DRIVING IMPRESSION: A lot of machine for the money. That’s not something you hear very often, but it’s the case here. Teagle’s front/rear topper lists at £11,190 and offers an overall work width of 4.9m and low power demand. Read on to find out if the good news continues.
Pasture topping: We are not going to get into the old debate of tidying up grazed grassland with a rotary topper versus a disc or drum mower. There’s
infinite space on the internet for that to and fro conversation, which no doubt will never reach a definite conclusion.
For those in the pasture topper camp, Teagle has this intriguing option of its rear-mounted offset Topper 8 model working together with a reconfigured inline Topper 9 unit on the front linkage. It’s not alone in offering such a front/rear outfit, but the real eyebrow raiser is the cost of this combination, which on-farm is less than £9,000. Yeah, that’s right: 4.9m of cutting width for sub-£9k!
Now, we’d be steering you down the wrong path to suggest that these units could mulch up heavy SFI grasses and mixes to the same extent as a batwing mulcher, but for grassland pasture topping we found that the doubled up combination is a real acre eater.
Familiar front…
The front topper is a simple machine that has appeared in Teagle’s price list for many years albeit predominantly as a rear-mounted unit. The Topper 9 is a 9ft — that’s 2.70m in today’s money — inline topper that has been rejigged so it can be mounted on the front arms either as a standalone machine or in tandem with a rear topper.
For life up front, the 9 gets a different gearbox. Still sourced from Comer, this has been geared to accept the usual 1,000rpm input from a tractor’s front pto. Drive is then directed left and right through driveshafts to the two rotor gearboxes. There is the option of a slip clutch protected pto; otherwise it will have shearbolt overload protection.
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