It's only been out for almost three years now that market's
kind of knew as well, so the high speed market kind of came
six, seven, eight years ago.
There's a lot of companies that have an option out to do this.
The customers that are running these tools now, and maybe some of you
have one of these, but basically we're looking
at residue management in the fall quickly doing it quickly.
So this is a 10 to 14 mile an hour tool.
We can run a little slower eight and a half to nine,
but you really want ten out of it.
So it's designed the way we throw the soil from the front to the rear to the basket
to run at the ten miles an hour.
That's the best job you're going to get as at that high speed.
But with ten miles an hour, that takes a lot of horsepower.
So I believe this is a 25 foot
you're looking at 15 to 20 horsepower a foot.
So you'll see it today, the fastest
you can probably pull this and this is four inches.
We'll be running today. We can go up to six in the fall.
You see, normally three and a half to four and a half
the spring is two to three and a half.
So depending on what you want to do with it,
this four, four and a half,
a good option to do what we're doing today as far as just
turning over some weeds and getting ready for maybe a cover crop seeding.
But to pull it takes a lot of horsepower, so you get to like the 35 footer
you'll need almost like a 9620 is the only tractor that can pull that.
To get to the 40 foot
model, you can you can run in the spring with no problems with 9620.
But in the fall, if you want to go four, four and a half inches deep
a 9620 will struggle running this tool ten mile an hour.
So they take horsepower, and that's kind of the name of the game.
The VT isn't far off, but this one also takes a lot of horsepower.
All right. So right now, as far as depth, I mentioned two to six inches
the way we have it set up. There's a sticker right here.
You just put the stops down that you want to run.
So if you don't run right now, we're at four inches.
You throw the stops down and you put the same in the front
and the rear and that will set up your four inches of depth.
All right. So we do have some updates coming on on this tool.
There will be a single point crank coming very soon, in this spring, actually.
So if that's something you're interested in, I'd just talk to a salesman,
there will be updates.
So you only have to do it at the crank and not at each area.
But that being said, this is very simple.
A lot of guys really like it because you just set it
let it go and it's there to go.
So basically, we want to always set the front of the rear the same for depth.
So if you get five in the front put five in the back
and then basically you have to run the baskets down all the time so
some competitors can raise the baskets, the front and the rear discs
depth, the set from the basket cylinder and the front of the tool cylinder.
So you do run that tool down all the time, like right now
when we're running through the field with it out like this.
The basket is going to turn because it's on the ground
and that's how it's designed to run. There's no problem with that.
We don't want to raise the tool with those big tilt cylinders.
So you see those two big tilt cylinders
that's meant to fold it, that's not meant to raise it.
So this tool is very heavy and you can probably see that
we don't want to raise it up and run with that tool up like that.
It's just a lot of stress in the cylinders
can have issues with seals and just overall, it's not meant to do that.
When we operate the tool, you'll see it when we run it today.
The main tilts I just talked about
and then the fold cylinders, you'll always want those in float,
so you float those cylinders and then basically that tool can flex
and the weight of the tool will keep it level going into the field.
So you'll usually do a timed detent on one and two for your depth
and you'll float three and four. You just detent it and you run it.
And this field here, the way we'd actually run this field,
we would actually do headlands first, two or three, probably three passes
on the headlands. And then this tool is meant
to stay in the ground and not even raise on the ends.
So you'll work the headlands and then we'll set up our
AutoTrac and we'll do skip pass to the field with it in the ground.
The reason we do that is a few reasons.
So you get more ground covered.
If we do it that way, we do it better and more consistent job,
mainly because if we raise the tool up with SCV one and two, we make our turn.
We put the toolbox in the ground
it loads the tractor and we start bumping our shifter
to get our speed up to ten again.
We normally have 100 to 150 yards of tillage that isn't exactly what we wanted.
When we leave in the ground, we can just go down to eight mile an hour
within the ground, make the turn
bump it right back to ten, and almost have no area
where we have that low speed tillage.
So we really want at least eight and a half nine out of this,
preferably ten running the tool to do the job it needs to do.
Options wise, we have the notch blade in the front, smooth in the rear.
That's the most common right now in Illinois.
We do have a notch notch option that's also pretty popular.
The smooth, smooth option isn't really meant for this area,
so that's more of a weed country type of blade configuration.
But we always want the notch in the front.
The smooth in the rear
can sometimes make a little leveler or smoother seedbed in the spring.
And also a little less prone to plugging in some really green stalk conditions.
But the notch notch
is kind of a penetrates a little bit better sometimes.
More aggressive with residue.
Maybe not as level in the spring and can plug a little easier in green stalk.
Both those options are not bad, though they're both good for this area.
As far as finishing, though, this is the cage roller.
It's the most popular in Illinois by far.
There's two other options.
There's a rubber roller, and then there's a spring tine roller.
Your rubber roller is a premium for rocks.
If you have rocks.
A lot of guys like to roll those rocks in, as well as make a firm seedbed.
So if you want a firm seedbed, you have rocks.
The rubber roller is a really nice option as far as the most universal
and finishing option without rocks is the cage roller.
And then the spring tine roller.
I don't really recommend a whole lot.
I think this one handles clods better and better higher residue.
The spring tine, we have some other competitors that run the spring tine.
If you came from that and you really liked it. It's not a bad option.
I just think this one's a little bit more universal.
Better with clod management, just more made for this Illinois area.
That's kind of the gist of the 2680H
size wise, we do go all the way down to eight foot.
That's an integral unit, and we go to a two section
unit up to 24 foot and then we have our three section sizes
that go up to 45, 45 footers not really made for for this area.
It's more of a weed country, Canada, North Dakota for.
This area, I'd say the 25 to 35 footer are really popular.