What trailed foraged harvester to buy

[Coaster]

Light crop
10ft mower
Longish round
7-8 ac an hour

 

[bigg6480]

Light crop
10ft mower
Longish round
7-8 ac an hour

That's how we do in it if we change mid row speed the job nicely.

 

[Coaster]

I closed up more of the spout and it defiantly gave it more blow!

 

[deere2140]

At 3 m or 10 foot width , for every mph is one acre an hour , more or less .

 

[YELROM]

I closed up more of the spout and it defiantly gave it more blow!

Any pictures of what you did or a bit more info?

 

[nick channer]

I'm looking at a JF1355 for this season!
Anyone no where there's one for sale??

 

[Coaster]

I'll take a few pictures tomorrow.
On a normal spout the banana piece of the spout the bottom of the pouts is open. I welded a sheet of steel on the bottom of that piece to close it up. So it forces the air to the end of the spout

 

[wdah/him]

I'll take a few pictures tomorrow.
On a normal spout the banana piece of the spout the bottom of the pouts is open. I welded a sheet of steel on the bottom of that piece to close it up. So it forces the air to the end of the spout

we often thought of doing that but thought jf had left it open for a reason, far better blow with that than any i have seen and a nice clean change over, as good as any other trailed harvester, we tried it with the jf but not even in a heavy swath could we get a good consistant flow for that length

 

[acorn]

Going off topic here but.................

Our outfit picking up 20 ft second cut.

AC

 

[Martin Holden]

we often thought of doing that but thought jf had left it open for a reason, far better blow with that than any i have seen and a nice clean change over, as good as any other trailed harvester, we tried it with the jf but not even in a heavy swath could we get a good consistant flow for that length

The secret of the blow is a complicated thing. I've been chasing it since 1980!! The current design of rotor is the best we've ever got the upward cutting system blowing. Pulling knives out as others suggest does help, but can cause premature breakage. Believe it or not (and I didn't until we ran an air pressure test back in 1983) the rotor sucks air at the back of the chute! Some air comes from the open area at the back of the swivel head but on the new design we suck more air from the rotor bearing area. O

 

[Coaster]

It's day and night with the bottom closed up. The only time i will block it is if the drum rpm drops to much

 

[jf850]

I hope this works.
10 fits of 2 nd cut. 27 yr old 120 hp 6 cylinder Zetor driving it. Cheap and cheerful. Usually mow with our own 8ft Kuhn. 3 acre he in 1 St. maybe 4 in 2 nd. God bless the.man that can get through some of the acres mentioned. Around here , we call that topping.

 

[wdah/him]

topping is becoming more fashionalbe in the quest for quality but for moost suckler men it is still 2-3 week in june but as fert gets dearer and leys older and the crop gets lighter

 

[rc mx110]

never, how, but, this room going to get crowded. how do u take corners?

3rd in 3rd on mx.
4th in 3rd on the straights
Stop, lift, down the cogs, reverse and away if the corner is too tight

 

[fieldfarmer]

They certainly can take grass, great thing for filling a trailer - loads of power but as far as I remember two out of the three that blew up ate nothing else but grass.

Jolly bad luck, but $hit happens I guess..

Have run a tenx for years great forager, have had 3 major blow ups in that time worst being a k2 dung spreader slat that another contractor left for me, knocked out the shear bar and 4 knives and bits of the hood went out over the top of the trailer that was side loading. Have picked up small bit of concrete in the past with a bang and at the end of the field found a small crack in the blade at the point that the blade met the right angle of the shear bar, carried on but a few acres later a wet lump was enough to take that blade out expensive wrong call on my part should have stopped and put an old blade in. Ten x blades do crack after inpact and need checking .

 

[JCfarmer]

Run a jf 1050 here behind 230hp. Will do 7-8 acre an hour picking up 10ft bouts. Did a average park of silage this year raked into 30ft bouts, 24 acre in 2.5 hours and that's trailing the cairts on behind the chopper. Got the rake man sweating

10ft bouts, 7-8 acres an hour. Spout still on????

 

[alan6430]

10ft bouts, 7-8 acres an hour. Spout still on????

24acres in 2.5hours and that's dropping trailers??? I shouldn't think they had many loads....

 

[mtx.jag]

24acres in 2.5hours and that's dropping trailers??? I shouldn't think they had many loads....

I'm guessing one

 

[alan6430]

I'm guessing one

When I had my jag51. I used to think we were flying if I could load 6 8ton trailers up in an hour. Some where between 2 and 3 acres per hour

 

[jhorr30]

side loading lifting a wilted 10ft swath using a caseih cvx 195 and jf 1050 it is pretty normal to be chopping 70-80 tons an hour of grass. Acres an hour mean feck all it is the tonnage ensiled in the clamp you are looking for.