the fore aft. So
horsepower and sizes.
So this is a 30 foot,
this is probably the best matched to an 8R 370 or 410 tractor.
We go down to the 25 foot, which is all right for that three. 35, 345, 360.
The smallest we go is a 25 footer and they pull pretty hard.
So ten to 15 horsepower foot.
If you're using this tools as a vertical tilt tool
so that zero to four degrees, that ten to twelve horsepower is pretty realistic.
When we get north of four, you're seeing up to that 15 horsepower foot.
The main reason for the horsepower is the speed.
So eight to ten miles an hour is how fast we want to run this tool.
This tool is more forgiving if you're running slower, say, six and a half seven.
It does a good job,
but to get the action out of a vertical till you need to be running the eight
and a half to nine and a half.
That's the best job this tool is going to do.
All right, so speeds higher speeds.
I mean, if you have exactemerge planters, high speed take high horsepower,
that 2680 and this tool here take take horsepower to do what you want to do.
It's always better to size up a tractor than have a tractor.
It's barely sized for it.
And then you're not able
to get the condition near your the finish you want out of the tool.
So 25 30 foot, we have a 33 foot.
There's some guys putting a 33 foot on a 410.
We actually ran that last week to 33 footer out here
and we had it on the 370 and it wasn't sized up enough.
So you do need probably 400 horsepower more on that 33
footer in the spring you'd probably be fine with a 370 400.
But in the fall or, you know, conditions like this, when you get more residue,
they do pull pretty hard.
We do have the bigger five sections.
We have a 43 and a 49 footer.
The 49 footer is
almost too much for this 9620 its its size. All right.
But you're not going to be able to get nine, nine
and a half with the heavier gang angle.
So if you're looking to do a five
that can do all the 43 for is a little bit more popular
kind of do whatever you want with it and get the speed out of it.