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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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Landoll 875-25 Tilloll Good & Bad
