Rotary spader anyone ???

[catkom3]

I had never heard of them either untill I watched the new DVD I bought on Ebay dot de http://cgi.ebay.de/2-DVD-Landtechnik-2010-Teil-1-/200479055018?cmd=ViewItem&pt=DE_DVDs&hash=item2ead7b9caa

Rotary spader

http://www.imants.nl/pages/product.php?dg=agrarisch&groepID=21&rID=267&cID=267&taalCode=UK

I guess they would be fine,unless you were working stoney ground,hard to imageine it's more economical than ploughing though,there is also an interesting clip showing two Claas Axion 820 C-Matic's in BLACK hauling Tebbe manure spreaders,and the fun and games they have trying to pull one of them out a hole,a very enjoyable two hours

'specially the last ten minutes showing the new Claas Xerion 5000 pulling a 7.5 meter Amazone Centaur,with a HUGE front weight box,complete with hole for P.T.O shaft

Regards

Joe.

[Kiwi6920]

they are a pretty nice machine, couple kicking around my aera, the only need 100hp to drive but 160plus to lift them, they do a realy good job, guy down the road dirtect drilled his maize then this went over it and one passed it into grass, paddock loots realy nice

[ploughmaster]

Looks like an updated and refined (and bigger!) version of the 1960's/1970's Howard RotaDigger 

[archbarch]

rotary spaders have been around years although they never seem to take off, the last time they hit the news was when the straw burning ban came in.

Dutzi i seem to remember made one with a drill consisting of subsoiler tines, spader and drill, the ultimate one pass one machine, the farm i worked on in Sussex considered getting one but thought it would be too slow???