Project Xerion.

[Cab-over Pete]

The actual mounts are basic rubber things, it’s getting to them that’s the hard part.

 

[Jim B]

Pictures, we need pictures! [emoji41]

 

[ollie989898]

Need to see inside the cab.

 

[Chae1]

I've no doubt you have "the gift" pete.

But do you plan to fit gps for autosteer and auto rate control to do vari rate lime across field?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

We’ve had GPS on my spreaders for nearly 13 years for variable rate work.

The only thing I’ve never had is auto steer, because I really like making a good job of the driving myself.

I think this machine actually has auto steer though. There is a GPS box in the cab which we need to persuade to speak English to find out!

 

[yellowbelly]

There is a GPS box in the cab which we need to persuade to speak English to find out!

Going by the amount of help you got from Claas in the early stages of this project the easiest option might be for you to enrol for night classes in German

 

[br jones]

We’ve had GPS on my spreaders for nearly 13 years for variable rate work.

The only thing I’ve never had is auto steer, because I really like making a good job of the driving myself.

I think this machine actually has auto steer though. There is a GPS box in the cab which we need to persuade to speak English to find out!

Ask kev to pop by ,he will swear at it in welsh for you ,then it will do anything you ask

 

[sawdust]

Ask Kev to pop by ,he will swear at it in welsh for you

But, then Pete and the Saddletrac will be left

 

[Clive]

I think the Xerion crab steer mode would need rather extended levels of “the gift” to use well without auto steer

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Probably take them off to lose weight, planning a nice stainless tool box if time allows

You could whip up a wee subframe and pop your spare cab on them?
[QUOTE="Cab-over Pete, post: 6214826, member: 416"a one man band lime spreading outfit has £85,000 squirrelled away!![/QUOTE]
Well, well ... .. . it's just as well we all helped clarify the job's not completely buggered, then, eh?

You'll be like a puppy with an extra pee-pee

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I think the Xerion crab steer mode would need rather extended levels of “the gift” to use well without auto steer

It’s actually very easy to use, even for me!

Once set into your run you just twist the joystick either way until you have the amount of crab you want. As you approach the end of the run you twist the other way and it centres itself before you turn.

I won’t be able to crab fully and use completely different ground for each tyre because that will affect spread patterns too much, but it will help greatly.

I’ve been doing much the same thing with the Multidrive but on a manual switch system whilst looking in the mirror to gauge where my rear wheels are. It worked well until I received a phone call and got in a bit of a tangle.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Few pics showing the ball joints already fitted.

Going to order the sockets tomorrow.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Can you show me roughly how high the bottom of your lime body will be, please Peter? It looks lower than I thought.

And very smart, reflecting over supper I feel the fitting appendage for your front linkage shall be a shark tank, so you don't spend all day polishing the glass

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Well I’m 6ft tall and the top of the Xerion load area is just about nose or eye level.

That’s about a foot higher than the Multidrive.

It wouldn’t want it any higher because weight up high equals instability and also my 5 metre Loadall would struggle to load it much higher. I don’t want to have to swap that too.

 

[CAT_2]

Are you sneaking an inch or two in on me?

 

[Sharpy]

Well I’m 6ft tall and the top of the Xerion loss area is just about nose or eye level.

That’s about a foot higher than the Multidrive.

It wouldn’t want it any higher because weight up high equals instability and also my 5 metre Loadall would struggle to load it much higher. I don’t want to have to swap that too.

If loading height becomes a problem I would look at a 4 in 1 bucket or a toe tip bucket. They fairly shorten cycle times too when you don't need extra height or reach.

 

[Shovelhands]

If loading height becomes a problem I would look at a 4 in 1 bucket or a toe tip bucket. They fairly shorten cycle times too when you don't need extra height or reach.

Toe tip is the way imo

 

[Sharpy]

Toe tip is the way imoView attachment 800156

Aye, but a 4 in 1 is much better for clearing up when tipped in a field. I suspect between the two over a year there will be very little in it though.

 

[Shovelhands]

Aye, but a 4 in 1 is much better for clearing up when tipped in a field. I suspect between the two over a year there will be very little in it though.

Yes a 4in1 for clearing up, but tbh once you’ve sussed it then clearing up isn’t an issue with a toe tip. But I’d argue that the 4in1 will be nowhere near as efficient on the loading front.

If every job was a single heap job, then the amount of clearing up is high, so possibly 4in1 would be better. But if every job was a single heap job then a crane mounted on the machine would be just as well. As soon as you want to load 3-500 tonne a day, on your tod, from one or two bigger heaps, then toe tip all day long imo.

 

[Sharpy]

Yes a 4in1 for clearing up, but tbh once you’ve dissed it then clearing up isn’t an issue with a toe tip. But I’d argue that the 4in1 will be nowhere near as efficient on the loading front.

If every job was a single heap job, then the amount of clearing up is high, so possibly 4in1 would be better. But if every job was a single heap job then a crane mounted on the machine would be just as well. As soon as you want to load 3-500 tonne a day, on your tod, from one or two bigger heaps, then toe tip all day long imo.

Sounds about right!