Grouper for JD 530 mo/co

[Tompkins]

As above, grouper to fit JD 530 mo/co

 

[Herefordhop123]

Will one fit off a 1365 do you know?

 

[wr.]

I've got one on a 1365 which we don't use. New belt last season.

 

[vinnie123]

Never seen a good one yet! Do not rush into this one. Jd groupers are poor to say the least. Watched a Kverneland mower ten years older than m6 Old one and it was ten times better, honestly they take years off your life

 

[wr.]

Perhaps you'd care to elaborate on that @vinnie123 and back up your claim because I've never heard anyone criticise them before . Ours did a good job for us putting 2 in 1. We haven't used it since chopper upgrade and the need to put 3 in 1. Now we use a rake.

 

[milkloss]

Wouldn’t mind finding one to fit a 1350

 

[vinnie123]

Perhaps you'd care to elaborate on that @vinnie123 and back up your claim because I've never heard anyone criticise them before . Ours did a good job for us putting 2 in 1. We haven't used it since chopper upgrade and the need to put 3 in 1. Now we use a rake.

Had two 530s , with the single armed swather, neither were very good and the second one was probably worse, they just about coped with Ley grass that was cut multiple times but in heavy crops of Old pasture (no matter wha5 we adjusted/changed ) the grouper was nothing but a barsteward! If it did keep swathing it produced a scruffy swath and more often than not it would lump up on the belt and caus3 grief , when grouping 3into 1 for the forager it slowed up harvesting considerably. What made it worse was the Kv mower running alongside would put 3 into 1 effortlessly and in immaculate fashion and at any speed(incidentally the 1365 grouper looks more kv style) . Don’t get me wrong the mowers are great but the groupers are not imo. We adjusted belt speed,grouper height , mowing speed, conditioner aggression, tried with vanes in and out! You name it we tried it .

 

[wr.]

Had two 530s , with the single armed swather, neither were very good and the second one was probably worse, they just about coped with Ley grass that was cut multiple times but in heavy crops of Old pasture (no matter wha5 we adjusted/changed ) the grouper was nothing but a barsteward! If it did keep swathing it produced a scruffy swath and more often than not it would lump up on the belt and caus3 grief , when grouping 3into 1 for the forager it slowed up harvesting considerably. What made it worse was the Kv mower running alongside would put 3 into 1 effortlessly and in immaculate fashion and at any speed(incidentally the 1365 grouper looks more kv style) . Don’t get me wrong the mowers are great but the groupers are not imo. We adjusted belt speed,grouper height , mowing speed, conditioner aggression, tried with vanes in and out! You name it we tried it .

Thanks @vinnie123. It's always helpful when claims are backed up with the facts and explained. Sounds like the 1365 grouper is a world apart from the 530.

 

[Tompkins]

So I take it that a 1365 grouper is different then? I was expecting that to be the case.