Kverneland 4 rotor rake

[Serup]

I'm looking for a 4 rotor rake, as i want to rake my own grass from this season. We are using 12m tracks in grass (width of slurry injector), so it needs to take at least 12 meters.

I have found a nice kverneland 95150 15m rake, at a reasonable price. The selection around here, is primarely claas 3500, 3600 and 4000 and some krone swadro 1400's.

A few has told me that the reason the kverneland is not common, is that it is not strong enough, so reliability and maintenance will be worse than on the alternatives. That is based mostly on 15-20 year old experience though.

The kverneland is 5-6 years newer than equivalent priced class rakes.

Does anyone have any recent experience with these kverneland rakes, or any suggestions on what to look for or avoid?

 

[Lewis]

@Battlefield Machinery should be able to help you out .

 

[Dave W]

@Battlefield Machinery should be able to help you out .

Have they got a branch in Denmark

 

[Battlefield Machinery]

Have they got a branch in Denmark

Not yet!!

 

[Battlefield Machinery]

@Battlefield Machinery should be able to help you out .

We have a couple out, they do a very good job, the earlier ones were a bit awkward to use, they had a pretty simple box that made switching between modes a bit of a pain, also they were a bit light on the headstock but they have weighted them now a bit more. the new ones we have out are on isobus, and if you put that through the iso joystick, it really is the making of the machine.
The rotors have adjustable cam track on the back so you can shape the rows , which is neat also.beauty of it is in our conditions , they come in to form a very neat swath , even at 9 1/2 metres....
I’ll try and find some video’s...
In my opinion they offer a very good alternative to the main brands mentioned, the big rake market I think can be hard to get into as many are sold with the forager , hence not even getting a look in,

 

[Serup]

We have a couple out, they do a very good job, the earlier ones were a bit awkward to use, they had a pretty simple box that made switching between modes a bit of a pain, also they were a bit light on the headstock but they have weighted them now a bit more. the new ones we have out are on isobus, and if you put that through the iso joystick, it really is the making of the machine.
The rotors have adjustable cam track on the back so you can shape the rows , which is neat also.beauty of it is in our conditions , they come in to form a very neat swath , even at 9 1/2 metres....
I’ll try and find some video’s...
In my opinion they offer a very good alternative to the main brands mentioned, the big rake market I think can be hard to get into as many are sold with the forager , hence not even getting a look in,

Many years ago (15-20) kverneland 4 rotor rakes had a big markedshare here, as Taarup is local. Later on, class got a lot sold with foragers as you mention. Now krone is moving in on that marked and take a lot of markedshare.

It is this one i’m looking at:

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[Battlefield Machinery]

Many years ago (15-20) kverneland 4 rotor rakes had a big markedshare here, as Taarup is local. Later on, class got a lot sold with foragers as you mention. Now krone is moving in on that marked and take a lot of markedshare.

It is this one i’m looking at:

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Ahhh she’s the big one, I have a couple of mates that have sold them, I think they’re were a few mods to be done to them which was to put temperature control valve to keep the flow constant as oil warms up in the tractor, but some good things, the front arms act s a break back if you hit anything, the gearboxes are the heavy duty gearboxes, steering axle, (although that’s probs my more useful for us in the Uk) but I would think that is an iso machine there so a lot in common with what I said about the 95130 rake!

 

[Gerbert]

I had a side delivery 2 rotor kverneland. Although it did the job ok ish it never installed all that much confidence in vicon/kverneland/taarup/deutz-fahr rakes in me. If the price is right fair enough, but there are simply better things out there.
Biggest problem to me was simply not raking very nicely, leaving stripes behind the tractor wheels. Throwing gras back in certain conditions, low working speed, a stupid tine arm coupling design prone to play that will make tinearms break off...
On the other hand, I did like the very tall square rows it could make and how much I could pack in them. But that is very much down to it being a side delivery so you could pretty much make the row as dense as you liked. Also the terralink carriage under the rotors was very good.
If it is cheap enough why not.

 

[Gerbert]

Made a decision @Serup ?

 

[Serup]

Made a decision @Serup ?

I was adviced not to look at the kverneland by another kverneland dealer i use.
i am going to look at a few claas liner 3500 and 3600 tomorrow at a big claas dealer.
75% of used 4 rotor rakes for sale in Denmark are claas. I am very curious at what prices they are wanting in a straight deal, as there are many for sale.

 

[Gerbert]

I know a local krone salesman who also does some trade for himself in incidentally also does a ride to denmark every now and then with his lorry and lowloader. I could ask him if he feels like selling a rake to denmark if you want.

 

[Serup]

I know a local krone salesman who also does some trade for himself in incidentally also does a ride to denmark every now and then with his lorry and lowloader. I could ask him if he feels like selling a rake to denmark if you want.

It could be interesting to see how the price was. I have been offered a krone swadro 1400, but i haven’t seen it yet.
it will depend on how fast it could get here though, as we are getting close to first cut, if it ever stops raining.