In this issue we have already looked at buying a second-hand 8000 series Deere forager. Here we speak to some end-users to glean some performance-enhancing tips. With a hectic maize and grass workload, the team at G-S-R, a busy contracting operation from Bavaria in southern Germany, has come up with several tweaks to extract every ounce of output from the firm’s forager fleet.
The topic of ‘tuning forage harvesters’ is something we’ve covered several times before, but the optimisation tweaks from the G-S-R team, Günter Schneider, Marcus Groß and Bernhard Ranz, go beyond adding some extra lights or an air hose to help keep the machine clean. The trio went straight to the heart of the machine and developed various mods for foraging in the hilly fields of the Alps.
In total, the harvesting team has seven forage harvesters in operation, primarily for grass harvesting. Especially during the first cut, when the company is at its busiest, any tweak that helps to get through the workload is a valuable tip and well worth having. It’s all about maximising output.
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