jf1350

[bigg6480]

You should. It’s a good machine and more manageable than the 13/1460

Will have to try and get a demo maybe to be fair the 1060 goes very well for us. It dose seam 6 years since you come and set us off with it.

 

[Wellytrack]

It loves it

If it truly is a mental one cut wonder in July x3 I can’t see it loving it.

Those kind of cuts slow Krone Big X’s to a crawl, the swath is 6 feet wide and 18 inches deep.

 

[Martin Holden]

Will have to try and get a demo maybe to be fair the 1060 goes very well for us. It dose seam 6 years since you come and set us off with it.

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[YELROM]

You’ll hear and read of the headline big acre days using a JF chopper, and there’s no doubt they can, on occasion do big acres in a day. The difference is to even a small self propelled, they will not do big acres every day without something breaking. Be it a chain, a roll pin, a clutch, blades smashing out. Just about every day, there will be something. We made the leap to a self propelled after running JF for 25 years. The last one we had was brand new and we ran it one season. Granted, when a self propelled goes wrong- they really go wrong, but you don’t get that continuous daily maintainance requirement that is so time consuming. I’ve found the biggest time saver with the SPFH is the ability to sharpen up and set the shearbar between trailers at the press of a button. It’s literally a half hour job with the trailed. Also auto greasing.

I agree they are cheap to fix, but I wouldn’t call them cheap to run when you have five men stood looking at the thing every time something minor has gone wrong.

What self propelled did you go for?
We do 400-500 ac a year through a JF1060 which like you say when sharp and running well always amazes me what grass it will shift but agree with the above and starting to think a small self propelled would be easier but struggle to warrant one

 

[mf7480]

The self propelled is no doubt a far better machine but it has to be said when the trailed isn’t going wrong and it’s well set there’s a certain buzz with the amount of grass you can put through them with relatively little power. 250hp on this isn’t far behind the 450hp self propelled on the straight and narrow. You just don’t get the stoppages with lumps etc with the self propelled- they just feed on through. If not- you spit them out and have another go in only a couple of seconds.

The heart still loves a trailed though ?

 

[mf7480]

What self propelled did you go for?
We do 400-500 ac a year through a JF1060 which like you say when sharp and running well always amazes me what grass it will shift but agree with the above and starting to think a small self propelled would be easier but struggle to warrant one

Went for a John Deere 7350. It’s no Claas but a big step up from the JF. Be under no illusion- they eat money nearly as quickly as they eat grass.

Spent £9k getting this one right, it’s singing along quite nicely now though. Doing about 1200/ year with it.

 

[mf7480]

Couple of videos

 

[Big_D]

Couple of videos

Your JF ?????? right in the sweet spot

 

[Wellytrack]

I know it’s really sad but I love the sound of a harvester getting pulled right down working hard.

Yes.

Sad.

So very sad.

 

[davedb]

I know it’s really sad but I love the sound of a harvester getting pulled right down working hard.

Yes.

Sad.

So very sad.

You sad man

me too