We also drive some lemken machines at our farm and are pretty happy with it. Here in Germany they are pretty popular, although the competition is big. Horsch is another germany company I like and väderstadt from our northern neighbors also make great machines.
I agree, I have the same opinion, it's just one hell of a disc, it will level every field, do an enormous job of cutting up and up rotting weeds and those tines between the 2 rows of discs just make it able to mix up a ton of residues. Just a nice equipement all around and nicely built. We've got some trouble with the roller bearings breaking on us just after a few year and the shear pin of the front middle 2 discs breaking on our stony soil but Lemken identify a problem with the bearings series we had on our Rubin, and installed a new hydraulic security to get ride of that shear pin. Hope Lemken establish it self in the US as it did in France and europe as a reliable manufacturer of well-thought-out and well-designed equipment.
Yes it is definitely an amazing disk. I’m glad you were able to solve your issues. We have had this one for 4 years now and the only maintenance we have had to do is change the disks.
I was very skeptical of these when I first saw them because of how fast they were going. Seemed like they would just get tire to pieces, but then I used one and I was sold. It did an excellent job and didn’t yank the tractor around when you hit a big rock.
Yes these are amazing disks. I have gone through the field at close to 10 miles an hour and hit a big chunk of concrete and it just springs up and then comes back down. You don’t even know you hit anything.
Alot of that overseas equipment coming to the American market is way better at performing and cheaper then our own equipment in the states.Thats just crazy
@@RockyMountainFarmerThx for the vid! I worked at the Lemken plant. Very interesting place! They do a lot of engineering and many engineers are comeing from Farms or are sons of Farmers and do a lot of testing by themselves in the fields. They pay their employees very well, so there is no much brain drain or fluctuation. If you ever have the time to travel to europe may be you can visit Lemken and get a tour, so you could see a lot of forgeing steel and such stuff. But wait two years, when there is the Agritechnica 2025 in Hannover and get both😊.
@@RockyMountainFarmer Where is it??? I stay in Georgia we have the Sunbelt Ag Expo down here but I have heard about that i just dont know whats the location
@@pricepatrick616 I don't know if there are more then one, but the international Agritechnica is in Germany, every second year, in the City of Hannover. This year, just a couple of weeks ago, there was one. So if you take a journey, you could combine it with a tour at a Plant, such as John Deere in Mannheim or Zweibrücken or Fendt or Claas or many more... Krone, Grimme, Ropa, Lemken, Amazone, Geringhoff, New Holland in Belgium 😅
We run a couple lemkens. Keep an eye on your basket bearings in the back....we have rocks and replace them every year... if one basket stops turning you can pull the frame to shit
I saw it in person this year on freshly rained on soil, so the top 20cm were the perfect humidity for it to work in, i really wonder what kind of job it does on a dryer soil, but nevertheless i was impressed by this disc's potential of levelling which is almost on par with trailed combination cultivators such as a Vaderstad Topdown or a Horsch Tiger, i think it buries residue better than both of them. What bothered me in your video and also in person is that it leaves a mark on the edge because it does not close so good after the last pair of discs, even though it had the double steel roller, and not your roller, but, despite that, i find it a very potent machinery for preparing your wheat seedbed for example in one pass, maybe even soybean, or rapeseed if you've subsoiled the year previous to that. I personally work with a Vaderstad Topdown 500, i find it better than a Horsch Tiger because it leaves a smoother soil behind it (side note if you ever want to try them), both in leveling and breaking up chunks of dirt due to closer tine spacing and smaller diameter discs, but it does have a problem with burying the residue (this time the tiger does a better job having 680mm discs, which can be good or bad, depepending on what you want to obtain from your soil, i follow with a Carrier 925, for optimal preparation in case the dry season puts its mark on breaking the soil, and i still do not get that weed cutting you do, this is why i am impressed by it.
It does leave a little line on the edges but I think that’s because there is a disk on the second row on the outside edge that is for throwing the edge soil back in and I don’t think I have that adjusted correctly. It does prep the soil in one pass. We do one pass before planting grain. It is definitely an amazing disk. The times between the disks break up the soil so well.
The feather bar behind the second row of disc blades need to be extended beyond the rest of the disc total width trailing profile,so to level and match it all out accross the tools path,a joining the other pass already done .I see you still have quite a un-level endent row accross the surface aside of its a joining path,this would level it out better accross joining path aside from it, as you travel matching it up and leveling it out smooth, matching the other sides pathway let the engineers know
@ cool man is there any dryland wheat close to you? I read about a certain area in Idaho that can grow real high yielding dryland wheat 🤷🏻♂️love the videos and the Lemken too my dad just got the Rubin 12 pulling it with a 9530 track
Get one to Nebrasks or one of the neighboring states and see how it does in the gumbo type soil they have there. I bet it would do nothing but plug up. great in lighter soil.
Your amazement might vanish with the discs wearing down. The disc without this problem is the Väderstad Carrier XL - they might have wider machines to challenge your horse as well...
We have had to change the disks twice in 4 years but even with the worn ones it still did a good job. I have never heard of the disk your talking about. Odds are it’s not sold here. I’ll look it up tho.
I just watched the video and it’s almost identical to the horsch. The disks are too small to work up a potato ground. That would be the problem. The biggest disks that they offer are 610 mm which is where Lemken recommends replacing their disks because they don’t do the job as well.
@@RockyMountainFarmer Of course, they are! But that kind of heavily routed soil requires a moderate angle of attack, at least! It's old school knowledge, whatever the implement ...
I just watched a video of it and it’s almost identical to the horsch disk we tested. It would never work in potato ground because it would just plug up. The disks are too small.
@@philrizzo the Lemken leaves the best looking finish that I’ve ever seen on the field. It can take something super chunky and leave. It smooth as butter. You would know that if you watch the entire video.
We also drive some lemken machines at our farm and are pretty happy with it. Here in Germany they are pretty popular, although the competition is big. Horsch is another germany company I like and väderstadt from our northern neighbors also make great machines.
Lemken does make good machines. We have also been demoing some horsh machines.
Lemken comes from near my hometown. Really good stuff from Germany
Great piece of machinery
I agree, I have the same opinion, it's just one hell of a disc, it will level every field, do an enormous job of cutting up and up rotting weeds and those tines between the 2 rows of discs just make it able to mix up a ton of residues. Just a nice equipement all around and nicely built. We've got some trouble with the roller bearings breaking on us just after a few year and the shear pin of the front middle 2 discs breaking on our stony soil but Lemken identify a problem with the bearings series we had on our Rubin, and installed a new hydraulic security to get ride of that shear pin.
Hope Lemken establish it self in the US as it did in France and europe as a reliable manufacturer of well-thought-out and well-designed equipment.
Yes it is definitely an amazing disk. I’m glad you were able to solve your issues. We have had this one for 4 years now and the only maintenance we have had to do is change the disks.
That Lemken disk is too narrow and needs to be at least twice that width for more production.@@RockyMountainFarmer
@@John-nc4bl they do make a wider one now. I believe it’s 30 feet
I know next to nothing about farming but that looks impressive!
It really is one of the best disks on the market.
Great Video. 👍🏻
Thanks for watching
I was very skeptical of these when I first saw them because of how fast they were going. Seemed like they would just get tire to pieces, but then I used one and I was sold. It did an excellent job and didn’t yank the tractor around when you hit a big rock.
Yes these are amazing disks. I have gone through the field at close to 10 miles an hour and hit a big chunk of concrete and it just springs up and then comes back down. You don’t even know you hit anything.
@@RockyMountainFarmer that’s awesome! Really enjoy your videos. Do you have any videos of covering rock caps?
I don’t. I’m not even sure what that is.
@@RockyMountainFarmer you guys don’t have annoy lava rock where your farming? Lucky dogs
Alot of that overseas equipment coming to the American market is way better at performing and cheaper then our own equipment in the states.Thats just crazy
Yeah I haven’t see a disk out perform the lemken
@@RockyMountainFarmerThx for the vid! I worked at the Lemken plant. Very interesting place! They do a lot of engineering and many engineers are comeing from Farms or are sons of Farmers and do a lot of testing by themselves in the fields. They pay their employees very well, so there is no much brain drain or fluctuation. If you ever have the time to travel to europe may be you can visit Lemken and get a tour, so you could see a lot of forgeing steel and such stuff. But wait two years, when there is the Agritechnica 2025 in Hannover and get both😊.
We are going to try to come to agritechnica next year.
@@RockyMountainFarmer Where is it??? I stay in Georgia we have the Sunbelt Ag Expo down here but I have heard about that i just dont know whats the location
@@pricepatrick616 I don't know if there are more then one, but the international Agritechnica is in Germany, every second year, in the City of Hannover. This year, just a couple of weeks ago, there was one. So if you take a journey, you could combine it with a tour at a Plant, such as John Deere in Mannheim or Zweibrücken or Fendt or Claas or many more... Krone, Grimme, Ropa, Lemken, Amazone, Geringhoff, New Holland in Belgium 😅
We love our Rubin 10 and Heliodor nice video
Glad you enjoyed the video
cool video, all the big farming tools seem cool to work with
They are nice to run for sure.
Our farmers co-op also now has a Rubbin, awesome machine. Only here still to wet to work on the field.
They are awesome
Good programme, carry on 🙌
Thanks
I use Rubin 10’s and they made it easy to sell 9” my spacing conventional disks.
Real easy
They are great
We run a couple lemkens.
Keep an eye on your basket bearings in the back....we have rocks and replace them every year... if one basket stops turning you can pull the frame to shit
Thanks for the advice
I saw it in person this year on freshly rained on soil, so the top 20cm were the perfect humidity for it to work in, i really wonder what kind of job it does on a dryer soil, but nevertheless i was impressed by this disc's potential of levelling which is almost on par with trailed combination cultivators such as a Vaderstad Topdown or a Horsch Tiger, i think it buries residue better than both of them.
What bothered me in your video and also in person is that it leaves a mark on the edge because it does not close so good after the last pair of discs, even though it had the double steel roller, and not your roller, but, despite that, i find it a very potent machinery for preparing your wheat seedbed for example in one pass, maybe even soybean, or rapeseed if you've subsoiled the year previous to that.
I personally work with a Vaderstad Topdown 500, i find it better than a Horsch Tiger because it leaves a smoother soil behind it (side note if you ever want to try them), both in leveling and breaking up chunks of dirt due to closer tine spacing and smaller diameter discs, but it does have a problem with burying the residue (this time the tiger does a better job having 680mm discs, which can be good or bad, depepending on what you want to obtain from your soil, i follow with a Carrier 925, for optimal preparation in case the dry season puts its mark on breaking the soil, and i still do not get that weed cutting you do, this is why i am impressed by it.
It does leave a little line on the edges but I think that’s because there is a disk on the second row on the outside edge that is for throwing the edge soil back in and I don’t think I have that adjusted correctly. It does prep the soil in one pass. We do one pass before planting grain. It is definitely an amazing disk. The times between the disks break up the soil so well.
Nice ,they know what they are building with alot of testing,,but i bet the cost is up there as well!
I honestly don’t know what the price differences I think they are a little bit more but they are 10 times the machine
Bring it to
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The crumbler sets the height! Wow with weight on that the dirt balls dont have a chance
Yes, it breaks up the dirt clods very well
I see a potential dust bowl if your not seeding till spring on our country it would be in a fence line or road ditch
We’ve never had a problem because we get snow
@@RockyMountainFarmer we get snow also but it's between the times when there is no snow we have winds that reach 70 at times
@@joescheller6680 we don’t get wind like that to often.
The feather bar behind the second row of disc blades need to be extended beyond the rest of the disc total width trailing profile,so to level and match it all out accross the tools path,a joining the other pass already done .I see you still have quite a un-level endent row accross the surface aside of its a joining path,this would level it out better accross joining path aside from it, as you travel matching it up and leveling it out smooth, matching the other sides pathway let the engineers know
You know we probably just have our set a little bit off and it just needs some adjustment because there’s a lot of adjustment on these things
Do you use drip irrigation in those corners or do you dryland farm them?
We use hand lines to water them
@ cool man is there any dryland wheat close to you? I read about a certain area in Idaho that can grow real high yielding dryland wheat 🤷🏻♂️love the videos and the Lemken too my dad just got the Rubin 12 pulling it with a 9530 track
Get one to Nebrasks or one of the neighboring states and see how it does in the gumbo type soil they have there. I bet it would do nothing but plug up. great in lighter soil.
Yeah, I’m not sure. I bet there’s somebody there who has one
When you need to make dirt look like butter...
That’s right this is the best tool for that job
This sand can be leveled with a stick, and weeds can be removed with a regular rake.
I’m not sure what your getting at with your comment. This is a disk for farms not gardens.
@@RockyMountainFarmerI think he’s just saying you’ve got nice dirt to work with. I agree
Are they cheaper than JD's ?
Your amazement might vanish with the discs wearing down. The disc without this problem is the Väderstad Carrier XL - they might have wider machines to challenge your horse as well...
We have had to change the disks twice in 4 years but even with the worn ones it still did a good job. I have never heard of the disk your talking about. Odds are it’s not sold here. I’ll look it up tho.
I just watched the video and it’s almost identical to the horsch. The disks are too small to work up a potato ground. That would be the problem. The biggest disks that they offer are 610 mm which is where Lemken recommends replacing their disks because they don’t do the job as well.
Surprised you do not need subsoiler legs to break compaction.
We do have a chisel plow that we use on hard packed fields
So wheel bearibg replacment on these is a thing of the past c9mpariss to traditional discing or chisel plowing
We haven’t had to replace a single bearing in the 4 years of owning it.
light weight one think make us great plaine are better in what ever you want use it
?
John deere 9570rt??
It's a 9510RT
Hello! At a small angle it would do a better job...
The disks are at an angle
At an angle to the ruts? I love the lemkens but are they ever expensive 😂 That outfit is what a 100 k?
No, the disks are under 100
My thought exactly. We normally do a 16 to 20 degree angle across ruts to level. Easy with a T. Won't plug as much either.
@@RockyMountainFarmer Of course, they are! But that kind of heavily routed soil requires a moderate angle of attack, at least! It's old school knowledge, whatever the implement ...
Wishek, the mold board plow disk....
I haven’t heard of that one
@@RockyMountainFarmer ua-cam.com/video/-SzS1smiPwE/v-deo.html
10 mils in h???
We can go 14 on grain ground
Get a degelman pro till and then decide
Never heard of it
I just watched a video of it and it’s almost identical to the horsch disk we tested. It would never work in potato ground because it would just plug up. The disks are too small.
Degelman, Deere, Norwood and Brandt are finish tool compared to a Rubin 12.
It is a PLOW
@@philrizzo the Lemken leaves the best looking finish that I’ve ever seen on the field. It can take something super chunky and leave. It smooth as butter. You would know that if you watch the entire video.
If you would read all the comments you would that see I own 2 Lemkens. Have for about 5-6 yrs
Amazone catros is better in all tests
I’ve never even heard of that
When you always do so long over your work you do not a lot of work in one day
I’m not sure what the question is here