Lemken Solitair 9+ Duo seed drill
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The new Solitair 9+ Duo from Lemken with seed and fertilizer placement. Photo: Lemken
Last month, Lemken announced the new “Duo” version of its Solitair 9+ seed drill with a divided seed hopper.
The seed hopper of the Solitair 9+ Duo holds 1,850 litres. Its capacity can be split 50/50 or 60/40, depending on needs. As a result, two application variants are possible:
- In the single-shot version, seeds and fertilizer are combined downstream from the two metering units in each of the two hopper segments. The different components are guided to the double disc coulters via a seed pipe and deposited in a seed furrow. This allows a suitable starting dose of fertilizer to be added for winter sowing or a complete fertilizer application for summer sowing. An automatic tramline mechanism is integrated into the distributors.
- The double-shot system provides greater deposition flexibility. With this system, the two components flow separately to a double disc coulter via doubled distributors in two seed pipes. They can then be spread either in a single row, as with the single-shot method, or separately and alternately in two rows following a quick exchange of the tramline cartridge in the distributor. In addition, the deposition depth of every other row can be adjusted separately via the pressure roller up to a difference of 5 cm. This allows two different seeds to be placed at different, optimum seeding depths or inter-row fertilization to be applied while seeding.
The Solitair 9+ Duo is available in working widths of three and four metres.
Orders are being accepted now with full availability scheduled for January 2022.