Mud on public roads is a serious issue during late-season harvesting and is fast becoming outlawed in Europe and the UK. The need to ensure it stays in the field has resulted in some interesting concepts, but the novel solution developed by French-manufacturer Perard takes some beating. The company has offered its Trans-eXpress grain transfer system for a number of years, and a technique that allows cereal and maize grain to be unloaded into a hopper at the headland, for loading into dedicated road-going vehicles. Now it has developed a version for crops that cannot pass through an auger, such as maize silage, potatoes and carrots. Called the Trans-eXpress TE 1000, the contents from the 3.30cu.m. hopper are unloaded quickly via a 1m-wide conveyor into road vehicles with sides as high as a 5m. Packed up and towed quickly from field to field behind an 80hp tractor, Perard’s British importer Quivogne UK sees a lot of potential mileage for the system, and had hoped to bring it to LAMMA. In the event, the finishing touches to the first unit were completed just in time for last week’s SIMA 2015, in Paris. The plan now is to bring a machine to this year’s Cereals Event. In Europe, prices start from around €60,000.
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