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About Land Rollers

Virtually all aspects of crop production—planting, spraying, and harvesting—can benefit from the use of a land roller. As the name implies, a land roller has one or more drums that are towed across the field to even out high spots, push rocks into the soil, and break up large clumps of dirt or crop residue without packing the soil. The result is a more level field, whether tilled or no-tilled, that allows for more efficient planting and spraying, while improving harvest yields as cutter bars can run lower to the ground. Land rollers can be used before or after planting to improve seed-to-soil contact, seed germination rates, and plant heartiness.

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Summers SuperRoller Land Roller

Types Of Rollers

Smooth rollers will push rocks into the soil and break up crop residue, leaving a relatively flat surface. Coil packers or notched rollers can break up root balls and also provide basic tillage but will leave a rougher soil surface. Ridged rollers may also be called cultipackers or Cambridge rollers.

Rite Way ’s trail-type rollers have sections that unfold as the operator backs up the tractor, whereas hydraulic folding models let the driver fold and unfold the sections right from the cab. Some rollers are hollow, and meant to be filled with water to achieve their proper weight. Others rely on the weight of their steel or concrete roller cores.

Many rollers have multiple sections that allow each to follow the contours of the land while providing additional working width. American inventor Franklin Grimes of Highland Station, Pennsylvania, patented such a land roller system of “hinged or pivoted sections, each connected to but independent of the other” in 1888.

Modern Features

Manufacturers such as Rite Way are building land rollers with larger drums such as 42 inches (1,067 millimeters) in diameter, yielding better results using less horsepower per foot. The company makes smooth rollers with one, three, five, or seven sections in widths ranging from 12 to 89 feet (3.7 to 27.1 meters). Rite Way also makes the Crush-Rite crimper roller for organic and no-till farmers in 12- to 52-ft (3.7- to 52-m) working widths.

Summers Manufacturing , like many other land roller manufacturers, offers multiple width, drum diameter, and unfolding options for its machines. Summers’ SuperRollers range from hydraulic models 15 to 50 ft (4.6 to 15.2 m) in width and trail-type units with 34- to 91-ft (10.4- to 27.7-m) widths. Summers’ Coil Packer comes in one-, three-, or five-section models with working widths of 14 to 62 ft (4.3 to 18.9 m).

Find The Right Land Rollers

Popular manufacturers of new and used land rollers available on Tractorhouse.com include AgroLead , Brillion , Degelman , Mandako , Rite Way , Summers Mfg , and others.