The new sickle hoe as an alternative to the common hoeing devices

Brief description: Dieter Leibing - farmer and mechanical engineer - converted his farm to organic agriculture five years ago. The common hoeing devices did not meet his needs: they were too complicated for him, had too much abrasion and were too expensive for him. He developed a hoeing frame with one joint per coulter. The hoeing shares can be adjusted in working depth and inclination. The contact pressure is exerted via telescopic gas springs or as a hydraulic variant. Instead of a parallelogram with guiding rollers, a steel skid grinds over the field and thus maintains the shallow working depth of the blades. The hoe is available for front mounting. More www.dieter-leibing.de
The video was produced on the occasion of the Ökofeldtage 2019 as part of the EU project Nefertiti.