Side Trimmer

The Slopehelper Side Trimmer is a fully electric attachment, delivering consistent performance, precision, and efficiency without relying on hydraulic actuation. Unlike conventional systems, all functions are powered by electromechanical and mechatronic solutions with brushless motors, completely eliminating the need for hydraulic oil and actuators.

This cutting-edge electric-driven design offers several key advantages:

• No hydraulic leaks – Reduces environmental risks and maintenance costs.
• Lower maintenance requirements – Fewer mechanical components prone to wear and tear.
• Gentle and precise operation – The actuated head smoothly adapts to tree trunks, ensuring damage-free mulching around root areas.
• Efficient movement in plantation passages – Seamless operation, even in dense tree rows.

By replacing traditional hydraulics with advanced electric actuation, the Slopehelper Side Trimmer ensures superior reliability, increased durability, and environmentally friendly operation, making it the optimal solution for modern orchard and vineyard maintenance.

The Slopehelper Side Trimmer is equipped with interchangeable strings, offering users the flexibility to choose between soft or hard strings based on specific tasks—gentle mulching for young trees or aggressive liana removal for trunk cleaning.

For quick and effortless maintenance, the trimmer features a specially designed drum that enables fast and easy string replacement. This user-friendly system minimizes downtime, ensuring continuous operation and long-term reliability in orchard and vineyard maintenance.

With adaptable string options and a rapid replacement mechanism, the Slopehelper Side Trimmer provides maximum efficiency, flexibility, and durability, making it an essential tool for precision plantation management.

The Slopehelper Side Trimmer features an automated height regulation system, which continuously adjusts the instrument’s position in real-time during the Base Platform’s movement, ensuring optimal mulching performance, regardless of terrain variations or surface slipperiness.

By dynamically adapting to ground conditions, the system:

• Maintains precise cutting height for uniform mulching.
• Compensates for uneven terrain and slopes, ensuring consistent performance.
• Prevents excessive ground contact, protecting both the instrument and tree trunks.

This intelligent height adjustment allows for smooth and effective operation, even in challenging vineyard and orchard environments, ensuring maximum efficiency and protection for your crops.

Field operations can present unpredictable challenges, with obstacles such as loose wires in the root area or the trimmer head becoming stuck on a post, posing risks to both equipment and plantation infrastructure. In traditional systems, even skilled operators may struggle to react quickly, and in robotic operations, immediate manual intervention is often impossible without proper safety mechanisms.

The Slopehelper Side Trimmer incorporates an advanced emergency protection system designed to prevent such damage. The entire instrument is suspended on a specialized frame that detects any jamming or obstruction of the trimmer head. Upon detection, the system immediately stops the machine, safeguarding both the equipment and the plantation.

This intelligent safety feature ensures reliable, damage-free operation, even in demanding and unpredictable orchard and vineyard environments, enhancing both operational safety and equipment longevity.

In real-world orchards and vineyards, plantation rows are rarely perfectly straight, which means the Slopehelper Side Trimmer must continuously adjust its position relative to the row for precise thinning.

Equipped with a special actuator system, the Slopehelper Side Trimmer automatically adjusts its lateral position, ensuring optimal alignment with the trees. This dynamic adjustment prevents flower damage from incorrect positioning and guarantees precise, uniform trimming, even with row irregularities.

This intelligent design ensures that the trimming process remains effective and gentle, enhancing the health of the trees while maintaining high operational efficiency.

Traditional side trimmers often use rigid bumpers, typically made of metal pipes or rough sliding components, which can scrape and damage the bark of trees. This is particularly harmful to sensitive trees, such as those in apple orchards, leading to wounds, increased disease susceptibility, and long-term tree stress.

The Slopehelper Side Trimmer features an innovative touch bumper, a revolutionary solution that allows the trimming head to gently follow the tree trunk’s shape without making direct, abrasive contact. This non-abrasive design ensures the tree remains undamaged, even in delicate plantations.

By eliminating the need for traditional rough-contact bumpers, this advanced feature promotes healthier trees, making the Slopehelper Side Trimmer the safest, most tree-friendly option for precise and effective orchard and vineyard maintenance.