New development company Kverneland Group – openers for tilled seed drills with the addition of tungsten carbide – allows you to increase the life of the body work is almost 2.5 times.

Direct contact with the soil openers are under constant pressure and actually become a consumable, requiring replacement after a certain period of time. The frequency of such operations depends on the composition of the soil: the more abrasive particles, the faster decreases the resource of working bodies. Especially great wearability openers in soils with a high content of sand and stones. And the usual opener with cast iron tip when working on these soils (especially in areas of higher load for the tractor wheels), can wear out during a season.

To increase the interval of operation of the working bodies on tilled seeders designed know-how company Kverneland Group – carbide layers on the sock with the addition of tungsten carbide.

So, the tests conducted by the company Kverneland Group in one of the farms of the agricultural holding "KDV group" in the Orel region proved that mounted behind the tractor wheels to the sowing machine Kverneland Monopill SE normal opener when sowing sugar beet on sandy soil required the replacement of approximately 800 hectares, while equipped with a surfacing worked to wear 2000 ha. That is due to the additional increased durability of the Shoe increased by about 2.5 times.

"The new openers with extended life suitable for row crop planters working in all regions of Russia, but especially opportunities for savings they open up in households where there are soils with a high content of abrasive substances like sand and stones, – concluded Ivan Bakunin, head of spare parts Department of "Kverneland group CIS". In the modern realities this is an additional opportunity to reduce the burden on the budget, at least when changing the working bodies".