Description:

Steketee IC weeder automatic intra-row hoeing machine for vegetables

This is what your IC-Weeder for lettuce could look like. It covers 6 rows with a row distance of 28 cm. Underneath the cover are 3 cameras mounted for single plant recognition.A compressor provides the pneumatic pressure to move sickle-shaped knives actively intra-row between the plants in one row. The inter-and intra-row tools are mounted on a parallelogram element to follow the contour easily. The support wheels guarantee the correct working depth of the knives, and via the side shift-frame, the machine is steered precisely between the rows.

• Suitable for: all green lettuce varieties
• 6 rows at 32 cm row spacing
  • can be adjusted on frame
• Minimum distance between crops 20cm
• Track spacing 225 cm 
• 130 ha total hoeed past years
• Single plant recognition due to camera images
• Active hoeing knives move between the plants in one row
• Easy-to-use and intuitive operation
• Driving speed up to 4 km/h 
• Weeding up to 2 cm close to the crop
• New Steketee hoes were fitted in spring 2022, after which the machine has hardly been used.