Claas V 1050 header: Claas could hardly have got its timing better. Just as the smaller UK arable farmer decides to return to the new combine market, the harvester manufacturer introduces a range of machines, the Tucano, that is aimed squarely at this size of grower. More luck than judgement, perhaps, but there it is. At the tail end of last harvest we tucked a Tucano 450 model into a crop of triticale
It’s not so many years ago that a 6m header was considered to be a monster. How thinking changes. At a similar time to when we tested the Claas Tucano 450, we also had the chance to see the massive 10.5m Vario header in action, romping through a standing crop of triticale and doing every bit as good a job as its smaller sibs.
Design of the header, not surprisingly, shares much with that of the narrower Claas units. The height control system is the same, as is the Vario cutterbar set-up that enables the operator to slide the knife either 20cm forwards or back in by 10cm according to crop conditions. For rapeseed, the cutterbar is moved forward 50cm and filler plates inserted
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