Williamson-Agri CT Ripper

We use Michel type tines on our CT deep rippers, because of their design they have maximum soil movement, but have minimum surface disruption. This sounds like a paradox, but seeing is believing, the soil is moved sideways not busted up in the air creating clods, this leaves a level surface that if fully oxygenated. This helps deep bacteria to work better and helps release locked up nutrients.

The curved shape of the tines gives exceedingly good penetration in the hardest of soils. The sideways movement of soil cause by the design of the tines causes a wave as the machine moves through the ground. Tines have replaceable wear plates to stop the tines wearing out, and replaceable points that we can apply tungsten hard facing also, to give maximum wear.

Rear roller is used as a multiple depth control of the ripper via different settings on the arms, transferring weight from the machine on to the roller. Three different types of roller can be supplied: spike roller, cage, and rubber tyred type. All these can be optioned to meet your needs, these run on 50 mm shafts with 50 mm bearings.

This photo was taken 5 days after a single pass with CT tines, at 400mm deep. It can be clearly seen that there has been full soil movement by the death of the plants, and the surface is still level. This is achieved with Michel type tines that cause a sideways movement of soil, shattering any plough pan the full width of the machine.