Vicon twin rotor rake

dowcow

Member
Location
Lancashire
One of my favourite tractor jobs is raking. Love clearing ground with one.
Same here. Low revs and really rewarding to make a neat job of it.

I had a Vicon single rotar and was a decent enough machine. Now Vicons, kverneland and Kubota rakes all come out of the same factories painted different colours and I have seen few complaints if any about them. I think maybe Taarup also part of the group?
 

daveydiesel1

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Co antrim
Same here. Low revs and really rewarding to make a neat job of it.

I had a Vicon single rotar and was a decent enough machine. Now Vicons, kverneland and Kubota rakes all come out of the same factories painted different colours and I have seen few complaints if any about them. I think maybe Taarup also part of the group?
Yes all owned by kubota including taarup
 

KB6930

Member
Location
Borders
Same here. Low revs and really rewarding to make a neat job of it.

I had a Vicon single rotar and was a decent enough machine. Now Vicons, kverneland and Kubota rakes all come out of the same factories painted different colours and I have seen few complaints if any about them. I think maybe Taarup also part of the group?
Our kv 4672c is crap it's too high geared and no adjustment on the cam track .

Our old claas was a far better bit of kit
 

icanshootwell

Member
Location
Ross-on-wye
Im led to believe the small trailed twin rota rakes are around about 14k, the one on the three point linkage which hfd is thinking of buying was on offer at the three counties show today for 11k.
I was there today and saw that one, would of been keen to have a deal, but had the Mrs with me, so any spontaneous spending was quickly dampened down.
 

JWL

Member
Location
Hereford
After driving a trailed twin rotor Class take last Friday for the first time it certainly looked like it made corners a damned site easier for the baler as it just followed in an arc not that sudden flick you get with a trailed rake that flicks the swath right into the corner.
Yes tight gateways can be a pain but get your head round that steering axle and reverse in and you're sorted
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
After driving a trailed twin rotor Class take last Friday for the first time it certainly looked like it made corners a damned site easier for the baler as it just followed in an arc not that sudden flick you get with a trailed rake that flicks the swath right into the corner.
Yes tight gateways can be a pain but get your head round that steering axle and reverse in and you're sorted
With the single rota rake i reverse back and do corners twice for the backswathe to get a nice curve on them, second row in i square them off
 

Suffolksucklers

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Suffolk
After driving a trailed twin rotor Class take last Friday for the first time it certainly looked like it made corners a damned site easier for the baler as it just followed in an arc not that sudden flick you get with a trailed rake that flicks the swath right into the corner.
Yes tight gateways can be a pain but get your head round that steering axle and reverse in and you're sorted
We bought a mounted twin rotor pottinger for this year and it has a steering headstock so follows you round like a trailed one. Brilliant bit of kit
 

Suffolksucklers

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Suffolk
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robs1

Member
We had a mounted twin rotor,sometimes it raked every bit others it was crap, one side would be clean the other left loads, then the welds started to fail, bought a trailed kuhn which does a great job
 

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