Great Plains DTX300 P16315 - Manual (Page 19)

19 DTX 300
Operating Instructions
4. Adjustment / Operation
The SIMBA DTX 300 is an amalgamation of
time proven, successful Simba designed
components brought together to form this
important development. The DTX 300 has
been designed and produced in conjunction
with the Simba ECOtillage
™
system to
provide a one pass mix with a fissured layer
at disc depth for through drainage and root
access to lower horizons. This enables rapid
drainage and access after rain, creating a
greater effective capacity for moisture
compared to ploughing for the same effective
total depth of cultivation.
In principle, the machine is a subsoiler
followed by an offset disc designed for low
draft, high speed operations. The addition of
a rear mounted roll enables effective
cultivation in one pass. The key to the DTX
300’s success are the tines which maintain
shatter across the full width of cultivation. This
is followed by the discs that cultivate the soil
surface and minimise and clod formation.
Finally, the rear roll consolidates the surface,
cracks any clods and firms the soil profile after
the rear discs complete mixing to depth. This
starts the ‘top down’ cultivation process,
retaining weathered tilth in the surface level
for stale seedbed purposes. The corrugated
top and shattered lower horizons are left fully
weatherproof to any conditions between
cultivation and drilling whilst retaining moisture
below the surface for rapid straw breakdown
and optimum establishment of the next crop.