Schuitemaker forage wagon
- Thread starter Pethey390
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- Herefordshire
If your thinking of buying one I think you have answered your own question.....
john432
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
Only hearsay, but think they can be power hungry. Probably due to the extra distance the grass has to travel around the front of the rotor.
Barmyfarmer
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Slightly power hungry yes, but it is seriously well made kit, I would quite happily have one over strautmann or pottinger
Barmyfarmer
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Most consistent chop length I found
I had one on demo , two loads was enough to rule out ever owning one , impossible to drive with 170 hp on the day , the pottinger torro working beside was moving twice the grass per hour with half the diesel. The knife is a bad design , to explain it simply , if you were cutting timber with a hand saw , you would go over and back across the timber , the shuitemaker design would be to not saw it but just push it straight down through , takes far more power , also in wet grass it could not fill a load and was mulching the grass , as I said two loads was enough for me to rule it out.
Not true , any of the big new 45 knife machines will chop all the grass perfectly.
Had a demo of a 125 maybe 10 years ago. Same experience, had 180hp on its knees and burnt an unreal amount of diesel.
It’s the short knife design that takes the power , a 6” knife with no sawing effect. All other wagons have a 12 to 18” long serrated cutting edge, compared to a 6” cutting edge with no serrations.
They even had half of the knives out before they brought it to me .
It put me off wagons anyway. Did one 12 acre field, 3 mile draw and it took me 12 hours. Burnt 200 litres of diesel. It went back to the dealers sharpish
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
New ones are supposed to be less power hungry. You can get a THM aftermarket rotor which takes less power aswell.
They where the first true combi wagons which is nice in holland but a bit pointless if you don't have maize or another wholecrop.
You can go to a dutch forum but they seem to be a bit like marmite so you are likely to get opinions of people that either love them or hate them.
They where the first true combi wagons which is nice in holland but a bit pointless if you don't have maize or another wholecrop.
You can go to a dutch forum but they seem to be a bit like marmite so you are likely to get opinions of people that either love them or hate them.
The reality here is there was a big push on them by a big dealer he sold none and then he took on pottinger and sold 25 a year , says it all really.
In fairness my tm burns 18l/hr drawing slurry!
Gerbert
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- Dutch biblebelt
I think they are not suited for your conditions very much.
I find it interesting how Dutch machinery does abroad, however you have such a history of over-the-top claims that I simply don't believe most things you say.
No I don’t tell lies , those shuitemaker only suit men with 300 hp tractors , because nothing less will get output out of them , plus they mulch the grass too much , not good for the grass .
Gerbert
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- Dutch biblebelt
I was quite carefull of not saying you are lying. You simply have a history of telling stories that SEEM about a 1000 percent off.
No I only give 100% facts that I can stand over , shuitemaker are not a good machine end of story , might be well built but still give plenty of gear box and shaft trouble , I know of two of them that were sold here and had to go back to holland to be fixed . The bottom line is they are a great trailer , but that’s where it ends .
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