New-Style Ditcher Makes Flat-Bottomed Trenches

New-Style Ditcher Makes Flat-Bottomed Trenches MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Earth Movers 26-2-12 The Triple "S" DitcherÖ, available in the U.S. and Canada, cuts a 60-in. wide flat-bottomed drainage ditch up to 6 in. deep in one pass, says James Lundon, Lundon Distributing, Crookston, Minnesota. Lundon worked with Adolf Vaags of A-V Sales, Dugald, Manitoba, to design the ditcher. The two have contracted with McTavish Steel Works, Rosenort, Manitoba, to manufacture the ditchers. The Triple "S" name stands for scraper, spinner and spreader. A scraper blade lifts soil into paddles that break it up and direct it into a spinner-spreader. The blower spreads soil without leaving a berm on either side of the ditcher. It requires a tractor with at least 150 hp, but will work on tractors with up to 250 hp. Coulters on either side of the scraper blade cut off crop residue to keep it from dragging and accumulating piles of trash in the field. The ditcher can be leveled hydraulically from the tractor seat. It can also be hooked into a laser leveling system to dig drainage ditches with a precise grade. Lundon says the scraper has been used for digging drainageways, cleaning existing ditches, and for rebuilding terraces. It sells for $22,000. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, James J. Lundon, Lundon Distributing, 619 Lowell St., Crookston, Minn. 56716 (ph 218 281-2570); or in Canada, FARM SHOW Followup, Adolf Vaags, Box 88, Dugald, Manitoba, Canada R0E 0K0 (ph 204 853-7755).

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