Description:

Steketee ic-weeder

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.

Would you like to have the machine modified?

Steketee Lemken can do that at extra cost. Could you indicate what you want per feature?
Row distance, track distance, type of crop you want to weed, how far apart are the plants in the row (plants must be at least 20 cm apart