Hydraulic side knife

[Fraserb]

Looks like we're going to be cutting some OSR next week to help out a neighbour, we dont have a sideknife for our header but the neighbour has a hydraulic one from a lexion we can have, had a look at it today and it's going to be easy enough to make it fit on but was wondering if just tee-ing into the reel drive will do to drive the knife.

 

[Wombat]

That's how the one on our MF works

 

[Fraserb]

That's how the one on our Massey Ferguson works

Sounds good, looking at it I'll just need some tee pieces and a couple of QR fittings

 

[AF Salers]

Just a thought, not had any experience of hydraulic sideknives, but in osr you always have a very slow reel speed so will this flow give a fast enough knife speed?

 

[Fraserb]

Just a thought, not had any experience of hydraulic sideknives, but in osr you always have a very slow reel speed so will this flow give a fast enough knife speed?

Ive had a look on the claas website and the sideknife needs 10 lt/min so not to much, the motor on the knife is a lot smaller than the one on the reel so hoping it will be ok. I'll get some fittings on monday and have a try I think. If it came to it I could probably use a couple of valves to control the flow to the different motors but was hoping for an easy solution.

 

[Wombat]

Ours is just some T's with quick couplers, there is also a flow restrictor to the reel, so you can adjust the flow down on the reel and keep the side knife running. The hydraulic knife actually runs quite slow but doesn't seem to need to be running like the table knife

 

[Fraserb]

Ours is just some T's with quick couplers, there is also a flow restrictor to the reel, so you can adjust the flow down on the reel and keep the side knife running. The hydraulic knife actually runs quite slow but doesn't seem to need to be running like the table knife

Cheers for that, sounds like it should work. We've got a flow valve and the quick release couplers at work just need a couple of tee's to try it. Dont want to spend to much as its not our knife.