Voyager, semi-mounted cart or single-wheel plough

Single-wheel or carriage?

Your choice of semi-mounted single-wheel or carriage plough will depend on the contours of your fields and the manoeuvrability and working width that you want.

Single-wheel (Voyager S)

Manoeuvrability and productivity without making compromises

If you have small plots or fields with challenging contours, the choice of a single-wheel semi-mounted plough is by far the best option as it allows you to combine flexibility with a good working width.

Carriage (Voyager C)

Topography and large farms

Do you have to work on sloped fields? Do you need to plough very large areas in a short time? Without question, you need a semi-mounted carriage plough.

In-furrow or on-land?

The choice between in-furrow or on-land is more than a just a discussion; it is about real situations and conditions.

In-furrow

Suitable for small to medium tractors, in-furrow ploughs make ploughing easier.

The tractor wheels sit in the furrow for good grip and traction, especially in wet conditions.

The furrow guides the tractor which is especially useful if you do not have GPS guidance.

On-land

On-land ploughs are suitable for high power tractors, including tracked, twin wheels or wheels over 710 mm in width. By working on-land, tyre wear is reduced, especially on flinty soils.

The Grégoire Besson semi-mounted on-land ploughs allow you to work either in-furrow or on-land.

Multi-position or variable hydraulic width?

Selecting the best type of width adjustment for your plough...

Multi-positions

If you always work with the same conditions (soil, plot layout, climate, crops, etc.), you probably won’t need to change your working width often.

When it is necessary, you simply loosen the working width adjustment bolts and position the plough bodies on the desired working width indicators. This only takes a few minutes.

Variable hydraulic width

For ploughs used by several people (for example, in a cooperative) or when you have to plough in varying conditions (subcontracting, farms with different soils or crops, different terrains, etc.), we recommend the Variable hydraulic width system.

From the cab, you can adjust your working width and adapt to your needs in a few seconds. This is particularly useful in small plots and in headlands.

Low drag, low fuel consumption

The Voyager S60 and C60 are equipped with offset legs. Learn more about their benefits in this video.

In a few words, 100 litres of fuel saved for 150 hectares worked.

Smart design

The details that make all the difference.

Smooth turning

Turning your plough can be stressful. Whether you have the rack and pinion system or the double cylinder system, the Voyager can be turned smoothly even at the tipping point.

You can reverse the turning process at any time.

Rear lifting or articulation

On the carriage models, the rear lifting jack allows you to deal with headlands smoothly and perform delicate manœuvres.

The roller joint enables you to follow ground contours.

110° articulated headstock

Voyager’s 110° headstock articulation gives you optimum manoeuvrability. Comfortable and efficient on plots with complex geometry, it enables you to perform short and fast headland manœuvres.

Z beam

The Voyager Z-shaped beam on single wheelers means that the wheel passage is covered by the last body. In addition, this beam allows the chassis to pass close to the wheel when turning.

The centre of gravity is lowered and manoeuvring is safer.

Load transfer

On rack and pinion models, you can fit a load transfer cylinder that enables you to shift weight to the rear of the tractor to give better traction.

You reduce your fuel consumption while optimizing grip.

Offset

On Voyager, the hydraulic offset management enables you to adapt to tractor tracks from 1.3 to 4.7 m width. This hydraulic adjustment offers you a precise, simple and efficient setting.

Adding or removing a body

If you change to a higher or lower power tractor, you can add or remove a ploughing body. Remember to specify this when configuring your plough. You don’t have to change ploughs when you change tractors.

Simple settings

You can set the working depth in 3 places: the tractor lift at the front, a stop screw on the carriage (depending on the model) and another on the depth wheel. To adjust tilt, simply adjust the stop screws located either side of the headstock. That’s it, you’re ready.

Hydraulic controls

With the hydraulic selector you can have up to 6 hydraulic controls in the cab even if you only have 3 hydraulic valves on your tractor.

Positioning the plough

When you’re manoeuvring in headlands, turning the plough one way then the other helps you to position it. This means you can position and guide it exactly where you want.

Precise ploughing from 15 to 40 cm deep over different working widths.

Depending on the soil, your farming programme, the working depth and the volume of material to be buried, you can do crumbled or deeper, high furrow ploughing.

Crumbled ploughing

The step before seedbed preparation

If you are about to plant a crop, crumbled ploughing enables you to mix the material just before passing with a seedbed preparer.

This step makes it easier to pass with the seedbed preparer while weeding and enriching the lower soil layer.

Crumbled ploughing can be carried out at fairly high speed and results in a flatter soil.

Over winter ploughing

Let water and oxygen enter the soil

If you need to do winter ploughing, especially in clayey soils, it can be valuable to do deeper, high furrow ploughing. This allows you to channel the water, which during winter will turn into frost and break up the ground.

Crumbled ploughing also allows oxygen to penetrate the intermediate layers of the soil. In spring, this will make ploughing and sowing easier.

Crumbled ploughing, which is carried out with a helicoidal mouldboard, has a better capacity to bury organic matter. It maintains the structure on the surface for a few months without work and helps the germination of weeds present in the soil.

The benefits and agronomical advantages of ploughing

Although it has often been criticized, ploughing is making a comeback as it brings a multitude of benefits to the soil in one pass.

Soil structure

Ploughing improves soil structure. By turning and loosening the soil, ploughing allows air and water to circulate.

Then freezing and thawing actions break up the soil, creating a structure that is suitable for cultivation.

Ploughing is an effective step in seedbed preparation.

Burial

Ploughing allows you to introduce organic fertilizers into the soil (manure, slurry, residues, plant cover, grassland...)

Ploughing gives you the opportunity to provide important nutrients (such as phosphorus, potassium, etc.) for the roots of your future crop.

By diluting these elements in large volumes of soil, ploughing helps to sustain future crops.

Weed control

Ploughing buries weed seeds deep enough so that they do not germinate and then compete with your crop.

This cleans the soil surface mechanically and lowers input costs for farmers. No chemical action is necessary.

Water flow

Ploughing allows water to infiltrate and circulate freely and so limit retention.

By circulating within the intermediate and deep layers, water does not create a crust which prevents erosion of the nutrient-rich surface.

Extreme weather

When droughts or heavy rains prevent straightforward cultivation, ploughing provides a viable solution.

By bringing a uniform and balanced level of moisture into the different layers, planting becomes possible again despite challenging conditions.

Mineralization

Ploughing makes nitrogen less volatile by trapping it in the soil which accelerates mineralization.

Nitrogen accelerates the decomposition of organic matter. Existing crops benefit from its increased availability.

The Andpak roller
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The Trailed LIfter
A solution for tractors without rear lift