Claas tucano 320 - 420
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kevindb880
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We had a 320 and now have a 420.
5.4m header on 320 which was a bit much but smallest at time to be a vario!
5.6m on 420 which is about rIght in barley but could go wider in wheat.
Best thing about 420 is the APS disawners which are put in by a leaver and not having to take the concave out to put disawner bars in.
Bit more horsepower in the 420.
Dont think you can buy a 420 without APS.
5.4m header on 320 which was a bit much but smallest at time to be a vario!
5.6m on 420 which is about rIght in barley but could go wider in wheat.
Best thing about 420 is the APS disawners which are put in by a leaver and not having to take the concave out to put disawner bars in.
Bit more horsepower in the 420.
Dont think you can buy a 420 without APS.
I would not want one without aps, I'm trying to confirm if it's standard in a 420 and also maybe if it's available in a 320. I can't find anything to confirm this on the web
I'm more familiar with New Holland machines, have you any idea how the 420 with aps would compare with a tc56 rs or a tx62?
kevindb880
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APS was standard in 420 and was not an option in the 320.
glasshouse
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Straw and £
glasshouse
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A single drum combine leaves a fantastic swathe
The aps sends it out in lumps
I don't know about sending it out in lumps but I've been passenger in some aps machines and saw lumps heading up the elevator that I thought might block it and they just disappeared through the drum without any issue. I put this down to the aps
glasshouse
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Yes, the aps is fantastic, but the second drum does mash the straw slightly.
Nothing like an axial flow or lexion though.
What are you comparing it to ?
We've had a tucano and 2 lesions the second is a hybrid and you can get wheat straw out of them that the head still looks intact they're certainly not hard on straw unless it's way over ripe and an absolutely scorching day
glasshouse
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A single drum medion
If you can keep the 3 drum newer ones full enough they're pretty good our tucano 450 and lexion 65p were only hard on straw with the extra threshing segments bolted in which weren't in often
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glasshouse
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Well the swathe our old 108 used to make has never been equalled for evenness and aeration.
It would dry out far quicker than any double or triple or axial flow swathe i have ever seen
It would dry out far quicker than any double or triple or axial flow swathe i have ever seen
Fragonard
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300 series had no aps.
400 series did have the aps.
I thought that was the only difference in 300 and 400 series.
I could be wrong.
does it pick them up ok? Shouldn't castrate cattle in arable crops really!