At first glance, nothing. But we can also say that they are tools needed on a farm. You can farm without them, but sooner or later, you will likely need them.
You don’t need to think too deeply about it; the analogy aims to show that there are tools that can be replaced under ideal conditions. For example, a farmer could drive a limousine instead of a pickup, but they don’t because a few times a year, they need to get out of the mud or bring parts to the machine in the field.
Nowadays, we often encounter technological suggestions to skip the seedbed preparation, which might work under ideal conditions, but in a critical situation, the miracle won’t happen.
The BUSA™ Rotary seedbed maker is just as powerful as a serious off-road pickup. Our old customers keep telling us how much of a blessing it has been to have their Rotary Tiller in recent years. Some for spring, some for autumn seedbeds. Some save the last drops of water during drought, while others enable sowing on swampy soil. Just as some people have other means of transportation besides their pickup, we have partners who also own a seed compactor. They say it’s good and nice, but when soil cultivation is challenging, only BUSA™ helps.
After all this confusion, let’s see where the differential lock and the knobby tires are on the BUSA™ Rotor, and why it is the best seedbed maker.
In spring, we can have two problems: too much rain or none at all. If the soil is wet, only the shallow, dry surface layer should be cultivated. If we dig into the wet soil, we create wet clods. The adjustable rotor of the rotary tiller precisely defines the depth. Its special finishing rollers do not clog in wet spots. The BUSA™ Rubber Roller compresses while rolling, shedding the adhered soil, while the internal cleaning spring tines save you from half a day’s cleaning.
In dry conditions on heavy soils, clod crushing is the issue. The uniqueness of the BUSA™ Rotor is that it doesn’t crush clods with machine weight like a heavy roller but with the energy in the cutting speed of the blades. Thus, it can prepare a seedbed on hard, dry surfaces while not compacting the deeper layers.
In autumn, the problem is time. The soil disturbed by primary tillage doesn’t have time to settle if it had to be worked in dry conditions, and we face hard and large clods. The BUSA™ Rotor solves both. The vertical cutting of the blades prevents clods from rolling away. The adjustable rotors work the soil deeper at a large angle and start compaction from the bottom of their working depth, creating a more evenly settled soil than any surface-level finisher.
The analogy might lose momentum with simple tasks. One could argue that going on vacation with an off-road vehicle is not the most economical, but the BUSA™ Rotor has no problem with simple cases either. Moreover, its low maintenance requirement, reliability, and wear resistance of the special steel-forged blades make it worth using the BUSA™ Rotor. Just look at the used machines; ten- to twenty-year-old machines happily work thousands of hectares and are often sold only because of an upgrade to a larger machine.
In summary, we can only recommend an off-road vehicle, but we can also provide a good seedbed maker!
