Degleman Pro Till

[Lex]

I have a Salford 5100 heavy duty disk. We did a bunch of fall work with it last year with good results. But this fall it is so much wetter I think I will just go with the Salford RTS. Lots less fuel and when its wet it does a great job working shallow.

[farmaholic]

Richard5, how are you going to impress your neighbors crawling around at 6 mph?

[JDGreen]

It will not do a job at 6mph .. The faster you pull it the better it works . Does not pull overly hard on our loam soils. If you can't pull it properly at high speeds save your money. There is much debate over these machines however they have a purpose.

[furrowtickler]

Agree with JD.
Although we do not a Degleman we have found many uses for or tillage machine as well.
If you need to go slower save the money and go buy a tandem disc - new 40 fts are around 100 G .

[jake550]

Agree with jdgreen.
They don't work properly at 6mph.
Id buy a nice field cultivator for 2/3's the price if you have to drive 6mph.
In fact I'd like to trade the salford we have off for a cultivator.

[hobbyfrmr]

One of the biggest obstacles for my purchase of a VT machine is the ground speed issue. The other obstacle is the $75,000 to $110,000 price tag. Neither my tractor or my bank account is big enough for them. I do think those machines have value for tillage dependant farms.

[furrowtickler]

Our VT machine virtually paid for itself last fall.
Not having to reseed canola was a big deal here . A lot of reseeded canola just got froze here two nights ago .

[seabass]

Expensive to buy, expensive to pull and expensive if it stays dry. Hard to look at a machine u pay over a hundred grand for sit in the grass til it gets wet.

[farmaholic]

Can you imagine the future maintenance on some of those machines with all those individual discs and twice as many bearings. Yikes. Can you say "trade it off", before it gets there.

[furrowtickler]

Seebass - we had one of the driest springs in 20 years and canola germ was almost perfect

[furrowtickler]

Seebass - we had one of the driest springs in 20 years and canola germ was almost perfect

[bucket]

Farmaholic

Individual assemblies equals quick fixes.

Not pulling gangs apart.