vertical till machines

730virgil · Dec 3, 2017

the last few years vertical till machines have been used more and more my neighbor has 2 which he pulls with 200? plus horsepower tractors.
40 years ago the old rule of thumb 10 horse power for every foot of width the dealer i worked for sold a lot of 9 foot kewanee chisel plows for john deere 4020 and 806 international guys
how much horsepower would a 10 foot vertical till machine need to pull it.

3020G · Dec 3, 2017

10-12 HP a foot. 15HP a foot if you really want to pull it right up and down hills.

SVcummins · Dec 3, 2017

Chisel plows don?t have to be run as fast as vertical tillage machine to work the way it should

Brendon-KS · Dec 3, 2017

Very true. Compared to chisel plows vertical till machines don't have a particularly high draft load per foot but in order to work as intended they need to be pulled fast, like 8+ mph. Drawbar horsepower is the product of pulling force and speed so doubling the speed will double the power required for a given force. Folks often just think about the pulling force but the speed required is just as important in figuring the necessary power from the tractor. A good illustration of this is the old steamers and prairie tractors that could pull 12 or more plow bottoms but since they were creeping along at 2 mph the actual drawbar power (in other words, the work done per unit of time) wasn't all that high, especially considering the physical size of the equipment.

3020G · Dec 3, 2017

Vertical Tillage isn't deep ripping or chisel plowing. Vertical Tillage is something like a Great Plains 1800TT or 1800TM. Turbo Till (TT) or Turbo Max (TM).

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