State-Of-The-Art Strip Till Unit

State-Of-The-Art Strip Till Unit PLANTING EQUIPMENT No-Till & Min-Till 30-2-4 "Our new state-of-the-art strip till unit is the most versatile on the market. It saves trips and lets you place fertilizer exactly where it does the most good to boost yields," says Doug Gengenbach, Lexington, Neb. The system consists of a 3-pt. mounted toolbar equipped with adjustable, clamp-on row units. The unit can be used during the fall to apply fertilizer after harvest, or during the spring to till the soil just ahead of the planter. It can be set up for either dry or liquid fertilizer, or anhydrous ammonia. The various components mount on flat steel bars that can be easily raised or lowered by using a socket wrench on a screw jack. The sweep can be replaced with an ammonia or liquid fertilizer knife or by a mole knife. "The adjustability lets you put fertilizer right under the seed, where it does the most good," says Gengenbach. Each row unit has a stalk chopper attached to a single coulter on front, followed by a pair of waffled coulters, a 7-in. wide sweep, V-shaped row cleaner, a blade for removing small weeds, and a rolling basket. The stalk chopper cleans away all the stalks and root crowns. The three coulters have a total working width of 12 in. The blade is unique and does a good job of cleaning the row of weeds. "We've tested the unit in a field with 1-ft. high weeds, and the blade totally cleaned all the weeds off," notes Gengenbach. The strip till unit is available in row widths from less than 30 in. to 40 in. Prices start at about $17,000 for an 8-row, 30-in. machine. Maximum toolbar widths go up to 60 ft. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Doug Gengenbach, 43698 Drive 751, P.O. Box 340, Lexington, Neb. 68850 (ph 308 325-0023 or 308 999-2357; fax 308 876-2164; swahls@atcjet.net).

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