Bought a Claas 75 last week, waiting on haulier bringing it over. Hopefully will be a good upgrade
Drag chopper pictures
- Thread starter mtx.jag
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Slowly getting the 75 into shape. Pickup needed quite abit of work but should be good to go now.
Oliveau
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- Indre et Loire, France
Loading the right side! I never ever could see the point of having the spout on the opposite side of the pickup. Many years ago I swapped the disharge on our Muir Hill/ 717 combination. Foreman went bonkers - until he saw it in action, and then he could see the sense of it.
All built up, sharpened, shear bar and belly pan set. Just need some grass to try her out.
video required!
Il probably need to upload one onto YouTube then post the link?
grainboy
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- Bedfordshire
Would this be of interest to anyone,
Full working order, used last year
Full working order, used last year
We put the shear bar through ours many years ago, chopper cut the shearbar in half splitting at least 2 knives in the process and bending at least 3 blade carriers. We got parts of a breaker that night and were going the next day with Loctite on the sheabar bolts after that.
Another spectacular incident we had with it was coming down a hill trailing a trailer, it was hitched to the tractor with one the standard JD locking pins so not to catch the grass, however as the weight in the trailer moved the pin came out and the chopper drawbar went down between the wheel and the cab, the PTO was bent to 90 degrees and probably the only thing that stopped it being a worse accident. It bent the main PTO on the machine and the brackets that hold the first bearing, above the drawbar jack. stripped it down bent the plates back into shape with a hammer and the main machine PTO with the press and away we went again. that was the last time we used the JD pin on the chopper and I think last time we dragged trailers too.
Moved on from the FHAR 900 to a Tarrup 10x which I think we did a good 10 seasons with before a few spectacular blow ups sickened us of it, we fixed it up and it went away to a new home in Ireland. We have a JF1350 now first season with it last year first and second cuts and never missed a beat. Its a bit overkill for our operation but it was a machine that was known to us, parts are still easy to get and its built to handle big power so in theory should stand up to what we use it for, will need to get some pics this year.
They run a SAME 90,130 silver and a Titan 190
Chopper extracted from the shed ready for some pre-silage prep
Richy12
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- Fermanagh, N Ireland
My oww my 
What do you run that with?
What do you run that with?
Hahaha not sure you are going to be very impressed with my answer, last year we used our JD 6430, this year we have a JD6155r so she will run it. Its not a hard thing to run if its set up properly the 6430 was more than fit for it with a decent 16ft crop of grass and as fast as the man on the pit could keep up. Ideally we would have had an 1100 but this came up forsale and was known to us.My oww my
What do you run that with?
Richy12
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- Fermanagh, N Ireland
I know what you mean about well set up harvester, it makes a huge difference to how the harvester reacts to a lump and diesel consumption.
I thought you would need north of 200hp to run a 1350. Why the want for a 1100?
I thought you would need north of 200hp to run a 1350. Why the want for a 1100?
We were looking for an 1100 because we weren't sure if the 6430 would handle the 1350 but in the end it managed fine so was the right decision as the 1350 is built for over 200hp input so should be fairly robust.
As I said the limiting factor is the pit so we don't have to push it hard but its a monster
