Incite 5000 is designed to take field from stubble to seed-ready in one pass
Many companies have tried to lay claim to the coveted title of one-pass seed bed preparation tillage tool since cultivation came back into vogue a few years ago.
Prestige and great financial rewards will go to the company with a tillage machine that can take a field directly from post-harvest stubble to final seed bed condition in just one pass. It’s a tall order to fill.
Another contender to the title was unveiled at this month’s National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky, when McFarlane Manufacturing introduced its Incite 5000 Universal Tillage machine.
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As company owner Stan McFarlane listed the many European and North American all-in-one tillage machines that have been introduced recently, he conceded that it’s a complex marketplace and he fully expects his claim to be challenged.
He adds that his target market for the Incite 5000 includes corn and soybean farmers as well as cereal and special crop producers on the northern Great Plains.
“We’ve run it in heavy wheat stubble out in the Midwest, and it does a tremendous job,” he said.
“And of course we’ve run it a lot in the corn soybean states. That’s why we call it the universal tillage tool. It works in all crops.”
McFarlane said the 28 wave concave Incizor blades are made from Ingersoll Boron Alloy steel and designed to run at high speed or go six inches deep or more for conventional disc work.
“We have on-the-go hydraulic adjustment on the disc gang angles, from the cab. You can select three degrees, six degrees or nine degrees on the go. And of course the disc gangs have hydraulic depth adjustment.”
McFarlane said the DuraReel follows the first gang of discs for cross-cutting and mixing. It is also adjustable on the go from the cab.
“The operator can stay in the cab and make all kinds of adjustments for the varying conditions he sees. So he cuts the residue with the first disc, then mixes it in with the reel,” he said.
“The second set of discs cuts it again, and then the harrow and the basket finish the seed bed.”
The Incite evolved from a reel disc machine the company started building seven years ago.
However, the reel disc couldn’t quite do the job anymore with a single pass as crop varieties improved and left more trash. Farmers found they had to make two passes.
“We thought, rather than two passes, why not just double the tool action from the machine by adding another row of adjustable discs. And that’s what the Incite is.”
For more information, contact Stan McFarlane at 800-627-8569 or visit www.flexharrow.com.
