Testing a new tool: harrowing stubbles

At this moment, we are harrowing the stubble. This year, we have tested a new tool before performing the chissel plough task. In Albacete and its area, a destructive beam is used to leave wrecked the stubble. Regarding this task, some farmers told us that this step help them to perform a better job and it is much more easy to work with the chissel ploughs after that. This new tool is composed of three beams of 4meters width which are above the ground in order to crush the barley and wheat stems...

Our test was not at all satisfactory, because the effect on the ground was imperceptible, in that way the manufacturer concluded that he have to put more weight on the tool to improve its efficiency. In our village, the stubbles are really resistent, and much more in rainy campaigns,  because of that reason this new tool could not be really appropriate for us. If some of you have tested it, pelase tell us your experiences... Thank you very much.

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Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

After harvesting, Arcusin

When harvesting tasks finish, we have to begin baling and picking bale up jobs before harrowing our stubble. In our village, these tasks are performed by some farmers, who will sell bales to other farmers. In our case, the Rosado brothers have baled our stubble this year. They used their trucks to pick up our grain and we give them our straw. As they told us, they are baling about 25,000 bales per year, so they need to have the best machinery if they want to have done these jobs quickly, easily and cheap.

While they were picking up bales, we could see how their Arcusin Auto Stack FS 72-81 trailer worked. We saw this job in the first time and it was impressive. It works completely automatically so it allows them to pick up, only with one person, a lot of bales in a sort time. This trailer is robotic to load and unload. You can see a video from here.

After that, while they are building the bale overcrowding, they use a Merlo P 26.6 L-P telehandler to load their trucks. They distribute bales to farmers who buy them throughout the year, in Murcia area especially because they are from Bullas town. You can see other video about this job from here.

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Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)