We’re delighted with our Pottinger here, very lucky that our local dealers as a father and son pairing were both conventional and reversible world champions, so there’s not much you could tell them about ploughing. Personally found KV’s auto reset system to be pretty lacking, can’t keep it in the ground on our heavy land, the 200hp headstock is also pretty soft. Had a contractor come in with a 152 Kuhn also which had a persistent fault with it’s memory ram, don’t know if that problem applies to them all or whether it was just bad luck on our part. Either way the Pottinger surpasses those two and then some, build quality is excellent, and it’s incredibly good at incorporating trash which is very important to us as we chop a lot of straw and spread a lot of dung. Hope this helps.
Which 5 furrow plough?
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stablegirl
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I've been looking at Lemkens, what's the difference between the Juwel and the EurOpal/VariOpal?
I assume the 8 is just a heavier version of the 7's?
I assume the 8 is just a heavier version of the 7's?
Rust
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Maybe not a kongskilde or new holland but the same plough.
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- Co antrim
Yes mines the same only 4 furrow and wheel at the back
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- Forfar,Angus,Scotland
Does yours have separate accumulators for each body?
Just bought a 5fr agrolux which looks identical to new Holland apart from colour.
5f kv eg100 with 300 headstock and 28 boards are the most sold plough in denmark every year for the last 20 years or so. I have one from 13 that do about 250-300 ha/year and never had any bother with it. They keep value very good. ES never got popular here and i don't think i have ever seen one.
You want 100 clearance for muck! I plough about 3000t of much in every year. I would definitely buy one again.
You want 100 clearance for muck! I plough about 3000t of much in every year. I would definitely buy one again.
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- Co antrim
Yes it does and has a seperate tap so u can set the front furrow at higher pressure than the rest. Hydralic release is king compared to spring alough may be more maintenance heavy not sure yet time will tell
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Lemken, look at nothing else but a Lemken. Just sold our 7 furrow Kverneland.
I tried a juwel 8 before i bought my last plough. It is a nice plough. A lot of grease points. And much heavier to lift than my kv eg. And you can’t get it with the wheel out in the back, which i prefer for weight transfer and even depth on rolling land.
Durt Burd
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- SE Ireland
Juwel is the newer version of the Opal and has been a phased introduction with the 8 being the first of them from around 2012.
The 6, 7, 8 and 9 refers to the different size main beam and headstock. If it has an X after the digit that means it is auto-reset which can be a coil spring or hydraulic.
quavers
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kongskildie agrolux and new holland all the same plough
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- Forfar,Angus,Scotland
Is overum no more?Cast front slides were a bit of a problem on CX and dx,we had a couple of each and all cracked at some point, do any of the new Holland ones still use that?
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- Co antrim
Afaik they still make overum
quavers
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- aberdeenshire
dont know any one selling overum now , just kongskildie and new holland ,
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- Co antrim
Afaik william lindsay still sells them
quavers
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Yes had one out a few weeks ago
How is your cross shaft doing?? Our 7030 has chewed one. On a 6furrow kv 85 with packomat press. Front tyres are have 200 litres of water in each side as well!
But you have to leave massive headlands etc is big disadvantage to me....View attachment 1010105An old semi mounted is much easier on the backend of a tractor and they cost sweeties to buy