Claas Jaguar Additive Applicator

[Digester Man]

Our contractor runs a pair of Claas Jaguars and they cut all of our silage. The factory additive applicator meters the liquid additive in litres per hour. Contractor doesn’t think he can change it to meter it by the hectare, which makes it quite awkward to calculate the right additive rate.

Is he right that it can only apply it per hour? If so how do you all work out how many sachets of additive to put in the tank and how much water to dose per hour? It ends up a bit of a guessing game at our end. Each of our sachets treats 100 tons fresh weight, it’s not that handy to translate that into “tons per cylinder cutting hour” to know how much is water we should apply.

Been told the Krone can meter it by the Hectare.

 

[Digester Man]

Oops put this in the wrong section, should have been under Machinery!

 

[tinman]

how many acres can he lift in an hour?

Do you actually know how many Tonnes of grass is in a hectare the day you cut it??.
i apply additive to baled silage here, after the first bale or two i know how long it takes to make a bale in that field, i know its 1ltr per Tonne and so i work out quickly what flow rate i need to match the speed, additive isn't an exact science, as long as you put on the estimated amount or just above the recommended dose your going to be pretty ok.
its not that dear either so another packet in the greater scheme of things isn't going to put the light out really.

 

[davidroberts30]

Wont be that hard to work out with simple math when you know how many acres a hour and how long it takes to fill a known size trailer

 

[miniconnect]

Jaguar 850 here, set it at 140l / hour for a 10t/ acre wholecrop would be average. Usually works out about right. That's for an additive going on at 2l/ ton

 

[Digester Man]

how many acres can he lift in an hour?

It changes massively depending on how heavy or wet the crop is.

Every cut of grass is different, I can estimate how many tons to the hectare I think it’s going to yield but I wouldn’t have a clue how many hectares an hour the harvester does. The two harvesters are different as well, so one can go a fair bit faster than the other. Just makes it hard to tell them at the start of the day how much to put on, pity Claas haven’t got the applicator set up that it can meter it in hectares rather than hours.

 

[joe o]

Should be working by the weight,some crops could be 12t to hectare some could be 18t, easy if all trailers are similar size say they hold 9t off crop 400tons worth of additive in 400lts= 9 litres applied per trailer therefore adjust flow so it covers 44.4 loads, that I know most foragers will work on litres per hour or litres per ton if fitted with weighing systems fitted

 

[Rsockett]

On the NH foragers it all depends on whether the machine has yield monitoring. Without that there is no way for the machine to know how to meter per ton so it just meters it by the hour. Then we used to work out roughly how many tons an hour your putting through the forager and then work it out from there. Once yield is fitted and software updated it can then apply additive by the ton

 

[jg123]

Per hour is prob More accurate than per ha. If forager moves to a field with half the crop it is probably travelling at double the speed. We just roughly work out how long to fill a trailer and so many trailers should have dropped the tank 100L etc