Iron casting tillage seed opener

The ductile iron tillage seed opener is a type of seed opener used in agricultural machinery, made from ductile iron (also known as nodular cast iron or spheroidal graphite iron). Ductile iron is chosen for its unique combination of strength, durability, and wear resistance, making it suitable for demanding tillage applications. Baoding Guokun can use sand casting process, investment casting method or lost foam casting process to produce the various high Chrome replaceable tips for your agricultural openers. The replaceable tip openers will be constructed from multiple pieces that are usually held together with either a blot or roll pin. The openers replaceable tips are the min wear resistant point while the rest of the opener is designed to be relatively wear-free. If you need tillage tools, please contact gina@guokuncasting.com to get the quotation.

Agricultural Castings Tags: tillage

Description

Baoding Guokun Machinery Co., Ltd and Baoding Guokun Export and Import Trading Co., Ltd are located in Baoding city, Hebei province, China. Our sand-casting factory occupies a total area of 30,000 square meters, which have casting foundry workshop, grinding, sandblasting and precision machining shop, laboratory and warehouse. Baoding Guokun has equipped with 4 sets medium-frequency electric furnaces, 15 sets automatic shell core machinery, automatic sand-casting molding line, 7 sets CNC machinery, 20 sets CNC Lathe, and the complete quality inspection devices for mechanical testing and chemical analysis, including tensile strength, hardness tester, metallographic inspection, spectrometer, ultrasonic testing and special testing devices. Before shipping, the quality reports for all inspection will be issued and mailed to our customers. We can offer green sand casting, resin sand casting, precoated sand casting, shell mold casting process for your OEM casting parts. Baoding Guokun can produce and export various agricultural casting components for agricultural machinery, combine harvester, farm implements, tractors, plows, harrows, seeders, fertilizer spreaders, balers, wagons or trailers, cultivators. The investment casting and sand casting process are usually the most cost-effective casting techniques to produce complex or simple agricultural casting replacement components in low, medium and high-volume quantities.

What is Tillage seed opener?

The tillage seed opener is a component of agricultural machinery, such as seed drills or planters, used to create a furrow or trench in the soil for seed placement during planting. It ensures proper seed-to-soil contact, optimal seed depth, and spacing, which are critical for seed germination and crop growth. Seed openers are essential in modern precision farming to improve efficiency and crop yields.

What is the normal material for tillage seed opener?

Seed openers are typically made from durable, wear-resistant materials to withstand harsh soil conditions and repeated use. Common materials include:

High carbon steel: Provides strength and durability.

Boron Steel: Offers high hardness and wear resistance.

Stainless Steel: Resists corrosion and is used in wet or corrosive environments.

Carbide Tips: Added to the edges of openers for enhanced wear resistance in abrasive soils.

Hardened Alloys: Used for components that experience high stress.

Cast ductile iron: Ductile iron is chosen for its unique combination of strength, durability, and wear resistance, making it suitable for demanding tillage applications.

Metal casting process

Sand Casting process, resin sand casting, green sand casting, precoated sand casting, shell mold casting process

Sand casting process is an industrial metal casting process that involves creating a mold from sand and pouring molten metal into it, generally used to cast the shaped parts of nearly any design, including large parts and those with internal passages. Baoding Guokun can produce various sand cast parts in cast iron, ductile iron, gray iron, low-carbon steel, mild steel, alloy steel for pump, valve, agriculture, railway, road, forklift, tillage, mining, automotive, medical, food, and aircraft, etc.

The process of Baoding Guokun sand casting involves several steps after producing a professional tool or mold, including:

No.	Steps	Details
1	Pattern Creation	A two-piece metal pattern is created in the shape of the desired part, typically from iron, aluminum or wooden material.For a single casting or small batches of castings, we prefer to produce to use the wooden material to manufacture the mold to save money for customers.For other sand casting parts in large quantity, we prefer to use aluminum or iron to improve the mold’s service life.
2	Mold creation	The two shell halves are joined together and securely clamped to form the complete shell mold. If any cores are required, they are inserted prior to closing the mold. The shell mold is then placed into a flask and supported by a backing material.
3	Pouring	The mold is securely clamped together while the molten metal is poured from a ladle into the gating system and fills the mold cavity.
4	Cooling	After the mold has been filled, the molten metal is allowed to cool and solidify into the shape of the final castings.
5	Raw Castings	After the molten metal has cooled, the mold can be broken and the casting removed. Trimming and cleaning processes are required to remove any excess metal from the feed system and any sand from the mold
6	Machining	Machining as per drawings