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Scalp and mix

The HIGHLANDER tine stubble cultivator is designed to deliver maximum efficiency from the very first pass, regardless of soil type or residue conditions. With a working depth range from 3 to 20 cm, it ensures precise scalping and optimal mixing.

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The new HIGHLANDER range of tine stubble cultivators embodies KUHN’s vision of versatile, high-performance stubble cultivation tailored to the needs of modern farming operations. Designed primarily for grain farms, farming cooperatives, and agricultural contractors, this stubble cultivator meets a wide range of agronomic objectives: shallow scalping, residue destruction and incorporation, weed control, cover crop management, and incorporation of soil amendments. With an adjustable working depth from 3 to 20 cm, the HIGHLANDER adapts to all soil management strategies.
Available in working widths of 6 and 7.6 m, the HIGHLANDER tine stubble cultivator is compatible with tractors from 180 to 400 hp, ensuring optimal traction and high work outputs. Its robust design is based on four rows of tines combined with maintenance-free mechanical non-stop protection, capable of withstanding up to 350 kg of force at the point. A wide choice of points, wings, front-end discs, and levelling tools allows the machine to adapted to all soil types, from light to heavy soils, even in the presence of vegetation.
Designed to combine precision and operator comfort, the HIGHLANDER can be equipped with up to 8 gauge wheels and can feature a drawbar as well as floating extensions to ensure perfect ground following. This ensures consistent working depth, even at shallow settings. At the rear, several finishing options are available, including the DOUBLE U roller or a triple harrow with hydraulic or mechanical angle adjustment, offering great flexibility depending on conditions and target results.
With the HIGHLANDER, KUHN offers a solution designed to optimise tillage quality, and capable of operating year-round at every stage of the cropping cycle to increase your profitability.

Le déchaumeur à dents HIGHLANDER au travail dans un champs

A single tool for all your tillage tasks

HIGHLANDER est le déchaumeur idéal pour mélanger et incorporer les résidus de cuture.

Mixing efficiently to enrich and structure the soil

Residue mixing is a key function of the HIGHLANDER, designed to optimise soil fertility and structure while ensuring efficient organic matter management. With its four-row tine design, combined with a wide choice of points and wings, the HIGHLANDER performs intensive residue mulching, ensuring their fragmentation and uniform incorporation across the full working width. This mixing accelerates the decomposition of organic matter, which is more rapidly converted into nutrients available for subsequent crops. By promoting this biological activity, the HIGHLANDER helps enrich the soil while sustainably improving its fertility.
The mixing action also loosens the soil, improving air and water circulation. These exchanges are essential for the development of beneficial microorganisms, the true drivers of soil life. A loosened soil also facilitates root penetration, providing crops with a more favourable environment for growth and establishment. The work performed by the HIGHLANDER creates a balanced soil structure, limiting compaction and promoting deep, even rooting.
The HIGHLANDER is also the ideal tool for incorporating organic or mineral amendments. Owing to its intensive and uniform mixing capability, it ensures homogeneous nutrient distribution throughout the working horizon, improving input efficiency while reducing the risk of erosion and runoff. This uniformity helps create a more stable and fertile environment while securing subsequent field operations.
With its versatility, power, and high-quality mixing, the HIGHLANDER offers a complete solution to optimise residue management, improve soil health, and efficiently prepare future seeding.

Uniform scalping for a healthy and productive soil

Scalping is one of the HIGHLANDER’s key functions and an essential step in weed control and soil preparation between crops. Carried out at shallow depth (3 to 8 cm), it consists of cutting vegetation and root systems just below the soil surface to prevent regrowth. Equipped with specially designed wings, the HIGHLANDER ensures precise and even horizontal cutting, severing weed roots across the full working width. This reduces competition for nutrients and water, allowing subsequent crops to benefit from a more uniform and available soil resource.
By lightly working the soil, the wings also create a fine tilth, favourable for weed regrowth or cover crop establishment. This weakened structure encourages the emergence of remaining weeds, making them easier to eliminate in a second pass. Scalping therefore helps reduce weed pressure sustainably while preserving soil structure thanks to shallow and non-intrusive working depth.
the HIGHLANDER stands out for its ability to deliver uniform scalping, even at high speed, due to tine stability and precise depth control. The resulting soil is clean, level, and ready for subsequent operations such as mulching, residue incorporation, or seedbed preparation. Versatile and easy to use, the HIGHLANDER optimises each pass while reducing input requirements and improving long-term soil health. With its agronomic efficiency and high-quality finish, scalping with the HIGHLANDER becomes a fast, strategic, and effortless operation for the operator.

Le déchaumeur à dents HIGHLANDER scalpe le sol et est équipé d'une triple herse pour éviter le repiquage.

Equipment for every soil and every need

The HIGHLANDER’s versatility is based on a wide range of equipment and options allowing precise adaptation of the machine to all soil types, residue levels, and agronomic objectives. Designed to ensure consistent working quality in all conditions, it benefits from exceptional ground following with up to eight gauge wheels, combined with a floating drawbar and floating extensions. This combination provides optimal stability across the full width and length of the machine, ensuring a consistent and uniform working depth, even at shallow settings.
At the front, adjustable-pressure pre-cutting discs efficiently slice crop stems before the tine passage, ensuring smooth material flow and optimal preparation.
Thanks to this wide range of equipment, the HIGHLANDER adapts perfectly to user needs, ensuring maximum efficiency in all situations.
Levelling can also be adjusted precisely and intuitively. A centralised depth adjustment system, accessible from the side, simplifies field adjustments. Depending on soil type, the operator can choose levelling blades, ideal for light to medium soils and fitted with independent wearing parts for durability, or levelling discs, perfectly suited for medium to heavy soils, even with dense vegetation.
At the rear, the HIGHLANDER offers several finishing options. It can be equipped with a 550 mm DOUBLE U tamping roller with adjustable pressure to adapt to field conditions, or a triple harrow with hydraulic or mechanical angle adjustment, ideal when a more open finish or residue retention is targeted. For autumn work or wetter soils, the machine can also be used without a roller, offering maximum flexibility.

Les disques de pré-découpe facilent le passage des dents et permettent d'accélerer la décomposition des végétaux dans le sol,

The essential trio: tines, points, and underframe clearances

La dent de HIGHLANDER permet de travailler dans toutes les conditions avec une fiabilité accrue.

The tine central to the HIGHLANDER's efficiency

The HIGHLANDER tine is a key component of the machine’s performance. It is engineered for strength, efficiency, and versatility. It operates across four carefully spaced rows to ensure smooth soil and residue flow, even in demanding conditions. Each tine is equipped with a maintenance-free mechanical non-stop protection system, capable of withstanding up to 350 kg of force at the point. This absorption capacity ensures effective soil penetration while protecting the machine structure from obstacles.
To enhance safety and preserve the integrity of the implement, each tine is also fitted with a shear bolt that activates if the 350 kg threshold is exceeded. This system ensures both tine protection and optimal working continuity in variable field conditions. The tine also offers two work height positions, allowing adjustment of aggressiveness and depth depending on the intended outcome. This height adjustment of the tine position makes it possible to work deeper, particularly in compacted areas or in wheel tracks left by the tractor.

Points and wings: the key to adaptability

Points and wings play a decisive role in soil work quality and machine versatility. Designed to meet a wide range of soil conditions and agronomic objectives, they allow fine adjustment of power, penetration, and mixing according to the user’s needs.
The HIGHLANDER can be fitted with five types of points, each offering specific performance characteristics. DURAKARB carbide points are available in three widths (50 mm, 65/35 mm, and 80/50 mm), ensuring exceptional durability and even wear, even in abrasive soils. They provide consistent penetration and are perfectly suited to intensive stubble cultivation and mixing operations. Two forged points, 60 mm and 80 mm, complete the range. Their more tapered profile allows better penetration in hard or dry soils, reducing pull power requirement and therefore fuel consumption. They also enable deeper or more precise working depending on the objectives.
For scalping operations, the tines can be fitted with wings, which increase working width and ensure horizontal cutting across the entire surface. These wings sever weed root systems and produce a fine soil structure favourable for germination or cover crop establishment.

Les dents du HIGHLANDER, équipées de pointes et d'ailettes, assurent un scalpage d'une précision chirurgicale.

Optimised ground clearance for perfect flow

The HIGHLANDER ground clearance is a key factor in the quality of soil and residue flow, ensuring smooth material movement in all conditions. With 70 cm of ground clearance, the machine provides ample space to prevent residue build-up, even in the presence of tall vegetation or large volumes of organic matter. Combined with a tine spacing of 20.7 cm, this optimised design ensures a steady flow without clogging, while maintaining high-quality work.
The four-row tine layout further enhances this excellent clearance capacity. The carefully designed spacing between rows ensures even distribution of material, improving mixing, scalping quality, and working depth. This design also contributes to maintaining high working speeds, ensuring high field output.
Due to its generous clearances and open frame design, the HIGHLANDER stands out for its ability to deliver consistent, uniform work in all conditions, even the most demanding. This structural feature makes clearance a real asset, enhancing the machine’s versatility and overall performance.

Le grand dégagement sous bâti de HIGHLANDER garantit un flux de terre régulier et sans bourrage.

Reduced operating costs for higher profitability

HIGHLANDER est le déchaumeur polyvalent par ses objectifs de travail mais aussi par sa capacité à intervenir toute l'année.

Usable all year round

It stands out for its very wide operating range, making it a multi-purpose tool capable of working throughout the year and adapting to seasonal requirements. With an adjustable working depth from 3 to 20 cm, it can perform shallow scalping in summer after harvest, intensive residue mixing in autumn, or seedbed preparation in spring. Its ability to work in dry, wet, residue-rich, or heavier soils allows it to operate in a wide variety of agronomic conditions.
This versatility is also due to its wide range of equipment: gauge wheels for optimal ground following, a choice of rear rollers or harrows depending on the desired soil structure, a wide range of points and wings to adjust power, and front-end pre-cutting discs to manage dense vegetation. Thanks to these modular configurations, the HIGHLANDER adapts equally well to fast operations between crops and longer tasks such as destruction, mixing, or incorporation.
Whether scalping in summer, mulching in autumn, shallow loosening in winter, or seedbed preparation in spring, the HIGHLANDER ensures consistent and uniform working quality. Its robust and open design makes it a reliable tool capable of assisting the operator all year round, delivering performance, simplicity, and profitability at every pass.

Speed and performance across the full working width

The HIGHLANDER delivers exceptional field capacity, enabling users to cover large areas quickly while maintaining outstanding working quality. Its 6 and 7.6 metre working widths, combined with a four-row tine layout, promote smooth material flow and allow working speeds between 8 and 12 km/h without risk of clogging. The 70 cm ground clearance and 20.7 cm tine spacing further optimise this flow, ensuring consistent progress even in the presence of large volumes of residue.
Stability provided by gauge wheels, the floating drawbar, and floating extensions ensures constant working depth even at high speed, contributing to overall performance and operator comfort. Thanks to mechanical non-stop protection systems capable of withstanding up to 350 kg of force, the HIGHLANDER maintains a steady work rate without interruption from obstacles.
Together, these features make it possible to work quickly, efficiently, and continuously while reducing the number of passes required. The HIGHLANDER therefore optimises working time, reduces costs, and significantly increases operational profitability.

La conception de HIGHLANDER a été pensée pour travailler vite sans compromis sur la qualité du travail du sol.

Versatile performance

The HIGHLANDER is designed to deliver maximum efficiency while minimising power requirements, making it a highly cost-effective implement in use. Thanks to its free-flowing architecture — four rows of tines, generous ground clearance, and optimal soil and residue flow — the machine penetrates the soil smoothly and moves forward with reduced pull-power requirements. This design minimises the effort required from the tractor and allows full use of the machine’s potential with power ratings ranging from 180 to 400 hp, depending on the selected working width.
The choice of appropriate points, well-spaced tines, and carefully engineered geometry further reduces the towing resistance, lowering fuel consumption without compromising working quality. The operator can also adjust working depth from 3 to 20 cm, allowing precise adaptation of the effort to the actual field requirements: shallow for lower energy consumption, deeper when more intensive work is needed.
By combining smooth traction, simple adjustments, and low pull-power design, HIGHLANDER ensures reduced operating costs, controlled fuel consumption, and optimal profitability throughout the year.

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