tool right there's all this technology a lot of things we can do with it do
different types of tillage we look at this tool it's very simple
right we don't have any technology on it we have cylinder stops right so there's
two sets of stops here we have the front and the rear so this
will do your discs and that will do your rear finishing attachment all right
we have a decal here we can do anything from two to six inches in depth
all right we always recommend setting this this are these stops the same as
the rear because that keeps the tool level
going through the field all right so when we look at the 2680h it's a high
performance uh a compact disc right we're looking at
speed speed is the biggest factor and why this
tool does a good job we say speed we're saying 10 to 14 miles
an hour right so that is that is hauling uh 10
to 14 miles an hour what do you think uh that means for our
our tractor
horsepower right so we have what do we have here 9520 or 70.
9570 on a 25-footer looks kind of a little different
right i would say we could probably get away with the 30 foot with this tractor
but the the idea is the same right so we're
looking at 15 to 20 horse a foot all right so when we're looking at that
six inches that five inches deep in the fall
want to go 10 miles an hour right the biggest tool we would ever sell in a
9620 would be a 35 footer that's all i recommend
we have a 40 and a 45 but those are made for up in canada out west with
really light soils light residue they're only doing two maybe three inches deep
at the most so this tool needs speed it needs speed and
that takes power when we look at the factors that affect
field performance they're all very very simple right we have depth we have
speed and we have the angle at which we go through
our residue all right so if i sell or we sell you guys a tool and the tractor's
too small you're gonna call and say i don't like what's going on behind me
i'm going four inches deep i'm only going eight miles an hour i'm gonna say
well shallow it up you shallow
it up you get your 10 miles an
hour and then you're like well i'm not managing my residue
because we're not going deep enough right so i always say sell the tool
a little smaller than you would think to maintain that speed
when we look at sizing the tool so if i said i saw a 30 foot tool
right i go 11.5 mile an hour with a 30 foot if i sell a 35 foot tool and he's
doing 10 mile an hour they're doing the same amount of work
so mile and a half is five feet i'd rather you go 12 mile an hour
or 11 a half mile an hour than 10 mile an hour right
with a narrower tool then have the opposite because what happens is in the
spring you like what it's doing in the fall you
have to go deeper to manage your residue and all sudden now you can't pull that
speed and you notice some field performance issues because of it
all right as far as options so we have two sets of blades here
right we have our notched in the front we have our smooth in the rear
right there's three options you can get notch smooth notch notch
or smooth smooth all right smooth smooth is not for our area that's up like i
said that's the big tools up in in canada the dakotas notch smooth is
the most common that's about the 60 65 percent take rate
and then notch notches is the second i always recommend the notch smooth
just like this tool a couple reasons i think the smooth in the rear makes a
nicer seed bed so if you're going to use this tool for
fall management and then in the spring it's your spring rescue tool
it'll make a nicer seed bed with a smooth also your wear life on the smooth
blades is a little bit better and as far as cost the smooth blade is
actually cheaper than the notch as well so notch smooth is the one i recommend
some guys like the notch notch a little bit more cutting a little size and more
but for the most part i think in even heavy residue the notch smooth is what
we want for for disc blades before i go to the
finishing attachment there we have this what we
call a soil shield or soil deflector so right now we have this thing down and
that's normally in the spring even in some fall conditions we're going to have
it down we can adjust this up and down we can
move it side to rear and high residue sometimes we'll just take that and we'll
flip it right up all right so if you're in
really heavy stock and you're going four or five inches deep
the stalk will want to build up here by the deflector
but the deflector in the spring does a nice job of keeping that nice level
profile for planting all right uh rear attachment we have the
25 and a half inch cage roller all right so it's a pretty big basket
right what this whole system is doing with the finishing attachment right we
take that soil 17 degree angle we throw it into a 14
degree angle disc and we throw it into the basket
and really from this area here to right here is what i call like an organized
chaos right we're hitting it very fast we're doing high speed fracturing
we're not scooping the soil we're not causing a compaction layer like older
disks we're high speed fracturing removing the
soil quickly throwing in that big that cage roller and mixing it back up
and making a nice level seed bed all right the finishing
attachments you can get is the cage roller that's the most popular that's
your spring fall heavy residue it does a really good job
it makes a nice fluffy seed bed the next popular
is the rubber roller is anybody familiar with the rubber roller seen it at all
degelman anybody familiar with the degelman anyone ever heard of that tool so
the degelman high speed high performance disc will pretty much always have the
rubber roller design all right the rubber roller i think it
excels and if you really want a nice firm seed bed
if you're looking for that firm seed bed that rubber roller does a good job of
packing it makes a nice firm seed bed and if you
have rocks sometimes people say roll the rocks in
actually um and the big advantage from a degelman to ours is that then with a
mechanical scraper adjustment so you got to go out there and adjust the scrapers
manually to scrape the mud off the rollers ours
is hydraulic so in the cab you can move your hydraulic lever
adjust the scrapers and scrape the mud off if that's the finishing attachment
you want all right the last one we have is our
spring roller is anybody familiar with the joker the
horsch joker let me see so the horsch joker you're probably going
to always see with the spring roller right i think the spring loader does a
good job in the spring but high residue conditions
you can have some some opportunities for plugging normally the only customers
that have a spring tine or spring spring roller on ours is more
of a a joker to a 2680 customer who really like that finishing attachment
if i was selling them i would always push to the cage roller the cage roller
is the most universal roller it does a better job i think than that
that spring roller and that's probably the most common one
i would go to this and like i mentioned the rubber roller if you want a firm
seed bed that'd be the option you'd want to go
with all right um so as far as running the tool the
one thing that's a little different for these tools so most tillage right we
go to the field we make our passes at the end we do our headlands right and
then we go leave and the planter comes this tool we say get to the field and
you do all your headlands so you do two to three passes around the field
all right then we're gonna go into the field and we're gonna do skip row
so we're gonna actually leave the tool in the ground when we're making our
turns all right is there any type of tillage
you've ever left the tool in the ground when you're making turns
very few it's a really different idea all right and the reason we can do this
is because of these little rubber hot dogs or bushings
all right so those rubbers they do two things they allow upward travel
and they allow that to pivot when you're making the turn
all right and the the reasons we want to stay in the ground is one to optimize
the tool to do more work to get more done in a day
and two is we mentioned speed so when i raise the tool this tool when i raise it
i need to raise this cylinder number scv one and that cylinder scv two all
right if i'm going to do that on every headland
i make my turn i go to put them back down i just mentioned power right this
is going to lug the tractor down by the time you punch it up to get back
to your speed you're going to have about 100 to 150 yards of
six to eight mile an hour tillage and this thing does not do the best job it's
meant for high speeds so if i have it in the ground i can hit
go down to say eight mile an hour leaving the ground make my turn i'm
about to go back in the field i can punch it to 10 get my speed back
at virtually no area where i'm having that reduced speed
all right the high speed is not always right for every field so if you
have fields that are very small and you're not able to get the speed
say they're rough this may not be the right tool for you
all right we have other disc options if you if you're looking at lower speeds
i really recommend at least 8.5 preferably 10 miles an hour
to run this tool in the field okay and and some of that reason i mentioned the
high speed fracturing if we're if we're going slower speeds
we're doing more disc-like operations right we're causing more of the
compaction layer that old this you know old-style disc would cause
but that's kind of the nature we want to go fast it makes a better job
does a better job the subsoil and soil management to go fast and hit
it mix it you know control chaos to the rear makes a nice seed bed
all right a couple other things i want to mention so our blades right we have a
pitch on here it's an angle 17 to 14. we don't do any so some competitors
will do a actual a tilt as well right so what that does
is throws more soil more residue so it can manage more residue but what
also it does if you have a lift effect you're causing more of a compaction
layer right because you're doing more scooping
of the soil rather than straight deflection to the side
all right 17 to 14 is a very good option for making a nice seed bed
um and in residue it does a good job as well uh that's kind of why we settled
and with those degrees um to use so as far as operating the tool um scvs so
you're gonna see there we have five scvs plugged in
all right the tool has to have four so no matter what tool you get you have to
have four scvs the two first two are as i mentioned the
front and the rear cylinders all right and then the last
two are these big cylinders here so you have your tilt and you have your
fold those have to be plugged in and they have to be in float when operating
right if you look at the frame it's a heavy frame very heavy tool
those ride and float and allow the tool to float through the field and it
maintains that level profile all right if you don't run those in
float or forget that you can have op you know issues with you know where
they're egging out you know frame cracks and as you guys know when you turn the
tractor off and that scvs are in float do they stay and float
they don't right so every key cycle you need to make sure to flick them out and
put them back into float if you do decide to go with one of these
tools all right as far as raising on the end i
mentioned we raised with one and two so that's one and two that's here
and that's there i've had customers that want to raise with those big cylinders
right if you raise those big cylinders you may be able to raise it quicker but
what you're doing is look how heavy that frame is
we're supporting all the weight with those cylinders going six seven mile an
hour through a headland so do not raise with the tilt cylinders
those the tilt and the folds will always be in float in the whole field
if you're ever going to raise you're going to raise with one and two
all right the hydraulic jack that's the fifth option on this tool
here so that's on every tool all right if you have four scvs that's
the one you'll tie back and only use when you're gonna go store it
there is a sixth scv if you have that rubber roller i mentioned the hydraulic
scraper that would be there as well so you'd
unplug you could have five scvs for that uh with the the four operating and the
five with the scraper