Claas disco 3050 tc plus

[SPR]

I have the above mower. When mowing a thick crop of grass it makes a perfect job, but if its a light crop it leaves strips between the discs. Very frustrating, seem to have tried everything to rectify, slowed down speed, changed blades etc. Any ideas......

 

[Suckndiesel]

Have you tried reducing pto revs and keeping forward speed up? There something in the manual about running it at 850 or roundabouts instead of 1000 in certain conditions

 

[v8willy]

In a light crop the draught the conditioner makes blows the light grass about & it doesn't cut as well?

 

[SPR]

In a light crop the draught the conditioner makes blows the light grass about & it doesn't cut as well?

Yes, you could be right, best to disconnect conditioner?

 

[Suckndiesel]

Yes, you could be right, best to disconnect conditioner?

When pretopping with our 3050c mounted, on the odd time the conditioner shear bolt goes, it mows a lot worse.

 

[v8willy]

Yes, you could be right, best to disconnect conditioner?

I don’t know that mower, but anytime I tried knocking the conditioner off ( just removing the belts) it trailed it into lumps.

 

[davidroberts30]

In a light crop the draught the conditioner makes blows the light grass about & it doesn't cut as well?

Tighten the hood down?

 

[KB6930]

Go faster it needs something to cut against it usually helps

 

[Jim B]

Where the discs converge, where they rotate towards each other, is the cast piece gouged or rough? This can cause striping occasionally, dress it smooth with a grinder.

 

[benferg]

The other thing that can be happening is that the front skirt is pushing the crop over rather than the crop pushing the skirt back.
In effect laying the crop over. Try lifting the skirt a bit.

As said previously the conditioner can create a bit of a breeze but the other thing is if the conditioner tine tips are a bit warn the crop gets thrown back onto the bed rather than being taken over the top of the rotor.
So check that too.

First step is the front skirt though.