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Turbulent 3
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Owners’ Experience
powiat Vas
450 ha
Mr. Gyula Takács, SHR
We cultivate about 450 hectares in the Transdanubian region in Vas
county. The main crops we grow are winter wheat, barley, rape and
sunfl ower. Our fi rst Farmet machine was a K 600 PS II which arrived at our
farm in 2007. We were very satisfi ed with this seedbed preparer so since
then we have been taking the Farmet machine assortment into
consideration when purchasing new machinery. Stubble breaking was
done with a traditional disc harrow at our fi rm in the past. We knew the
harmful eff ects of disc harrows on the soil, so we decided to search for
other, more eff ective ways.
In 2009, on the basis of good experience with another Farmet machine,
we bought a Turbulent 3 machine which changed our soil cultivation
methods radically. We operate the Turbulent with a Massey Ferguson 8460
tractor for stubble breaking with an approximate working depth of 18 cm.
The average fuel consumption is 9–10 l/ha, which is 4–5 litres less than
that of our old disc harrow. It is very important that Turbulent has got
a very intensive mixing eff ect, the machine can handle the plant residues
well and the rear double rubber-tyred roller consolidates the soil so that it
is compact and levelled. In the past we had to use a roller with another
tractor for this work. This year we are going to use the cultivator instead
of our plough for the fi rst time and we are sure that the quality of the work
will be excellent similarly to the experience of other farmers.