Tool options for the EC-Weeder
The great variety of tools
The EC-Weeder can be fully customised to individual requirements with a wide range of tool options.
All EC-Weeder tools at a glance
Hoeing tools
The hoeing tools cut weeds close to the surface, pull them out and bury them. The working depth can be set exactly for precise work. Various hoeing tools are available for different soil conditions, which support shallow, even hoeing that protects capillary water.
- Robust tool for rocky soils, as the spring tine can deflect in the direction of travel and to the sides
- Excellent soil penetration
- Also suitable for deeper tillage up to 4 cm deep
- Vibrating, burying and pulling action
- Shallow design ensures that weeds are deposited on the surface, where they dry out
- Long shape minimises susceptibility to blockages
- Precise tool, also for rocky soils, as the Vibro mount can deflect both to the sides and in the direction of travel
- Vibrating, cutting and burying action
- Blockage-free work
- Precise tool, also for young, small crop plants and stony soils, as the Vibro mount is able to deflect both to the sides and in the direction of travel
- L-blades prevent crop plants against being buried
- Vibrating, cutting and burying action
- Increased crumbling effect for particularly thorough exposure of weeds
- Blockage-free work
- Continuous cutting surface optimally breaks up crusted soils
- Clods are cleared from the rows
- Precise tool for soils without stones
- Very shallow tillage
- Cutting action
- Little movement of soil
- Precise tool for soils without stones and young, small crop plants
- L-blades prevent crop plants against being buried
- Cutting action and transfer of weeds towards the middle of the row
- Continuous cutting surface optimally breaks up crusted soils
- Clods are cleared from the rows • Little movement of soil
- Precise tool for soils without stones and young, small crop plants
- Protects crops from soil clods
- Self-propelled, no damage to crop plants
- Versatile use in sugar beet or onions
- Cuts the soil so that small crop plants are not uprooted by displaced soil clods
- L-blades prevent crop plants against being buried0
Which hoeing tool for which requirements?
Protective tools
Protective tools are mainly used in combination with hoeing knives on Vibro mounts and duck-foot shares to protect crop plants against being buried by the hoeing tools.
- Can be used with the Basic element
- Cutting action due to a smooth, bevelled disc shape
- 305 mm diameter
- Can be used with the Combi element
- Multiple parking positions for applications where no protection is required
- Not susceptible to blockages due to self-propulsion
- 500 mm diamete
- Available for the Basic and Combi element
- Protects crop plants over the entire length of the hoeing element
Harrows
Harrows extract young weeds from the soil and remove soil from extracted weeds to prevent them from becoming established again.
- Can be used with the Basic element from 15 to 50 cm row width
- Can be used with the Combi element from 15 to 80 cm row width
- Exposes and distributes grasses and weed roots so that they dry out more efficiently
- When crop rows are harrowed, weeds are successfully controlled even between crop plants
- Additional crumbling effect
- Can be used with the Combi and TRS element
- Uproots or buries weeds in rows between crop plants
- Allows intra-row cultivation
- Can also be used in rocky and crusted soils and with organic residue after mulch tillage
- Sweeps weeds out of rows
- Angle adjustment supports adjustment of the working width/aggressiveness for relieving spring loads
- Harrows the strip within the row that is not worked by the hoeing knives
Finger hoes
Finger hoes remove weeds from within crop rows (intra-row action) by means of rubber fingers which tackle weeds between crop plants. This ensures that weeds are also controlled where hoeing knives cannot reach.
- Effective shearing off and removal of weeds from rows
- Also burying effect at high ground speeds
- Driven via the steel drive sprocket
- No blockages, as the rubber fingers are mounted underneath the steel sprocket
- Diameter of 220, 340 or 400 mm, depending on row spacing
- Pressure is applied and taken off finger hoes via compression springs to ensure full-surface penetration, which is particularly important in crusted soils and uneven ground
- Finger hoes can be raised when they are not needed
- Optional: hydraulic lifting via Section Control
Mounting positions of finger hoes
The finger weeders can be mounted in variable positions with different levels of intensity against the weeds:
- One behind the other
- Next to each other
- Engaging with each other
Ridging and special tools
Ridging tools bury weeds within crop rows (intra-row action). They build up soil and therefore contribute to strengthening crop plant roots. The crumbler rotor and torsion weeder are additional tools available for special requirements. The SeedHub also enables the sowing of catch crops.
- Can be used with the Combi element
- For row spacings between 45 and 80 cm
- Adjustable guide plates
- Can be used with the Basic and Combi element
- For row spacings between 35 and 80 cm
- With share point for an intensive ridging effect
- Working width adjustment via a turnbuckle
- Can be used with the Basic and Combi element
- Adjustable guide plates
- For row spacings between 40 and 75 cm
- Mounted to the hoeing knive
- Can be used with the Basic element
- Uproots small perennial weeds and breaks up crusted soils
- Intra-row tool for sensitive crops
- Main action by burying small weeds in rows
The EC-Weeder can be combined with the SeedHub catch crop seeder.
- Enables hoeing and undersowing in a single pass
- Reliable incorporation of undersown seeds thanks to the trailing harrow
