Strip Till – Generation 3
Make:
Bigham
Model:
Strip Till – Generation 3
Gang Operating Features:
- Welded “tab and slot” frame for durability and reduced weight.
- Optimized tool spacing.
- Extended frame promotes maximum residue and soil flow between tillage components.
- Only three grease zerks per row. Greasing interval is once each operating season.
Parallel Linkage:
- 3/4” pivot bolts.
- Polymer wear bushings keep the linkage assembly tight and never need greasing.
- U-Bolt Rear Mount clamps give more vertical travel.
- Wrap-around clamps keep gangs straight and prevent “walking” in side-draft conditions, and moves the gang forward, making the unit easier to lift.
Auto-Reset Linkage
- Trips the gang in two dimensions when an obstruction is encountered.
- Spring allows gang to rotate. Coulter amplifies action.
- Gang resets automatically.
Front Coulter:
- 1-1/8” Arbor Bolt
- Two heavy 208 series sealed ball bearings with triple-lip seals in each coulter hub.
- Choice of rigid or adjustable depth coulter with easy adjusting handle.
- Optional scrapers
Super Duty Row Cleaner:
- Heavy duty hubs with two disc bedder bearings stand up to tough soil conditions.
- New notched discs clear residue in front of the tillage shank.
- Twisted blades on right- and left-hand discs boost aggressive residue clearing.
Tillage Shank Options:
- Wide variety of shanks to match your tillage and application requirements, all with fertilizer tubes standard.
- Mole knives are available with standard wear cap items and optional heavy duty caps and tube protector shins.
- Heavy optional shanks to meet deeper tillage and application requirements.
Rear Tillage Discs:
- Choose the disc option that matches your Strip Till preference. Penetrate the tillage zone, close the “shank slot,” create a berm, or use disc bedders to form a bed.
- Tillage discs are mounted on twisted flat shanks with a positive hexagon angle pitch
- adjustment feature.
- Each blade is adjustable vertically and laterally on the tool bar.
Rear Basket:
- Basket weldment features 1-1/2” shaft and flange bearings with triple lip seals.
- Seals moisture, breaks up clods and prepares the seedbed.