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| Hi friends,
I'm looking at a Landoll 875-25 Tilloll soil finisher. Can you give me the good & bad on those tools? I have a couple concerns and questions on it. The front disc gang is fixed or not adjustable for depth control. Would this be a disadvantage? They only use one wheel on the wing frame instead of tandems like on the main frame. Would this be an issue in maintaining stability and uniform depth? What is the main purpose of the chopper reel in the rear? To size residue or clods? I farm in a conventional method here in East Central IL.. The bean stubble ground and the Corn stalks get a pass with a tandem disc in the Fall and in addition the corn ground gets a pass with a disc ripper. Thanks for your help.
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Southwest Illinois | Been a few years since we had one and we had a 30' which is basically the same machine. The good is they will go through just about anything and will do a reasonable job of cutting stuff up and leaving the ground pretty level. I can recall having knee to waist high weeds in standing cornstalks, spraying them and within a week we hit it with a till-oll pulling a double rolling basket and planted the next day. It wasn't always pretty but it worked pretty well. The downside is the lift wheel mechanisms on the wings and the main frame are not built overly heavy. I never found the fixed disc gang to be a problem and at one point we had a Sunflower finisher with the hydraulic disc gang and once it was set we never moved it. The chopping reel sizes clods and cuts residue. We probably ran the reel a little deeper than they suggested but if you could get the reel to engage 2-3 inches of loose dirt it would do a great job. We went to more fall applied and early spring burndown and usually start with cleaner fields than we used to which meant we could get by with a field cultivator which gets across a lot more acres with a lot less horsepower. We had 400hp on our 30' and I thought that was a good match. 300 hp would get the job done but we had to run slower which negates the performance of the tool a bit. I would think you would want 300hp on a 25 footer. They say 10hp per foot but if you have much clay or any rolling ground 10 hp/foot is probably not enough. |
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Northwest Indiana | I have one, does a good job. Seemed to struggle keeping wings at a level depth compared to mainframe. Eventually replaced all the lift cylinders, made it a whole new machine.. Pull it with a Cat 45 as fast as you want to drive.. Not built very heavy as compared to a Deere. Barker Implement stocks every part you could ever need for one, Josh knows them well... |
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| We used to pull a 25' with an 8630 JD. It handled it just fine at 6-7mph. Like someone else said, it seemed to work better tilted back some. A welder is a must if you get one. Still a very good tool. We went to hipping or we would still be using it. |
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Coles County, Illinois | They're popular where people aren't able to do fall tillage. I've seen them going thru solid 3' tall patches of weeds and not plug. The rear reel helps keep the green "straw" on top where it will dry out quicker. Downside is it's probably the hardest pulling secondary tillage tool and one needs to pull it fairly fast. Neighbor also says they're expensive to maintain.
Edited by Herbie56 2/7/2018 19:25
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cropsey, il 61731 | I have a 875-30 and it's been the best finisher we've had (previous - older sunflower, modern flow). The only issues with mine are the smaller hubs it uses on the main frame lift wheels. The 876 fixed this with larger hubs (went from 6 bolt to 8 bolt). It's interesting that the landoll is generally shorter front to back than other finishers yet, I've found, it deals with trash much better. Of course you can get in situations where it bunches, but it's usually a situation where nothing would work very well. |
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Amboy, IL | I have a 876-35C for sale in the Classifieds 2008 Green Power Coated from the factory. I like it, but I've switched to mainly No till. |
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Landoll 875-25 Tilloll Good & Bad
