Giant rake and more mowers from Kuhn

From Sept 1st there will be a number of new grassland kit additions to the Kuhn price list. Arguably the stand-out debutant is the monster GA 15131 four-rotor rake (9.5m-14.7m working width) — effectively a wider and beefed-up version of the 13m model launched a couple of years ago. Key feature is the hydraulic driveline, which enables the front pair of rotors to be driven up to 20% faster than the rear pair to form an easier-to-pick-up swath. On top of that, the machine is also now fully ISObus-compatible, allowing, for example, the rake’s headland management sequence to be initiated from the raking tractor’s joystick, assuming, of course, the tractor has ISObus capability. As for the new mowers, it’s largely a matter of bringing the firm’s plain mower offering into line with its mower conditioner equivalents introduced in 2015. So, the 9.53m GMD 9530 and 9.93m GMD 10030 are the conditioner-less rear mower sibs to the FC 9530 and FC 10030 mo-cos, and, similarly, the front-mounted 3.1m GMD 3125 F and 3.5m GMD 3525 F are the conditioner-less versions of the already-on-sale front-mounted FCs. Most of the features, including Lift Control suspension, are shared. Others news are that the rear-mounted GMD 1011 plain mowers (2.67m-4.35m working width) come in to replace the GMD 1010 line, and the rear-mounted FC 104 series mo-cos (2.4m-3.1m working width) take over from the 103 series. Again all the new models benefit from the updated Lift Control suspension/breakback system.