Pre-pruner

The Slopehelper Pre-Pruner features an advanced pillar bypass system, designed to outperform conventional vineyard pre-pruners. Unlike traditional models, where cutting disks open prematurely, leaving uncut branches, the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner ensures seamless cutting with zero blind spots, providing consistent pruning results across every vineyard row.

Each rotating cutting disk is equipped with special guiding fingers, smoothly directing the pruning blades around vineyard pillars. In addition, the cutting disks are mounted on an independent spring suspension, allowing them to move over vineyard posts without applying any pulling force. This innovative design eliminates stress on plantation infrastructure and prevents vineyard post damage, making it the ideal solution for vineyard automation.

The system operates with electronically synchronized disk rotation, perfectly timed with the Slopehelper base platform, ensuring that cutting disks engage only with the guiding fingers and never touch the pillar. This guarantees precise pruning while eliminating unnecessary mechanical strain, which is a common issue with traditional systems.

The Slopehelper Pre-Pruner is also optimized for use on sloped vineyards, where pillars remain vertically installed while the pruning system works at an inclined angle. Unlike conventional pre-pruners, which struggle with cutting alignment on uneven terrain, the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner ensures full efficiency, leaving no branches uncut, regardless of the terrain’s inclination.

The Slopehelper Pre-Pruner features innovative branch-guiding teeth that play a vital role in ensuring secure branch grip and enhancing precision pruning. These teeth, combined with rotating cutting disks and a pillar-contact prevention system, create a seamless pruning experience.

Unlike conventional systems, where branches can slip away or move unpredictably, the Slopehelper’s branch-guiding teeth firmly secure each branch in place. This prevents unwanted movement, ensuring clean, precise cuts without missed branches, minimizing the need for manual corrections and reducing pruning time.

In addition, these special guiding teeth significantly improve the pillar bypass function, ensuring that even branches growing close to vineyard pillars are securely held and cut. When combined with the independent spring-suspension system and electronically synchronized disk rotation, the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner guarantees a flawless, pillar-friendly pruning process with no blind spots.

With its innovative design, the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner is the most advanced solution for vineyard mechanized pre-pruning, offering superior performance and efficiency for modern vineyards.

The Slopehelper Pre-Pruner features an adjustable cutting position, offering unparalleled customization for vineyard pruning. This fully adjustable system allows users to set the cutting height and cutting angle according to the specific needs of their vineyard, ensuring optimal pruning precision for various vine structures and growth patterns.

With a wide range of adjustments, the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner accommodates diverse vineyard layouts, making it the perfect solution for vineyards with low-trained vines, high trellises, or unique plantation configurations. This flexibility ensures that every vineyard receives the ideal pruning treatment, maximizing efficiency and enhancing the pruning process.

Whether you’re working with different pruning techniques or specific vineyard designs, the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner ensures precision pruning for all vineyard types, improving overall vineyard management and boosting productivity.

The Slopehelper Pre-Pruner is equipped with a hinged system that ensures consistent maintenance of the pre-set cutting height, even on slippery or uneven terrain. This adaptive mechanism allows the system to dynamically adjust to slope inclinations, ensuring precise cutting positioning across challenging vineyard landscapes.

With its ability to continuously adapt to varying terrain conditions, the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner guarantees uniform and effective pruning on all types of vineyard terrain. This feature reduces the need for manual corrections and ensures optimal pruning performance regardless of ground conditions, enhancing vineyard management efficiency and productivity.

Whether navigating sloped or uneven terrain, the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner delivers precision pruning every time, making it the ideal solution for vineyards of all terrains.

The Slopehelper Pre-Pruner is equipped with an advanced emergency stop system, designed to protect the cutting deck from damage caused by deck jamming. This safety feature includes a mechanical fuse that safeguards the frame with cutting disks, ensuring that if an obstruction — such as loose vineyard wiring or debris — becomes jammed, the fuse immediately disengages the frame to prevent excessive force.

Additionally, a sensor system detects abnormal movement, automatically stopping the Base Platform to avoid further damage to the instrument. This intelligent safety mechanism is designed to ensure continuous protection and minimize the risk of unexpected breakdowns during field operations, extending the lifespan of the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner.

By preventing damage and reducing maintenance needs, the emergency stop system enhances the reliability and performance of the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner, making it the ideal choice for vineyard professionals seeking durable, efficient, and safe pruning equipment.

When operating on slippery surfaces or traversing steep slopes, maintaining precise alignment of the cutting frame with tree trunks and vineyard pillars is critical. The Slopehelper Pre-Pruner is equipped with an advanced vertical positioning system that continuously tracks the instrument’s inclination, ensuring the cutting disks remain perfectly aligned with vineyard rows, even in challenging terrain.

Additionally, to guarantee that the cutting disks remain centered in the passage, the Pre-Pruner features an independent positioning system. This system automatically adjusts the frame’s position, ensuring that the cutting edges stay exactly in the row center, regardless of the autonomous movement trajectory of the Base Platform.

This dual stabilization technology allows for precise, uniform pruning, eliminating errors caused by terrain shifts or machine drift, and ensuring consistent pruning results across all vineyard conditions.

The Slopehelper Pre-Pruner operates as a side-mounted instrument, extending alongside the Base Platform during pruning operations. To ensure smooth row transitions, the instrument features an automatic folding mechanism, which retracts the cutting frame before moving to the next vineyard row.

This folding system prevents jamming or interference with vineyard structures, such as posts, trellises, and wires, ensuring safe and efficient maneuverability during row changes. By eliminating obstacles and reducing downtime, this system enhances workflow efficiency, making vineyard operations seamless and uninterrupted.

At the start and end of each vineyard row, support wires are often anchored at an angle to the last pillar instead of running parallel to the row. To prevent accidental cutting of these inclined wires, the Slopehelper Pre-Pruner features a specialized wire bypass system.

This intelligent system automatically detects row transitions and temporarily opens the cutting disks, allowing wires to pass through safely and without interference. Once cleared, the disks return to cutting position, ensuring seamless operation.

By protecting vineyard infrastructure and preventing unnecessary damage, this advanced wire bypass system enhances efficiency, reliability, and precision in the pre-pruning process.