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drawbar. This combination of cultivator plus seed and/or fertilizer drill enables seedbed
preparation as well as sowing in a single pass.
The cultivator’s construction allows for different operating modes, such as in combination
with a fertilizer seed drill, in which case several tons of drawbar weight can be directed
onto the cultivator. For this reason, the cultivator has been given a lightweight base
construction. The working angles of the discs have been carefully designed to ensure
effective ground penetration despite the cultivator’s low design weight, even without the
added drawbar loading of a fertilizer seed drill. In addition to this, attachment points are
provided on the cultivator frame for additional weights to facilitate tillage of harder soils.
The cultivator can be driven in the field on its own support wheels and at end turns, for
example, the discs can be independently raised. This reduces end turn surface damage
and speeds up the work process. When a fertilizer seed drill is hitched to the cultivator,
full tractor steerability is consistently retained despite the extra drawbar load on the
cultivator as there is no need for the cultivator to be raised by the tractor’s lifter during
driving.
Stubble tillage, as an alternative to ploughing, is typically achieved in a single pass.
Pasture tillage requires two passes, ideally crosswise.
If tillage is not immediately followed by sowing, i.e. tilling is used as an alternative to
ploughing, a relatively high working depth of 10–12 cm should be used.
If the purpose of tilling is seedbed preparation, the tilling must be carried out at sowing
depth, i.e. usually max. 3–5 cm depending on the crop.
Use of a relatively high driving speed of 10 – 15 km/h typically gives the best results.
4. Hitching the cultivator to the tractor
Tume CultiPack requires a normal ISO 730-1 category 2 compliant 3-point hitch and an
ISO 5675 compliant dual-function ½ inch hydraulic power take off connection.
Figure 1. A washer must be installed under the ring cotter due to the oval shape of
the tow lug holes.
Use only high quality ring
cotters and washers!
