Enorossi V rake

[holywell farmer]

I used a tonuttti raptor for a couple of years these rakes are good in nice flat fields anything else and you don t look behind because you cringe at its fragility.I now have a double rake go bit slower and fancy it will still be in one piece long after the v rake has been recycled.

It towed well down the road until a bolt sheared and it bounced off the kerb and blew a tyre,blocking the road a bit of a nightmare!!!!!

Who needs pto!

 

[seedman stains]

And a bit of ballast in the cab

 

[fiat 9090]

i dont find stability a problem we foumd it was safer on the road compared to our claas 780

 

[Thomas5060]

Who needs pto!

Everyone with a PTO powered implement

 

[Jon Boy]

Aye you're right the Krone does need full welly chopping silage on hills. However it's a v150 full variable chamber so doesn't kill the tractor like a roller baler, and it's definitely easier to drive than a v660. Baling straw on ground too steep for a square baler to pull up this year, it was in eco PTO and still doing over 16kph up hill despite its weight. I'll also tell you one day about how I know that the Krone makes heavier bales that don't sag compared to the McHale too

Do you not know the key to to telling a good story is to make it believable.

 

[Drillman]

Do you not know the key to to telling a good story is to make it believable.

Reading Duncs post again I do believe you have a very valid point

16k up a steep hill in eco with a smallish tractor means there was either no straw in the swath or baler was making little puff balls

 

[DrDunc]

Do you not know the key to to telling a good story is to make it believable.

Been taking lessons from JamesBS

If you can wait a few months I'll post a video of the Krone running in eco PTO on flat ground silage, and a couple more months in straw.

Might not get to 24kph in a 30 foot swath though, because I hope there's a bit more straw in the swath than this year

 

[DrDunc]

Reading Duncs post again I do believe you have a very valid point

16k up a steep hill in eco with a smallish tractor means there was either no straw in the swath or baler was making little puff balls

Bales were 220kg at 8% moisture. I have weigh slips if you need proof.

There was bugger all straw in the swath though. Only got 4 bales to the acre.

Though what this had to do with a v rake, I don't know.

 

[Drillman]

Bales were 220kg at 8% moisture. I have weigh slips if you need proof.

There was bugger all straw in the swath though. Only got 4 bales to the acre.

Though what this had to do with a v rake, I don't know.

Sounds like you need the rake to make a better swath to me!

4ft bales at a guess looking at bale weight? Small swath will make them a bit heavier as less material going into each revolution.

 

[Orionn4444]

You haven't seen lumpy swaths all roped up until you've seen what my Krone can swallow, and it just needs the wee Deutz 6150.4 in eco gear

To be fair, the man on the rake has improved since the first few fields he rowed up for me.... Thank goodness

I guess the v rake will take a bit of fettling to get forward speed, angle, and width right to get a good swath, but then so does a "conventional" rake..... Hence knowing my Krone can bale lumpy ropes

Think I'll need to get a demo or at least see one working. At forward speeds up to 3 times that of a twin rotor, able to rake everything from hay to wet leaf grass, turn straw to dry it, and has bugger all to go wrong, they look too good not to investigate.

Raking quality improved with the banishment of haybob... coincidence...iiiii think not

 

[Jim B]

If Acrobats were any good, we’d all still be using them.

Just get a good double rotor!

 

[fiat 9090]

If Acrobats were any good, we’d all still be using them.

Just get a good double rotor!

if single rotors were any good then farmers wouldn be trying to buy a 2 rotor the v rake is years ahead of an acrobat and i for one dont want to see bale or pick up after a single rotor

 

[PuG]

If Acrobats were any good, we’d all still be using them.

Just get a good double rotor!

erm... i still use ours, quick, easy to use, no faff, and have a Kuhn rotor sitting in the shed.

 

[fiat 9090]

erm... i still use ours, quick, easy to use, no faff, and have a Kuhn rotor sitting in the shed.

thats interesting esp about the rake sitting in the shed

 

[dod1e]

So has anyone else got one since or any more experience from this season?

Remarkably few user reviews out there and no second hand units, which could mean that everyone who had bought one likes it and has kept it, or possibly more likely that hardly anyone bought one in the first place?

I really like the idea, but this year in the second week of June we had 16 hard center welger bales/acre and it was far wetter than we would have liked, and my worry is this type of rake would have struggled to stay under all of the crop.

With a powered rake you can just go down the gears till it it catching everything, but i guess all you can do with these is put more weight on the wheels......

 

[seedman stains]

Well after about 5 years of not a lot of work the tonutti raptor that i used to use is being ear market to be changed,the couple who used it after I left the group have decided it is too flimsy and for some reason its has decided not to tow too well on the road before 40 k was ok but now its limit is 30 About the same as a double rake.
They might be good on big flat fields but meadow fields after cows which may be ok travelling at 8k dont suit this type of machine perhaps with a tractor fully loaded, suspension all round you dont need to worry about the forward speed but the rake has to stand this look at the construction they are m ade to be hammered about the field because that is the way they work best as fast as you can go!!!!

 

[fiat 9090]

So has anyone else got one since or any more experience from this season?

Remarkably few user reviews out there and no second hand units, which could mean that everyone who had bought one likes it and has kept it, or possibly more likely that hardly anyone bought one in the first place?

I really like the idea, but this year in the second week of June we had 16 hard center welger bales/acre and it was far wetter than we would have liked, and my worry is this type of rake would have struggled to stay under all of the crop.

With a powered rake you can just go down the gears till it it catching everything, but i guess all you can do with these is put more weight on the wheels......

We had no problems till the middle of June when grass got very heavy and wet and then it wasn't able for it but it was only an odd field but now it's working grand , it streets ahead of a single rotor and simpler than a rotonde and it's so simple fast and cheap to run but saying that it's hard to beat a good twin rotor providing your ground is level ,a worn twin rotor is a money pit