VertiSTRIP™ - Hawkins Ag

VertiSTRIP™

Vertical-Till + Strip-Till Seedbed Management.

Overview

The VertiSTRIP™ is the ultimate tool for residue management, seedbed preparation, and fertilizer incorporation. Its unique design combines the unique benefits of strip tillage and vertical tillage principles, giving you the ultimate high-speed, dual season, easy to use, in-cab adjustable seedbed management tool available today.

Overview

The VertiSTRIP is the ultimate tool for residue management, seedbed preparation, and fertilizer incorporation. Its unique design combines the unique benefits of strip tillage and vertical tillage principles, giving you the ultimate high-speed, dual season, easy to use, in-cab adjustable seedbed management tool available today.

Revive Fall Strips

Fall-made strips can often be stale, cloddy, cold and even wet. The VertiSTRIP™ cleans, fertilizes, vertically tills, and finishes these strips to warm and create the ideal seedbed to plant into.

Build New Strips

New strips are no problem with VertiSTRIP™. Pneumatic row cleaners handle tough crop residue, while the coulters vertically till anywhere from 2″–6″ in depth, helping to make the perfect new seed zone for your crop.

Why VertiSTRIP™?

  • High-speed operation of 6-10 mph
  • Aggressive seedbed soil mixing
  • In-cab adjustable row cleaners and finishing tools
  • Minimizes horizontal soil layers for better root growth
  • Warms up cold/damp soils before planting
  • Wrench-less machine adjustments
  • Vertically tills the seedbed for increased water infiltration
  • Rootzone fertilizer placement and nutrient mixing
  • Common greaseless bearings, reducing daily maintenance

In the Field

Clear the Way

Poor residue management is costly, and problems like poor emergence due to hairpinned residue in your strips is avoidable with the Trailblazer™ row cleaners on the VertiSTRIP™.

Take it Head On

The Trailblazer™ row cleaners are built to handle the roughest conditions you can push it into. The Finger tooth residue managers and depth wheels are mounted on dual sealed bearings that require zero daily maintenance or greasing.

Stay in Your Seat

The pneumatic Trailblazer™ row cleaners automatically adjust to contours and conditions in your fields, eliminating the need to adjust field to field, keeping you in the cab and covering acres.

Stay in Your Seat

The pneumatic Trailblazer™ row cleaners automatically adjust to contours and conditions in your fields, eliminating the need to adjust field to field, keeping you in the cab and covering acres.

Rugged & Reliable

Triple-lip sealed bearings in the massive parallel arms are made to handle the roughest environments, and the wrench free down-pressure adjustment is quick and simple to adjust to your conditions.

Follow the Land

Independent depth wheels on each row follow the ground surface effortlessly no matter the terrain, allowing you to till and place your nutrients where they belong.

Great Emergence, Great Roots, Great Yields

The VertiSTRIP™ eliminates yield-limiting seedbed variability by breaking up clods and compaction and creating a more consistent seedbed environment helping to maximize your yields.

Ideal Seedbeds

With a coulter spacing of 3.5″, the unique coulter layout on the VertiSTRIP™ works the full seed zone profile to give you the ideal seedbed to plant into.

Simple & Robust

Large handle, wedge lock, and positive depth positioning teeth make the Hawkins VertiSTRIP™ simple and quick to adjust. Not to mention no greasing, and less parts for more reliability.

Pick Your Tillage

The VertiSTRIP™ has two coulter options for tailoring your machine to your operation. A traditional Wavy Blade and our VT Blade to get the most out of your VertiSTRIP™.

  • Diameter – 18″
  • Thickness – 4.5 MM
  • Wave Width – 1″
  • # of Waves – 13
  • Diameter – 18″
  • Thickness – 5 MM
  • Wave Width – .75″
  • # of Waves – 20

High-Efficiency Seedbeds

Creating a clod free, uniform seedbed finish is essential for efficient high-speed planting and uniform emergence. With the Optimizer Finishing System you can make adjustments on the fly to help maximize your planter pass, emergence and ultimately your yield.

Don't stop, adjust on the fly

Easily adapt to varying soil types and conditions quickly with in-cab, adjustable, pneumatic down pressure. The Optimizer Finishing System puts on-the-go control in your hands… without a wrench & from the cab.

Have it Your Way

Not all soils are created equal, and the one-size-fits-all approach available from OEMs doesn’t begin to fit all your needs. The VertiSTRIP™ is available with three different finishing options to allow you to tailor your finish to your field.

Stop Plugging, Keep Rolling

The Optimizer Baskets’ 16″ diameter cleated baskets are engineered with an open center design to reduce plugging in wet conditions and to keep you stripping.

Mulch, Shed & Firm Your Strip

Tough & sticky soils create their own set of challenges for most strip till baskets on the market, causing them to plug or leaving behind a rumble strip with their horizontal basket bars. The Steel Wheel option gives a better mulch effect with many points of contact, and easily sheds mud, firming the soil.

Firm the Soil, Seal in Moisture

Sandy soils and dry conditions can be tricky to manage in strip till. The Rubber Press Wheel option helps to firm the strip and seal in moisture, giving you a great seedbed with increased moisture to help in germination.

Precision Fertilizer Placement

Why spread fertilizer across the entire field if you are only planting rows every couple of feet? Don’t. VertiSTRIP™ gives you the ability to band dry and liquid fertilizers right where the plants’ roots are going to need them, letting you minimize your inputs, and maximize your yields.

Inject It

The dual-tube liquid fertilizer system injects your liquid fertilizer on each side of the row. With multiple adjustment options you can put your fertilizer precisely where you want it.

Blend It

By placing your dry fertilizer directly in front of the rear coulters, you can effectively distribute and blend the fertilizer across your strip profile.

Bulletproof Frame

With dual 7×7 frame members, deep hinges and massive hinge pins the VertiSTRIP™ frame is built to handle the rigors of Strip-Till.

Transport Easy

The vertical fold system allows for in-field flexibility, and reduced transport widths when heading down the road.

Hitch-&-Go

The VertiSTRIP™ features massive dual hitch design capable of CAT 3 and 4N Hitching. Allowing quick tractor swaps and hookups with no worry of your tractor hitch setting.

  • Rigid
    • 4 Row 20″/22″/30″/36″/38″/40″
    • 6 Row 20″/22″/30″/36″/38″/40″
    • 8 Row 20″/22″/30″/36″/38″/40″
    • 12 Row 20″/22″
  • Folding
    • 12 Row 22″/30″/36″/38″/40″
    • 16 Row 20″/22″/30″
    • 18 Row 30″
  • Don’t see what you need?
    • Call 1-308-708-8185 or Email, and we will look at options we can offer to create your ideal VertiSTRIP™.

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