John Deere: New Vertical Tillage Tool Provides Speed, Versatility, and Performance to Growers

The new Frontier VT17 Series Vertical Tillage Tool from John Deere provides speed, versatility, and performance to growers. If you're looking to operate your machine at a higher speed, up to 10 mph, while minimizing erosion and reducing soil compaction, this may be your tool.

Four sizes of VT17 Series Vertical Tillage Tools are available with working widths ranging from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.6 meters). Tractor horsepower requirements range from 85 to 150 horsepower (62.5 to 110.3 kilowatts) depending on the width of the model it’s paired with.

The VT17 Series offers fore and aft leveling adjustments that can quickly be made using a simple crank system. Gang angles on the implement can be adjusted from zero to 12 degrees for less or more aggressive tillage. The machine’s operating depth can be fine-tuned from zero to three inches using a pin-and-clip adjustment.

The VT17 comes with either 20-inch (50.8 cm.) straight or 22-inch (55.9 cm.) concave blades. Each blade type is fluted for improved residue flow, sizing, and mixing, even with aggressive gang settings. The machine’s spring-adjustable rolling baskets run perpendicular to the blade direction to break up clods and improve field leveling and seedbed uniformity.

"The VT17 has the weight, durable tubular frame construction, dual tandem wheels, blade and finishing options, and other features that customers are looking for in an economical vertical tillage tool. These new field tillage tools are designed to provide years of work across a wide variety of soils and field conditions."
- Scott Geier, Marketing Manager, Partnered Products for John Deere

Tandem dual wheels, standard equipment on all VT17 models, are mounted on a tubular carriage frame that’s hydraulically raised and lowered. As an option, an adjustable middle breaker can be mounted between the wheels on the center frame to disrupt soil in the center-line of travel that’s left open where the front and rear gangs do not overlap.

"With VT17 Series Tillage Tools, there's no extra weights or additional ballast to buy, maintain, or to work around. All of the weight that's needed to do the job is built right into each model's frame and components. These tools are a great fit for producers who farm smaller-sized fields or operate under 200 horsepower (147.1 kilowatt) tractors."
- Scott Geier, Marketing Manager, Partnered Products for John Deere

If you are in the market for a new high-speed tillage tool to prepare your fields, you should give the VT17 Series a look and you can always find John Deere products and vertical tillage tools in our marketplace.