DRIVING IMPRESSION: As mowers get ever wider the rest of the harvesting chain has had to grow to cope. Take Claas’s Volto 1100 for instance, which boasts 10 rotors and a broad 10.7m working width, all on a mounted machine
One major advantage of mounted machines over their trailed counterparts is cost. A fine example of this is the Volto 1100, a 10-rotor machine and the largest mounted tedder that Claas produces — but it still has a 10.7m working width. Claas even makes a trailed version of the Volto 1100, although it’s not offered in the UK or Ireland.
The Volto is attached via Cat II couplers. Our test model sported the £365 optional gauge wheel on the three-point headstock. This makes hitching up even easier as the wheel works with a top link rocker, similar to an elongated hole in that it offers lots of flexibility during field work as well as speeding up the job of connecting the top link.
There is no need for a wide-angle UJ in the driveline, which spins at 540rpm. On the hydraulic side of things, two spool valves are required — one single-acting for releasing the transport lock mechanism and a doubleacting for folding and lowering the tedder. The border spread system (standard in the UK and Ireland) needs an additional singleacting spool to operate the curtain.
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