DRIVING IMPRESSION: Having offered mounted mowers for a couple of years, Irish manufacturer Malone is now targeting the professional contractor end of the market with a trailed mower conditioner model. Mervyn Bailey takes a closer look at the firm’s Pro Cut 960C.
After cutting its design teeth on manufacturing 2.15m and 2.46m mounted mowers and toppers, Malone has added a new 2.9m trailed mower conditioner model to its line up – to complement the firm’s Trojan silage wagon range.
Launched at the Irish Ploughing Match last year, the Pro Cut 960C attracted particular attention from an understandably partisan home crowd. Enthusiasm justified? Or little more than the mechanical equivalent of nepotism? To determine whether this Malone mower build configuration – the mating of a Comer-sourced driveline with a cutting bed based around an in-house chassis and conditioner – works, we elected to put the Pro Cut 960C through its paces knocking down a crop of first-cut silage.
