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Skidder with Mounder
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Skidder is 1993 Model 648E.  Completely rebuilt at Brandt in Edmonton, Alberta 2 years ago, 1100 hours on rebuild.  Flotation tires & chains, GPS.  Mounder is Butler Inline Mounder, very good condition.  Done 1100 hectares.

Phone 1-306-222-2240 or email: kenf@familyfarmers.com

 

 

  

Mounder:
The wheel has rotated and locked to begin a new mound.  The last mound is compressed under the trailing tooth.  A sensor in the hub monitors the angle of the leading tooth and activates the locking mechanism when the tooth is at the proper cutting angle.
Down pressure is applied and the screef begins.  The down function is infinitely adjustable by the operator on the go.  The mound will abort if the tooth meets an obstacle solid enough to override an adjustable pressure valve.
The screef continues.  Spacing is programmed into the microprocessor on the electric panel.  A proximity sensor on the driveshaft counts driveshaft rotations and sends the count to the microprocessor.  The microporcessor can be set to a long distance and a continuous screef will be cut with the depth controlled by the down pressure.
The humus layer falls ahead as the wheel is unlocked.  The hinge remains attached and the mineral soil begins to drop.
The wheel continues to roll.
The up/down cylinder on the arm is automatically switched from down pressure to float.  The weight of the arm will remain on the mound to form and compress.
The wheel completes the rotation, the arm is forced up and the tooth is rotating instead of moving forward.  This leaves the hinge attached as the tooth drags the mineral soil over the organic.
The wheel has locked and down pressure applied to begin a new mound.
Mounds:
  • evenly spaced
  • attached hinge
  • inverted mineral over humus
  • 3" to 4" mineral cap
  • well formed
  • compacted

 

2-row Terra Technology mounder mounted on a 640D line skidder with a 73"x44.00"x32" rubber chained up.

The two sides are operated on separate hydraulic and electric controls and function independently of each other.
All design, fabrication, machining and welding is done at the Terra Technology Ltd. facility near Stony Plain, Alberta.

Hydraulic and electrical components are standard to industry, readily available and straight-forward to troubleshoot.

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Ken's Korner

My partner and I had an opportunity to do a bit of travelling within Saskatchewan last weekend, specifically into the southwest part of our province.  We have never spent any amount of time exploring that area of Saskatchewan and so when we found ourselves in that corner, we decided to extend our weekend by a couple of days and see what sights we could find.

 

It was a wonderful and surprising weekend!

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