Marathon points save both time and money
Väderstad’s Marathon point range is reinforced by one of the hardest metals in the world – which provides up to 10 times longer working life.
Marathon points provide both strength and efficiency, ensuring your machine has optimal function throughout the field. They are equipped with hard metal plates made from wolfram carbide, which reduces the overall wear and damage. Our unique fastening technique in two angles increases the durability even more. The Marathon Points are mainly used for deep cultivation machines but can also be used to create seedbeds.
90,9 € rrp
Marathon 50mm For Cultus, Opus, TopDown s/n 1650- and Swift. Art. No: 498382.
103 € rrp
Marathon 50/80mm For Cultus, Opus, TopDown s/n 1650- and Swift. Art. No: 205006.
108 € rrp
Marathon 80mm For Cultus, Opus and TopDown s/n 1650-. Art. No: 498383.
83,5 € rrp
Marathon Edge 50/80mm For Swift. Art. No: 269630.
The new Marathon Edge 50/80mm
The Marathon Edge-series of the Marathon points are characterised by their thinner body. This improves the soil searching ability which positively impacts the depth keeping in difficult conditions.
Therefore, they are the first choice on vibrating tines such as Väderstad Swift. Marathon Edge offers app 4 times the working life of a standard point. The Marathon Edge 50/80mm offers a sharper point than the 80mm and can therefore work deeper with maintained draw force requirement. It will enter better in tough conditions. In heavier soils the thinner point bottom lowers the amount of clods created compared to the 80mm point.
- Works deeper with maintained draw force
- Enters better in tougher conditions
- Thinner points penetrate better in tough conditions and reduce clods in heavy soils.
- Perfect Fit to the MixIn shin
- Flat point for optimal soil flow
- Thin, light point, enters the soil easier and maximises the tine vibrations, more fine tilth and better sorting ability
- Sharp shape ensures penetration in tough condition
- Folded hard metal protects against stones
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.
103 € rrp
BreakMix For Cultus, Opus and TopDown s/n 1650-. Art. No: 240180.
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.
240 € rrp
DeepLoosening For Opus and 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. See illustration
- Combined with a mixing point 50-120mm, provides deep drainage and capillarity restoration down to 40cm depth, while fully mixing down to 30cm depth. See illustration
- 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.
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
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.
21,9 € rrp
50mm point For Cultus, Opus, Swift and TopDown. Art. No: 155027.
26,5 € rrp
50/80mm point For Cultus, Opus, Swift and TopDown. Art. No: 188623.
26,9 € rrp
80mm point For Cultus, Opus, Swift and TopDown. Art. No: 155028.
35,5 € rrp
80/120mm point For Cultus, Opus and TopDown. Art. No: 233999.
36,5 € rrp
120mm point For Cultus, Opus and TopDown. Art. No: 168264.
63,9 € rrp
210mm point For Cultus, Opus and TopDown. Art. No: 172326.
53,5 € rrp
Wing share 8° For Cultus, Opus and TopDown. 340mm. Art. No: 242287.
53,5 € rrp
Wing share 23° For Cultus, Opus and TopDown. 340mm. Art. No: 242285.
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.
Set working depth delivered
The tip of the cultivator point should be sharply pointed for optimal performance. Väderstad offers solutions such as the Marathon Edge series, which feature pointed shapes to enhance penetration, particularly beneficial in dry conditions. A pointed shape reduces the force required to hold the tine in place and ensures a consistent working depth, thereby enhancing work quality and harvest potential. Maintaining the set depth is crucial for both performance and fuel efficiency, as altering the working angle can have adverse effects on both.
Sharp points ensures both improved penetration and depth keeping ability.
