Sumo Strake Review??

[Shutesy]

If you have any amount of swathed straw missed by a baler or flat corn missed by the combine I would say you need a set of discs or you need to get busy with a flail topper, discs probably the better option. The rakes aren't all that different in the job they do. Any rake will block or drag if you chuck enough of a heap of unchopped straw into it and probably wont achieve much in flat corn other than to block if it pulls enough up. As I am still finding out, stubble management is key to strip-till, get the combine driver to try and pick the flat bits up if possible and make sure the baler driver gets all the swathed straw!

 

[Pigless]

I have one I use along with a DTS had the drill for 4 seasons and the rake for 2. It's a big lump and takes a bit of lifting fendt 820 ok with weight on, not without! Spreads any straw or flat barley around really well. Very versatile on how you can set it up, takes a while to work out the best way to run it and it varies from crop to crop. I have just fitted a seeder on for forage rape and mustard etc. Never used another brand but like this one.

 

[principal skinner]

I have a claydon rake and find the key to spreading straw is the sun must be out and it must be dry, if you can catch it just right it hangs in the rake and slowly trickles out as you go down the field.

Stubble management starts with the combine.

 

[Brisel]

15m Claydon rake here. Does a great job of spreading lumps of unbaled straw but as above, it must be dry or they do not fall out & just bung up in the machine. Not combining weather? Not raking weather either!

 

[General-Lee]

15m Claydon rake here. Does a great job of spreading lumps of unbaled straw but as above, it must be dry or they do not fall out & just bung up in the machine. Not combining weather? Not raking weather either!

Surprisingly power hungry aren’t they, how ponies up front?

 

[Brisel]

Surprisingly power hungry aren’t they, how ponies up front?

It makes 190hp grunt on the slopes if you're really digging the tines in

 

[Acke]

How fast do you go?
190 seems to be little ?

 

[Brisel]

It depends on how level the ground is. 12-14 kph is normal.

 

[Acke]

It depends on how level the ground is. 12-14 kph is normal.

We have a 7,5m and try to run it around 20kph ! It seems to work best in high speed?! It need 175hp.
But it is my 2 cent experiance!

 

[Brisel]

Mounted ones can go faster. My trailed starts bouncing and the frame whips which can’t be good for it.

 

[Acke]

OK.