Gessner Patriot - Universal, Hard-Wearing Parallelogram Tyne Planter
Gessner’s Patriot parallelogram tyne planter is purpose-built to perform in Australia’s tough growing conditions, providing an optimal, hard-wearing planting solution to Australian farmers. The Gessner Patriot parallelogram tyne planter is purpose-built to perform in Australia’s tough growing conditions, providing an optimal, hard-wearing planting solution for Australian farmers. This unique planter is designed with versatility, quality and strength at its core, accommodating most soil types across Australia’s diverse grain-producing regions. Ranging in working widths of 12m to 36m, or customised to suit your required width, the Patriot parallelogram tyne planter is designed to accommodate row-spacings from 250mm to 500mm.
Using heavy plate steel and RHS, the strength of the Gessner Patriot parallelogram planter is unrivalled, enabling planting in tough and marginal conditions, maximising yield potential and minimal downtime for decades. Good underframe and trash clearance completes the package.
Plus it’s designed for ease of transport with the 12m Patriot parallelogram planter engineered to be delivered in one standard sized load. It can be assembled by just two people and a telehandler in as little as three hours.
- Hydraulic break-out ranging from 300lb to 700lb
- An underframe clearance of 900mm
- Heavy-duty fabricated parallelogram with a 500mm range of travel; 200mm down, 300mm up (from working height)
- A range of press wheel widths,profiles and compounds with packing pressure up to 200lb
- Versatile precision shank with single, dual, paired-row and liquid injection outlet options
- Seeding depth of up to 150mm, adjustable in 6mm increments.
- Heavy-duty dual acting cylinder featuring hard-chrome shafts
- Hardened chrome pins and oil infused bushes in all pivot points
- Planter frame supported by large floatation tyres mounted on castor frames at the front, and fixed mounts at the rear
- 300mm transport clearance
- Grade 8 high tensile fasteners
- Unit weight 80kg
Floating hitch frame configurations
- 12m 3 Section Single Fold.
- 18m 5 Section Single Fold.
- 18m 5 Section Double Fold.
- 24m 5 Section Single Fold.
- 24m 5 Section Double Fold.
- 36m 7 Section (with Optional End-tow).
Each frame features three 100mm x 100mm x 9mm toolbars which are designed to accommodate row-spacing of 250mm, 300mm, 333mm, 375mm, 400mm or 500mm.