The specially designed front end on the Panther comprises an onion lifting unit with a belt-driven square bar and paddles to guide the crop into the machine.
Individual hydraulic control of each of the lifting unit’s functions, allowing the speed of the paddles and digging web to be increased or reduced. Manual depth wheels carry the lifting unit to a set height.
A joystick controlled self-centring lane adjuster ram ensures crop loads in the centre of the lifting unit. Switched on/off from the cab, once the joystick is released the harvester automatically recentres itself.
Crop is then transferred to a longer main web where a rocker agitator separates any remaining soil or root balls, and onto another mechanically driven web before reaching the hydraulically controlled transfer web.
The new cart elevator comes with higher and stronger active fingers on the sides to keep all the crop inside the elevator before it reaches the trailer.
The joystick controlled turret style steering system is said to provide precise control when the machine is steered manually. The steering gear is GPS ready and the turret system can be adjusted to various track widths.
The retail price of £99,500 includes work and road lights and centralised grease banks for bearings. The colour screen control box features an auto levelling system, full headland management system and joystick controls.
