Opico sward lifter
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The Sward lifter is available with hydraulic auto reset for extremely stoney conditions. An individual ram on each leg that's connected to a gas accumulator allows the leg to break back and reset if it comes into contact with an immovable object. As the legs are adjusted deeper the leverage on the hydraulic reset ram increases. To compensate for this the Sward Lifter has a pressure adjusting valve and pressure gauge to allow the operator to set the force required for the leg to break back thus suiting various types of working conditions. Hydraulic Auto Reset version - developed for stoney conditions “ I turned my animals out to grass three weeks early thanks to the new Sward Lifter ” We had 25 acres that had been compacted from where we had cut silage and on headlands where we had run a lot of animals. The grass looked pretty stale and wasn't growing well. We subsoiled certain pieces with the Sward Lifter and it just let the water through! You could see a real difference through the winter - the ground has been a lot more free-draining. Robert Parrish Hassendean Burn Farm, Hawick. Sward Lifter Specifications Sward Lifter Grassland Subsoiler Model No. Sward Lifter Grassland Subsoiler - Hydraulic Reset Model No. YOUR LOCAL OPICO DEALER OPICO Ltd, Cherry Holt Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9LA Telephone: 01778 421111 E-mail: ask@opico.co.uk Website: www.opico.co.uk Profit from our knowlodgo LIFTER Sward Lifter OPICO Profit from our knowledge

OPICO’s Grassland Subsoiler Open subsoil, better drainage, more grass Depth and Pressure Adjustment POOR DRAINAGE Many farms suffer from poor quality swards even if they plough and re-seed regularly. Fields with heavy traffic have a problem with soil becoming compacted preventing adequate drainage through silaging, livestock damage, and through the weather capping and sealing the soil surface. With the ground waterlogged it can be too wet for spring operations such as slurry and muck spreading, harrowing, fertilising and overseeding. This means livestock cannot be put out to graze which in...