Cross Slot: Gallery

A folding Cross Slot drill in transport mode with a 3m road width.

A 4.5m folding Cross Slot drill on narrow rows (150mm/6") in New Zealand.

A 4.6m folding Cross Slot drill working in near Polva,Estonia

Locally manufactured 6m folding drill with Cross Slot openers working in South Africa.

Delegates at the 2011 Cross Slot Conference and Field Tour got the opportunity to visit the farm of Alan and Sharron Davie-Martin. The Davie-Martins had just been announced supreme winners of the 2011 Australasian Dairy Business of the Year Awards. They use local Cross Slot contractor Andrew Wright for all their seeding.

45ft (14m) Cross Slot toolbar folded. Note the dual transport wheels on either side of the main frame and the dual wheels on each wing.

Two identical 3m rigid Cross Slot drills on 15cm/6" row spacings in Norway.

A 4.5m folding Cross Slot drill with twin granule/bait hopper option and on-board Hiab crane for bulk bags.

Note the simple opener folding system that allows this Cross Slot machine to seed 3m and have the same transport width.

Cross Slot doesn't just make larger drills and toolbars. This fully-equipped 3m (10ft) drill has all the features of the larger machines.

18m Cross Slot toolbar showing the double-fold (5-plex) design.

Filling a 9m folding Cross Slot drill in South Australia.

The resulting emerging crop (see previous photo).

Building soil quality with continuous Cross Slot no-tillage since 1998

A true no-tillage system starts at harvest. A stripper header fits well in a Cross Slot system.

Cover cropping in action! Drilling Linseed into rye.

And here is the Linseed emerging 22 days after seeding.

BASE farmer group checks out Cross Slot drilling in Ireland (November). Note it is wet but there is no mud on their boots!