Question for Turbo Till Owners or Similar

I have worked for my nephew pulling his Salford, left a nice seedbed on previously worked ground, ended up being a little dry after that cause it didn't rain, also did some unworked cornstalks, did those twice and seemed to be pretty good, went about 9mph with a 35 foot, I think it really depends on the soil condition you start with.

ACscott wrote: We have a case 330 turbo and we found it worked best at 8-9 mph

At work we sell turbo tills and you are probably going to need to run 8 mph plus. You should plan on needing 10 horse per foot with a turbo till.The gang style turbo blades will give you a much better consistent depth of cut than the individual blade system on a salford. Great plains came out this spring/summer with a tool now called a turbo-max. Its similar to a turbo till other than the turbo blade gangs have cylinders on them that allow you to change the angle of cut makiing them cut aggresively and throw a little dirt or just cut the top 2 inches of your seedbed.If you are looking for a used turbo till i think the market will be saturated,once more people demo a turbo max.

I bought a Krause accelerator last fall, 25 ft. i pull with 250 hp. 8400 john deere. It is all she will do to pull it in the fall at 8 mph about 3 to 4 inchs deep in corn stalks. But i love the machine, used in fresh corn stalks one in the fall, and one time in the same stalks in the spring , then drilled soys in spring.  Heavy piece of equipment, and pricey also, but heavy, heavy duty. We also used it in fall on soys stubble, then drilled wheat last fall, really liked that also, could hold depth well and made for a really nice seedbed for wheat.

I'm yet to see where the benefit comes from an expensive reinvented wheel.  If a disk is one of the top tools for soil compaction the vertical tillage tool must be a close second.  It appears that straight "turbo" blades on a disk frame are a quick way for implement makers to make serious profit from old engineering.  I would like to see one work over many years to see what the real advantage is, I can see it being good for a short term fix for rough fields and such but so would a disk and optimizer.

Buy a disc put coulters or the half coned razer blades on it, drive about 8 mph. Put the 50,000.00 in your pocket that you didnt spend on one of those new tools. And you will be ahead of the game. I did it and it works well. If you want to work the ground,pull a disc,or field cultivator. We use ours alot.