Alongside the new front mower, Sip was unveiling a light-weight triple, the Alpine Disc 800D. Garry Daly from Irish importer Farmec says that there its customers have been asking about a lower cost rear butterfly to help increase output but at a more modest price point.
The 7.95m wide model uses a pair of belt driven, seven disc beds. Like the other Sip mowers, these are a welded construction, with the grey painted parts fabricated from Hardox steel. There is mechanical breakback protection while the top spring controls the outside of the mowers suspension, while the lower looks after the inside. 110hp is said to be enough to power these plain mowers.
The Disc 340F FC is a pull-type front mower that weights 1,246kg and uses the new S Flow II headstock. This benefits from increased travel which allows it to be raised higher at the headland for better swath clearance. It only needs one hydraulic service – with the pressure line isolated once set, the same spool is used to raise and lower the mower. There is a choice of steel or plastic for the conditioning tines.
Also on show for the first time was the new Spider HD1700-16T trailed tedder. The 16 rotors (1.45m diameter) cover a working width of 17.2m. Each unit has lateral movement that can amount to a 2.0m change in height across the spreading width. The running gear of the show machine was on 500/45 R22.5 and there is also a choice of a drawbar or linkage coupling, the latter allowing tighter turns. Now the biggest tedder in the Sip range, it is also the first of its machines to have ISObus.
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