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LAMMA PREVIEW
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THE
VEGETABLE
FARMER •
JANUARY 2017
New to the
HE-VA
range of
machines at LAMMA is the
‘Crimper Roller’, a knife roller
designed to roll, cut and bruise
cover crops in front of a direct
drill. Rolling down the canopy,
the Crimper Roller makes it
easier to drill through a heavy
cover crop and bruises the
foliage to speed up degradation
allowing successful
establishment of the following
crop.
“The advent of large-scale
cover cropping has led to
increased interest in how to
destroy and drill through the
canopy,” commented James
Woolway,
OPICO
Managing
Director. “This new Crimper
Roller has angled edges set at
140mm spacing to cut or bruise
the cover crop every 140mm
along its length. This allows
effective drilling, whilst also
ensuring quicker decomposition
of the cover crop encouraging
the following crop to emerge
through residues more quickly.”
Each section of the roller has
stepped edges which spread the
weight of the whole section,
preventing any soil disturbance
and avoidingweed seeds being
brought to the surface, fitting
into a zero-till cultivation
system.
The Crimper Roller uses a
proven HE-VA front press frame,
which becomes an extension of
the front of the tractor when
attached, meaning it is “trailed”
rather than pushed so that it
follows the nose of the tractor
to steer smoothly, even at
speed. On 4m and 6mmodels
this is combinedwith a steering
damper to stabilise themachine
which compensates for slopes
and prevents any over-reaction
of guidance systems to the
movement of the front press.
The crimping sections are
made from 600mmmetal tubes
which can be ballastedwith
water to provide extra weight
so the roller is not held up if
the cover crop is particularly
tall, thick or woody.
The Crimper Roller is available
in a 3m rigidmodel, or 3m, 4m
or 6m foldingmodels, starting
at £5,097+ VAT, andwill be
on display on the OPICOHE-VA
Stand B10
at LAMMA.
14
CleeHill Road,TenburyWells,
WorcsWR158HL
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New Crimper Roller to cut through cover crops
Opico’s 6mHE-VA Crimper Roller.
Specialist vegetable growingmachinery
Rangeof vegetable, salad
andpotato equipment
Edwards FarmMachinery
[EFM], specialists in vegetable
growingmachinery, will be
exhibiting their range of Bed
forming, Seeding, Transplanting,
Inter-row Cultivation, Plastic/
fleece laying and retrieving
machinery to growers at
LAMMA in
Hall Number 9
on
Stand 910
.
“The Agricola Italiana
Pneumatic Seed drill offers really
accurate seeding and
placement, alongwith an ability
to handle difficult seed such as
naked parsnip. This and its
speed of drilling, has made the
Agricola Italiana the drill of
choice of many of the larger
growers,” says Rob Edwards.
Checchi &Magli Transplanters
offer a range of market leading
machines to suit planting into
open land or through plastic
film. Massano is an Italian
family run company, and EFM
will be showing both their bed
forming and stone burying
machines at LAMMA 2017.
EFM alsomanufactures
specialist equipment themselves.
On showwill be their Heavy
Duty Poly / Fleece Layer, Poly /
Fleece Remover and Inter-row
Cultivator.
Polystar Plastics
alongwith
their distributor
Miles Crop
Cover
, will be exhibiting their
range of crop covers on some of
themachines on EFM’s stand.
Edwards FarmMachinery’s Heavy
Duty Polythene & Fleece Laying
Machine.
Burdens Group
are
franchisees for the following
manufacturers: Tumoba,
Struik, Sauter, Wifo (Koning),
Samon, MVP (Collingwoods)
Tong, Agrimech, Swift Lift,
and Sieger.
The company can supply and
install specialist and bespoke
grading, belting and
packaging systems as well as
soil preparation, planting,
maintenance & harvesting
machinery for all salad,
potato, onion and vegetable
crops.
Full details will be available
on
Stand R72
.
Struik offer a range of rotary cultivators and haulm toppers.
