No sorry went from jf900 to 1350Thanks for the info. Ever run a jd 1365? Comparrison?
No sorry went from jf900 to 1350Thanks for the info. Ever run a jd 1365? Comparrison?
Wilting can be an issue in heavy first cut in that case we leave it in singles but if it’s dry and in second and third cuts it’s perfect we aim for 30% dm so don’t want it too dry. We try to lay them side by side so they can dry foragers pickup is 3.1m so not an issue. We also bale 3rd cut with ease with a Krone big square baler sometimes if clamps are too fullTidy looking,can you get a good wilt with the grouper and are the swaths tight enough for a trailed machine?
No sorry i meant a jd 1365 mowerNo sorry went from jf900 to 1350
Easily but as you say you would need good sized fields, a vario tractor because keeping the drum at full rpm is quicker than mauling it and a nice wide swath with no contamination at all because as soon as you lose the edge on the knives it's hard thirsty goingI'd reckon a 1460 hitched up to 300hp would get through 100 acres a day.
Need everything else to scale though or its pointless.
Easily but as you say you would need good sized fields, a vario tractor because keeping the drum at full rpm is quicker than mauling it and a nice wide swath with no contamination at all because as soon as you lose the edge on the knives it's hard thirsty going View attachment 881384
Only for the first time around, can only really turn right with it folded in and can only really turn left with it folded out without the pto knocking, keep a the trailers out the hedge.You run with the swath between the wheels and the chopper directly behind?
We used to pick up autoswathed rows without problems then went to raking to get more output but have had problems with stone in the silage and the knives going blunt quickly. This year had a merger in the get the output without the stone and the chopper is still sharp after 90acres. Vario also makes it a lot easier on the driver to drive.We normally do 70/75acres a day with a 1060 and mf 7724 chopping 2 into 1 raked rows. Normally chop for 12 hours a day. As said a good edge on the blades helps no end and cvt transmission help a lot but we didn’t do much less with a mf 6490 on the chopper. Will use 280/300L of fuel a day. Most of output is lost by stopping the right number of trailers and not pushing to hard so your block the pickup all the time.
200hp should be good for 1st and 2nd cut 2in1 . Also to consider is the width of them, gate ways and moving on the road, around 3.5m.Considering upgrading from 1100 to jf 1350, to pick up three swarths and to speed up the operation, 1100 is getting worn also, currentily picking up with 6930 presume I will need 200 hp plus, dont want spfh due to maintenace costs. Any opinions?
200hp should be good for 1st and 2nd cut. Also to consider is the width of them, gate ways and moving on the road, around 3.5m.
How long would you leave heavy first cut , before picking it up ?Wilting can be an issue in heavy first cut in that case we leave it in singles.
We stick 3 10s of heavy first July cut threw a mex6Two tens of heavy first cut is plenty for any trailed blower.
Just move faster.
We stick 3 10s of heavy first July cut threw a mex6
You’ll hear and read of the headline ‘100 acre days’ using a JF chopper, and there’s no doubt they can, on occasion do 100 acres in a day. The difference is to even a small self propelled, they will not do 100 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.
It loves itWouldn’t be good for it though. The weight of that on the cam.
You should. It’s a good machine and more manageable than the 13/1460The 3.5 meter wide bit is why we have a 1060. I would like to try a 1260.