AUSTRIAN machinery manufacturer Pottinger is launching a unit which combines some of its drill and cultivators into a useful one-pass outfit.

To be known as the Multiline system, it brings together a compact disc harrow, or stubble cultivator with Pottinger seed drills. The result, it said, is a cost-effective, high-performance mulch drilling technology that can be used with lighter arable tractors.

Its Terradisc Multiline is available in working widths of 3 and 4m. The cultivation unit can either be a Terradisc compact disc harrow, or the Synkro 3030 stubble cultivator – in both cases, they come with a new tyre packer.

The machine is trailed using a drawbar attached to Cat III low linkage. Combined with a seed drill, it offers an ideal alternative among mulch seed technology.

The tyre packer element carries the weight of the machine and only the supported load acts on the tractor. This means that it is possible to use the machine without front ballast and with lighter tractors, according to Pottinger.

Its offset wheel configuration reduces compaction, with the machine is raised using the tyre packer. A ground clearance of 27cm allows smooth turns at the headland and on the road.

Pottinger said that either the Vitasem ADD or Aerosem ADD seed drills can be installed above the packer roller on both the compact disc harrow and the stubble cultivator. The drill can be fitted or removed easily, depending on whether the trailed machine is to be used on its own or not.