Front Press - HE-VA

Front Press

The HE-VA Front Press range gives you the choice between two main models the popular V-Profile Front Press and the Front Pakker.

Sizes range from 1.5m to 6m hydraulic folding models with a range of different ring types to suit different land types. Add a shattaboard to any model and you increase consolidation, levelling and cultivation.

Steering

All HE-VA Front Presse's give you...

A long press headstock which becomes an extension of the front of the tractor when attached and hence the press is actually trailed rather than pushed ensuring that it follows the nose of the tractor steering smoothly even at speed.

Heavy Duty Headstock

Front Press Headstocks are designed to take the forces produced when utilising a shattaboard.

The steering rollers self centre the press to prevent it swaying around when lifted to turn on the headland or in transport.

Shattaboard

Add the full width Shattaboard and turn the Front Roller into a Shattapress to increase the cultivation action, improve levelling and save time and money preparing the ideal seedbed.

The Shattaboard paddles can work independently or be interlocked with a connecting rod system harnessing their combined strengths to improve levelling while the boards themselves cultivate and consolidate.

The aggressiveness of the Shattaboard is hydraulically adjustable from the tractor seat, with a simple setting scale for the tractor driver to work from.

The V-Profile press showing the Shattaboard lifted from work. This board is hydraulically adjustable from the tractor seat.

Fitting a 3m or 4m Shattaboard to a 1.5m Front Pakker allows the whole width to be levelled and cultivated whilst the 1.5m presses in-between the tractor wheels and the tractor wheels press the rest of the working width. This option is only available for the Front Pakker as the sharp pakker rings prevent soil in front of the Shattaboard from steering the press.

V-Profile Front Press

The HE-VA Front Roller uses V-Profile rings to give even full width pressing suitable for light to medium/heavy soil types.

The V-Profile Front Roller incorporates the pressed steel V-Profile ring developed for the Disc Roller,

This ring which ensures optimum consolidation while having a sharp rib to maximise clod crushing. The ring spacing is 125 mm with a scraper between each ring to give full width consolidation on light and heavy land alike but leave some loose friable tilth for the drill behind to work with.





The rings can turn individually but are linked by a series of lugs that ensure they all drive together and continue to turn in wet and sticky conditions. It is available in a rigid format with working widths of three or four metres or in hydraulic folding four, five or six metre versions.


The V-Profile press showing the Shattaboard lifted from work. This board is hydraulically adjustable from the tractor seat.




Individual spring steel scrapers extend virtually to the hub of the ring ensuring the press keeps turning even in the wet.

V-Profile
	Pressed steel castellated 620mm V-Profile ring, suitable for all but the heaviest soil

Front Pakker

Cuts its way through the clods and consolidates on heavy or light land

Sharp 30 degree Front Pakker rings give an excellent cutting action whilst having the weight to consolidate in front of a powered or passive drill combination. The 150mm to 165mm spacing between rings ensures there is some friable soil left for the drill to work. Whichever size of Pakker ring you chose to suit your land they all employ a unique shoulder design which prevents the rings from sinking in too much on light land and still allows the aggressive 30 degree edge to do its work on heavier ground.



The HE-VA Front Pakker comes in a choice of 3 ring sizes. The option of the heavier 800mm and 900 mm profiled rings, which have relatively low rolling resistance, alongside the more common 700mm diameter means you can chose the correct ring for the weight required rather than have to add weight to smaller rings increasing the horsepower required to work them. Furthermore, the overall weight of the 800 and 900mm rings means better consolidation and more aggressive cultivation for heavy land farms. All Front Pakkers incorporate a cleaning chain between the rings to ensure the ring keeps working in wet sticky conditions.

The HE-VA Pakker ring profile offers superb cutting action with its 30 degree edge whilst at the same time controlling the penetration on lighter land with the shoulder at the base of the cutting edge.

This improves consolidation and keeps the ring turning on lighter land without compromising the aggressive action needed for heavier land.

Multi-ring combinations give you full width action with increased consolidation between the tractor wheels so that when the tractor tyres have pressed the land as well it is left evenly consolidated right across the width, presenting the drill with a more even seedbed and resulting in better crop establishment.

V-Profile Front Press

Front Pakker

Front Press Options

With hundreds of HE-VA Front Presses working in the field, continuous dialogue with farmer and contractor users has enabled HE-VA to develop the full potential of the presses adding various cultivator options to meet changing demand.

The Shattapress concept was derived from the very successful Shattaboard which turns a standard set of Rolls into an all round cultivator. Adding the Shattaboard and turning your Front Roller or Front Pakker into a Shattapress dramatically improves levelling and consolidation in front of the drill and therefore improves consistency of germination and establishment of the crop.



The Shattaboard paddles break down clods and level rough seedbeds before the Front Press improving the consistency of consolidation once the press has been across the land. For heavier ground where the standard plate is not enough, the Shattaboard can be fitted with slicing plates to cut and fissure clods more effectively.

The Front Harrow with two rows of adjustable S-Tines is designed to work in conjunction with any of the Front Press's on land that has been levelled but needs more cultivation before the drill, the depth the tines work at is adjusted on two winding spindles allowing fine alterations to be made.

Maximise the cultivation action of rigid Front Roller Front Press by adding a double frame - Shattaboards and front tines and you have the ability to work all but the heaviest soil types. The Shattaboard blades can work individually but the levelling effect is increased with the addition of the optional locking bars to convert the individual springs into a complete "board" for full width action. The optional Shattaboard edge plates can be fitted to help keep certain soil types from ridging either side of the press.

All Front Press that incorporate a Shattaboard have hydraulically adjustable paddle angle so that the aggressiveness can be adjusted on the move or the paddles lifted out of work completely if the conditions dictate. The numbered gauge that can be viewed from the tractor seat sets the angle of work for the conditions in hand.

Front Press Technical Options

Front Linkage

To get the best out of any front equipment you need the best front linkage. The HE-VA range is substantial - from 1500 to 5500kg lifting capacities with linkages and PTO's to fit most models of tractor. The close coupled linkage design features vertical fold Link arms and a Soft start PTO system.

OPICO Front Linkage system has been designed and manufactured by HE-VA for over 19 years, HE-VA has a large European market and also exports linkages to Canada, New Zealand and Japan and supply approx 1800 units a year. We at OPICO have been supplying the front linkage system in the U.K for over 10 years.

Each new Front Linkage is tailor made to the tractor and designed on CAD with computer systems and then laser cut out. All new Front Linkages are tried and tested in Europe before they are supplied in the UK.

Whatever front implement you intend to use, OPICO have the ideal Front Linkage for the job with lift capacities from 1.5 to 5.5 tons. What's more, OPICO have a Front Linkage to suit every tractor, with over 800 different models available.

All OPICO linkages incorporate the Vertical Fold System (VFS) allowing the link arms to fold fully back when not in use improving manoeuvrability and safety.