Marathon points
Ensure a consistent work result, leading to the optimal conditions for crop establishment, maximizing yield potential.
- Reinforced with tungsten carbide
- 8-10 times longer service life compared to standard points, thanks to Wolfram carbide
- Maintained shape ensures a correct attack angle
- Perfect ratio of steel/hard metal optimizes service life
- Optimal length and width maintain perfect soil volume and mix
- Saves both money and time
- More value, adding time in the field and less time dealing with worn parts
- Significantly longer service life than traditional points
- Always the correct working depth over the entire cultivator’s working width
CAD 154.00 msrp
Marathon 50mm For TopDown s/n 1650-. Art. No: 498382.
CAD 175.00 msrp
Marathon 50/80mm For TopDown s/n 1650-. Art. No: 205006.
CAD 182.00 msrp
Marathon 80mm For TopDown s/n 1650-. Art. No: 498383.
What point to choose according to soil type?
Soil type has a strong influence over the choice of point. The key function of a point is breaking up compactions and incorporating residues. In lighter soils, which tend to self-compact, the priority is to maximize root penetration. Heavier soils generally have a good structure, facing the risk of clod forming during cultivating.
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BreakMix
TThe BreakMix point is primarily intended for farms with heavier soils with the risk of compaction. BreakMix - breaks and mixes at the same time.
- Mixes residues at optimum depth
- Avoids pulling up clods to the surface
- Eliminates compactions and pans
- Enables water transport both upwards and downwards
- Gives roots easy access to deeper layers
Two tasks combined in one point
BreakMix point combines compaction breaking and intensive mixing, improving agronomic results, lowering costs, and offering versatility. Ideal for primary or secondary tillage on farms with heavy soils prone to compaction.
Mixes at optimum depth Since the bacteria and fungi are most active in the topsoil, we want to mix residues in the top 10cm of the soil for a faster decomposition. By not mixing at depth, BreakMix avoids pulling up clods to the surface.
Expert on compaction Breaking at depth eliminates compactions and pans, while also enabling water transport two ways – both upwards and downwards.
CAD 184.00 msrp
BreakMix For TopDown s/n 1650-. Art. No: 240180.
Combinations allow tailored moisture management
Shallow – with wing shares and DeepLoosening.
Medium depth – BreakMix only.
Deep – combined with DeepLoosening.
DeepLoosening
Many soils have compaction layers often caused by repetitive cultivations at the same depth: for example, with a plow. The subsoiling DeepLoosening Marathon point, adds breaking capacity down to 40cm depth.
- Loosens compactions
- Restores water transportation
- Gives roots access to deeper soil layers
- Enables better drainage of fields and increases yield potential.
- Using a cultivator for the task saves an additional pass with
- a subsoiler
- Hard metal wolfram carbide plates extend the lifetime dramatically
DeepLoosening Marathon point
The DeepLoosening Marathon point adds breaking capacity down to 40cm depth for TopDown and Opus cultivators when combined with cultivation.
The DeepLoosening Marathon point subsoils down to 40cm depth, saving an extra operation by combining it with cultivation. It breaks deep compactions, improves water uptake, and aerates soil for better root access and nutrient release. It complements the main point of the machine when fitted below and behind the tines of the last row.
CAD 405.00 msrp
DeepLoosening For TopDown s/n 1650-. Art. No: 231773.
Combine DeepLoosening Marathon point with a full range of Väderstad points.
- Combined with the LowDisturbance point, it only breaks the soil avoiding clods being brought to the surface.
- Combined with a mixing point 50-120mm, provides deep drainage and capillarity restoration down to 40cm depth, while fully mixing down to 30cm depth.
- Mounted together with the unique BreakMix point, DeepLoosening allows the top soil to be mixed while breaking down to 40cm depth.
- Breaks up dense soil layers. Improves drainage.
- Cultivates and mixes to depth.
Shallow depth combinations
Wing shares BreakMix – DeepLoosening.
Shallow depth combinations
Wing shares mixing point – DeepLoosening.
Medium depth combination (up to 25cm deep)
120mm point – DeepLoosening.
Subsoil depth combinations (up to 40cm deep). DeepLoosening mounted on back row only.
Low disturbance – DeepLoosening.
BreakMix – DeepLoosening.
Mixing Point – DeepLoosening.
Wear Metal
Farmer: David Jones Location: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK Crops: Winter wheat, winter linseed, winter barley, spring beans, spring wheat Farm size: 1100 ha
What is the purpose of tine cultivation?
The tine cultivator is an important tool in various farming systems. Its agronomic performance includes important tasks such as mixing and loosening the soil, removing yield-reducing compactions, creating fine soil, promoting root reconsolidation, and minimizing problems caused by slugs, mice and problematic insects.
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Plough plays second fiddle to the TopDown as key cultivator
Rising production costs coupled with pressure on cultivation timeliness and labour availability, has led Lincolnshire arable farmer Tim Horner of Holme Farm, Tetney to review the use of his plough as a key cultivator in favour of a more flexible and faster disc/tined-based cultivation system, without compromising yield and quality.
Mr Horner operates a mixed farm enterprise with 485ha of medium to heavy clay soils supporting arable crops including wheat, barley, spring barley, oilseed rape, spring oats and beans. Cereals are grown for feed and average yields are 10t/ha.
For many years the plough has been the primary cultivator, which has been used successfully to keep on top of blackgrass and facilitate the over wintering of mostly heavy and challenging soils.
Blackgrass is managed but is an on-going problem says Mr Horner, so the introduction of spring crops alongside herbicides and a change in cultural practices has helped keep the problem under control.
“We use cultivations to move the soil and keep it aerated,” he says. “We are not advocates of the strip tillage approach to crop establishment because it can create cloddy seedbeds. Our plough is now only used on about 40% of the fields each year, while the majority goes under the TopDown.
“Our land is best cultivated early and left to weather for at least six weeks,” he explains. “All our straw is baled and sold to livestock farmers and some is kept for bedding down our own cattle herd.”
The TopDown is designed to slice up the entire soil surface, mix in harvest residues and loosen to depth, all in a single pass using Vaderstad’s System Disc in front, followed by tines at 27cm spacing for good mixing and to provide a level surface finish. Then the packer offers consolidation, which can be very important on heavier soils, especially when wet.
Mr Horner always aims to plough the spring cropped land as early in the autumn as possible, leaving it open to help drainage over the winter period when it often rains. Average annual rainfall is 585mm.
Ideally ploughed land is then cultivated with the farm's Vaderstad Rexius Twin to create a suitable seedbed for the 6m Rapid drill in the spring. The Rexius is a very well built machine, like all kit that is made by Vaderstad, he says.
Land prepped for winter crops is subsoiled to remove compaction if necessary and is cultivated with the TopDown. Depending on the seedbed quality fields are cultivated with the Rexius Twin but if further cultivation is not necessary, then it is straight in with the Rapid drill.
The oilseed rape land is cultivated in August with the TopDown and drilled with wheat in October.
“Direct drilling doesn't work as a whole on this farm and I'm not convinced that it would be the right approach for us,” explains Mr Horner. “It would be great to sell all the cultivation kit, but it just isn't feasible. We drill oilseed rape straight into stubbles with the sub-soiler and a Stocks applicator.
“We also tried several other cultivators to compare against the TopDown, but nothing really comes close to it for mixing trash and working at different levels. I like its versatility too, so we can use it like a Carrier or the packer can be lifted out of work to produce soils with an open finish.
“Our TopDown works shallow and deep but generally we work down to about six inches. For shallow work at depths of about one inch we just use the discs,” he explains.
“Our TopDown is fitted with hard wearing and durable tungsten tipped Marathon points on the tines, which means that they retain the working angle even as they wear, which is ideal in wet soils. We only changed our original points last year despite employing the TopDown over 900ha in three seasons. This is our first TopDown, which is now five years old. ”
Machinery portfolio:
- 7 furrow plough
- 5m TopDown
- 6.2m Rexius Twin
- 6m Rapid Drill
- Flatliner subsoiler
- Power harrow
- 4.25m Simba discs
Durable points maximise your work result
Väderstad’s cultivating points are specially designed and optimised for our machines in order to maximise your work result.
High-quality points
Väderstad’s cultivating points are specially designed and optimized for our machines in order to maximize your work result.
- Perfect fit – optimal attack angle and fitting to the tine
- Pointed tip – better penetration and depth keeping
- Best material choice – Swedish steel grants a longer service life
- Thickness – increased wear steel, keeping the working depth up to 20 percent longer than a non-brand competitor
- All Väderstad’s points are developed, produced and tested by Väderstad
- Having our own production, we are the only manufacturer with 100 percent control of the final products
- This is unique in the market. By this means, the same top-of-the-line product philosophy is guaranteed for all Väderstad farm machinery and genuine parts
CAD 37.50 msrp
50mm point For TopDown. Art. No: 155027.
CAD 45.50 msrp
50/80mm point For TopDown. Art. No: 188623.
CAD 46.90 msrp
80mm point For TopDown. Art. No: 155028.
CAD 60.90 msrp
80/120mm point For TopDown. Art. No: 233999.
CAD 62.90 msrp
120mm point For TopDown. Art. No: 168264.
CAD 107.00 msrp
210mm point For TopDown. Art. No: 172326.
CAD 133.00 msrp
LowDisturbance For TopDown s/n 1650-. Art. No: 485996.
CAD 91.90 msrp
Wing share 8° For TopDown. 340mm. Art. No: 242287.
CAD 91.90 msrp
Wing share 23° For TopDown. 340mm. Art. No: 242285.
Good to know!
340mm with 8° working angle
• Full cut out • Leaving weed and catch crops to dry out on the surface with minimal cultivation intensity • Ideal for organic farming
340mm with 23° working angle
• Full cut out • Leaving weed and catch crops to dry out on the surface with increased cultivation intensity
Point shapes matter
Smooth surfaces win in the long run
Cultivator points are aimed at achieving a set working depth while maximizing mixing efficiency and minimizing fuel consumption. The increasing preference for thicker carbide points to enhance durability should not compromise essential design aspects. Introducing ridges or irregular shapes to improve longevity may result in soil diversion, thereby reducing mixing efficiency and increasing fuel consumption. Smooth surfaces are critical for efficient soil movement and reducing operating costs, much like the blade of a steel shovel or the mirror-like surface of a plough body.
Ridges or pattern on points transport the soil away from the point instead of upwards, as on all Väderstad Points.
What point to choose according to weather?
The weather plays an important role in choosing the right point. Depending on weather conditions, the spade test can help decide whether to drive or wait. Light soils generally remain stable regardless of the weather, while heavy soils can be prepared for extreme weather conditions.
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Choose the right point for the task
Your soil, conditions and working depth should apply in choosing your points. Different soils require different points. And because the climate can change quickly between dry and wet, we recommend you buy several sets of points for the best result.
Medium-Heavy soil basic kit
50/80mm point Soil towards heavy
- First/second pass after stubble cultivation at medium depth -20cm
- High mixing ability of residues
80mm point Soil towards medium
- First/second pass after stubble cultivation at medium depth -20cm
- High mixing ability of residues
50mm point
- Breaking deep cultivation pans + 20cm
- Deep cultivation 20-30cm
- Moist conditions
BreakMix
- Mixes on top, breaks bottom 20-30cm
- Dry conditions to avoid unnecessary crumbling
- Cultivation before tap root crops such as OSR
- Prepare a cultivation bottom able to drain field well
Light soil basic kit
80mm point
- Deep cultivation -20cm
80/120mm point
- Very high mixing ability, i.e. when incorporating manure shallow -10cm first pass
- Second stubble cultivation at 10-12cm
50/80mm point
- Very deep 20-30cm
How to select cultivator point in extreme years?
Access to water is often the most limiting factor for crop development. Optimal point choice should be carefully considered for both extremely dry and extremely wet years. Factors such as crop root development and the amount of residues in the field play crucial roles while choosing the optimal point on a tine cultivator.
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Mixing
To achieve proper mixing, the volume of soil that we bring up is crucial. The amount of soil determines how many residues we can incorporate and to what depth. When determining mixing, the right equation is simple, tighter row distances. Wider points also provide more soil volume. Thinner points improve the material throughflow and reduce the power requirement when going deeper.
Drainage
When looking at the drainage effect, everything is about building up a water pillar. The narrower the track of the point, the faster this will happen. A narrower point will ensure that the field is drained faster than a wider point. The deeper the point the higher the pressure. Väderstad offers many possibilities to tailor the drainage effect and optimize it also towards the other outcomes we want to achieve.
80mm
50-80mm
BreakMix
LowDisturbance
The point tip impacts clod creation
Deeper layers in heavy soils tend to be more compact. If brought to the surface, this results in a high amount of clods. By selecting a point with a narrow tip, a finer tilth is created, thus saving additional soil preparation.
A seedbed should have at least 50% very fine frictions.
More volume mixed on heavy soils
Heavy soils leave a wider cone after the point: therefore, a reduced point width can produce the same soil volume compared to light soils.
Heavy soils leave a winder cone after the point: therefore, a reduced point width can produce the same soil volume compared to light soils.
Good to know!
Collar nut - Makes the work easier
• Full cut out • Leaving weed and catch crops to dry out on the surface with increased cultivation intensity
