TUNING: With the silage season fast approaching we’re treated to a tour of a Claas Jaguar 880 that has been heavily modified — to make it more productive, more efficient and more user friendly. Perhaps you can apply some of the featured tweaks to your own 800 back home
Downtime is a curse for all agricultural operations, but none more so than when it strikes the business’s forage harvester. For this not only affects productivity of the forager itself, but also all of the many other associated machines, and their operators, who must grind to a halt, too: trailers, wheeled loader on the clamp … and then other kit such as the mower, tedder and rake, all of which want to avoid getting too far ahead of the now stationary harvester just in case the weather should turn.
The mods carried out on the featured forager certainly can’t claim to remove all risk of costly downtime — they might ‘claim’ to, but quite rightly nobody’s going to believe that sort of piffle. They’re more aimed at boosting overall performance, extending the life of components by installing more sympathetic control systems and generally making the machine more user friendly. It’s a case of little, yet significant, tweaks here and there.
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