Shoot Remover
Horizontal flail or ribbon desuckering machines used mainly for viticulture, but also useful for other types of crops.
In fact, we find two versions:
* mechanical version used to eliminate the shoots growing on the stocks of the vines
* hydraulic version suitable for Guyot and low spurred-cordon vineyards
Shoot-remover with whips mainly used in viticulture, yet useful also in other types of cultivation.
Rotofil has the function of eliminating the shoots growing on the trunks in general. the operation of shoot-removal allows also the elimination of the wed along the row, between the plants, without damaging the fruit bearing shoots.
The operation also allows, with excellent results, the removal of weeds along the row, between plant and plant, without damaging the shoots with the fruit.
The machine is set up for the universal three-point attachment of the rear lift. The axis of the desuckering roller is designed obliquely with respect to the row, so as to widen the field of action on the grassy ground and at the same time make the desuckering operation more delicate.
The suckering machine is equipped with two hydraulic controls, one for adjusting the working height of the flail roller, the other for lateral movement (0.45 m) of the suckering unit. It is also equipped with an “adjustable” carter (hydraulically upon request) which limits the extension of the flails for the Guyot trained vine.
Replacement of flagella is rapid.
Hydraulic Shoot Removing unit for vineyards: the ideal tool for the soft removal of the shoots from the trunk of the vines and the weed growing under the rows.
Hydraulic Shoot Removing unit for vineyards: the ideal tool for the soft removal of the shoots from the trunk of the vines and the weed growing under the rows. This unit was designed to be mounted on the suitable frame, both on the front of the tractor and on the side in single (or double) version with a special flange or on the universal rear hoister of any tractor with rear connection.
In the picture, it is presented with a specific frame for the front assembly on tractor without hoisters. The same frame can also support the “RapidLam13” Inter-row Blade using a coulter or a disc (digging out and/or covering the foot of the plant).
The most interesting feature of the equipment is that it supports two rapidly interchangeable shoot removing shafts. This exclusive feature allows the complete cleaning of the plant and the soil under the rows without using chemicals.
In fact, one of the shafts is equipped with heavy rubber whips – flat-shaped, forked and rounded at the ends with rapid “push&pull” connection and disconnection system – and this allows optimizing the spring intervention with young grass and a big quantity of shoots, while the second one, smaller aluminium roll bearing round nylon whips of small dimension, is aggressive enough on the grass to better remove the weed in summer and the few shoots remained after the first passage.
This configuration of the shoot remover allows operating on vineyards with both strong weeds and shoots in big quantity during the whole vegetation stage of the vines without damaging or shocking the plant. This is obtained also thanks to an “oil control” system for the rotation speed regulation depending on the type of shredding shaft used and the conditions of the weeds at the moment of the intervention.
In the picture, it is presented with a specific frame for the front assembly on tractor without hoisters. The same frame can also support the “RapidLam13” Inter-row Blade using a coulter or a disc (digging out and/or covering the foot of the plant).
The most interesting feature of the equipment is that it supports two rapidly interchangeable shoot removing shafts.
This exclusive innovation makes the cleaning of the plant and the sub-row definitive, without the use of chemical herbicides.
