Which twin rotor rake

[Northeastfarmer]

Over the winter we will be looking at buying a twin rotor rake and selling the krone single rotor rake....will try and find a decent second hand one if not then it will be a new one
recommendations please

 

[icanshootwell]

For leaves is it.

 

[Moorlands]

We swapped our single rotor krone in middle of this summer to make better use of tight weather windows.
Got a Massey Ferguson rk662 ex demo with extra castor wheels and independent rotor lift really happy with it easy to make adjustments to swath width and shape.
Must be reasonably well put together cos old fella uses it and he hasn’t broken it YET!

 

[livestock 1]

Contractor lads talk about Pottenger

 

[Wellytrack]

Anything you like. They are all decent despite what some would let you believe.

 

[Gedd]

Quite a few kverneland around here havnt got onemyself though

 

[KB6930]

Claas would be my first choice kv second we have a kv now claas beforehand. Just make sure you get the right width for what you need

 

[james ds]

Anything you like. They are all decent despite what some would let you believe.

No their not , I had a Kuhn 7501 and it gave a lot of trouble , I swapped it in for a pottinger this year and it is in a differant league. Never misses bits like the Kuhn , can go twice as fast , and has a rotor that doesn't give trouble.

 

[HarryB97]

I like the look of the new 3 point linkage mounted twin rotor rakes by KV & Kuhn, have a neighbour who does lots of work and pushes kit very hard and he's had his Claas for years and it's still in one piece!

 

[Wellytrack]

No their not , I had a Kuhn 7501 and it gave a lot of trouble , I swapped it in for a pottinger this year and it is in a differant league. Never misses bits like the Kuhn , can go twice as fast , and has a rotor that doesn't give trouble.

Your Kuhn was absolutely great. At least it was til it started giving problems. The evidence for this? Your own posts all over this forum and other forums too telling all and sundry how marvellous it was and much work it has done with no issues at all.

Until.................................

 

[Andrew]

Pottinger. We have a 7m twin rotor, think it’s 4 or 5 years old now. Always has a student driver. Doing about 2000 acre a year, 500ish is ridge and furrow, plus 3-400 of straw. Has had a couple of bits this year due to a couple of mishaps but otherwise fine.

Got 6 different Pottinger machines here now, the parts backup is really good and parts are not silly money. If it wasn’t good we wouldn’t keep going back.

 

[hally]

No their not , I had a Kuhn 7501 and it gave a lot of trouble , I swapped it in for a pottinger this year and it is in a differant league. Never misses bits like the Kuhn , can go twice as fast , and has a rotor that doesn't give trouble.

If you have just bought the Pottinger you haven’t had it long enough to give an opinion about its reliability.

 

[ffukedfarmer]

We swapped our single rotor krone in middle of this summer to make better use of tight weather windows.
Got a Massey Ferguson rk662 ex demo with extra castor wheels and independent rotor lift really happy with it easy to make adjustments to swath width and shape.
Must be reasonably well put together cos old fella uses it and he hasn’t broken it YET!

I've been very pleased with my MF RK662. Like you say it's a doddle to alter the swath width.

 

[hally]

If it’s just for your own use and not contracting, any brand will suffice so just pick your favourite dealer. For what it’s worth our Claas 680 was ex contractor when I bought it so done a fair bit of work and I have had it for years with absolutely no bother but Krone very popular around here.

 

[Chae1]

Pottinger. We have a 7m twin rotor, think it’s 4 or 5 years old now. Always has a student driver. Doing about 2000 acre a year, 500ish is ridge and furrow, plus 3-400 of straw. Has had a couple of bits this year due to a couple of mishaps but otherwise fine.

Got 6 different Pottinger machines here now, the parts backup is really good and parts are not silly money. If it wasn’t good we wouldn’t keep going back.

Why do you rake straw?

Small combine.

 

[Andrew]

Why do you rake straw?

Small combine.

Just roll it over when it’s wet. Twin rotor is expensive way of doing it but it’s a 3rd machine to cover the ground.

 

[Chae1]

Just roll it over when it’s wet. Twin rotor is expensive way of doing it but it’s a 3rd machine to cover the ground.

Excuse my ignorance but do you just use one rotor and flip it over like you would with a single rotor?

How do you stop it catching next swath if 7m header.

 

[Andrew]

Excuse my ignorance but do you just use one rotor and flip it over like you would with a single rotor?

How do you stop it catching next swath if 7m header.

Yeah, use it same as a single rotor.

We just send it somewhere with a large enough header, we also have a single rotor and a merger to do any narrow swaths. However I can only think of one place we go to now that has a table less than 7m.

 

[juke]

@Northeastfarmer get a class 2600 bought perfect for the job...

 

[Ducati899]

I’ve a Kuhn for 3 seasons,been a good machine and leaves a lovely swath for my round baler, but like any rake.....it’s only as good as the operator