Claydon Terrastar
The Claydon TerraStar, like the company’s Straw Harrow, creates an ideal shallow tilth which encourages volunteers and weeds, including blackgrass and broom, to chit, while also assisting with stubble management, slug control, drainage and the incorporation of manures.
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The Claydon TerraStar, like the company’s Straw Harrow, creates an ideal shallow tilth which encourages volunteers and weeds, including blackgrass, to chit, while also assisting with stubble management, slug control, drainage and the incorporation of manures.
The TerraStar is fast and effective and incorporates a minimum of wearing parts, making for extremely low-cost operation.
Moving more soil than the Claydon Straw Harrow, the TerraStar still leaves the soil structure intact as it plucks only divots from the top layer of soil leaving the profile undisturbed.
The 80mm² square divots are created by rotating “star” points fitted in a 200mm grid pattern to two knife bars on each side of the machine. These star points dig pockets of soil and create a fine tilth, levelling the field and leaving the soil surface largely intact to carry machines whilst encouraging volunteers and grass weeds to germinate and helping water to drain from the surface layer. The shallow tilth can then be moved by the Claydon Straw Harrow, breaking off germinating plants at the one-leaf stage, eliminating the need to spray while ground conditions allow harrowing.
The TerraStar’s depth wheels ensure precise depth control for multiple passes. The implement can be used as a mechanical weeder, reducing the need for glyphosate, making stubble management much easier and cutting slug populations.
The TerraStar is also ideal for mulching/incorporating crop or other residues and can be used to help level fields and produce more uniform seed beds, not only in unmoved soil, but behind any other cultivation equipment.
The TerraStar is fast and effective and, like the other machines in the Claydon range, incorporates a minimum of wearing parts, making for extremely low-cost operation. In addition to the standard TerraStar, there is an option to fit green following harrows on the rear and depth wheels.
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Claydon Direct Seed Drills
Claydon Drills are the most renowned direct strip till seeding system in Europe, giving sustainable high yield results year on year with huge environmental benefits. Their seed drills can be used direct into stubble or cultivated soils giving huge time and cost savings when used as a direct drill.
The leading tine can be adjusted to a depth of between 0 for low disturbance and 15cm (6 inches) for deep rooting crops like OSR. The second tine can be adjusted via the depth wheels to put the seed in as shallow or deep as necessary.
- Centrally mounted depth wheels give very accurate seed placement as they run on undisturbed soil between the rows and do not run over or cap the seeded area.
- Stone protected leading tines break through the ground lifting and aerating it whilst creating a drainage tract and space for the roots to grow deep and strong with ease.
- Solid sprung seeding tines keep a highly accurate and constant seed depth, flowing through the soil lifted by the leading tines and cultivating it whilst only moving for a large stone.
- Levelling boards and tines leave a superbly level finish covering the seedlings in a perfect soil plant pot with drainage and space for root development.
- Fertiliser can be placed below the seed (front tine) or above the seed (rear tine) with the standard tine set up. With the twin tine option, fertiliser can be placed below the seed only.
