PRACTICAL TEST: When Claas introduced the revamped 7000 and 8000 hybrid Lexions, it also unveiled some new walker models, which are now available in the UK and Ireland. We tested the biggest of the five-walker models, the Terra Trac 5500
It might still carry the Lexion name, but the changes in the new 5000s and 6000s are as big a leap as when the Mega gave way to the first Lexions over 20 years ago. Most significantly the drum and concave are 26% bigger in diameter and, for the first time, Claas’s engineers have added a rotary separator to the firm’s walker machines.
Given such big changes, we were keen to see how the revamped combine would perform. Our test 5500 Terra Trac had nearly every option ticked including CEMOS Automatic, an extra that costs more than my neighbour’s actual combine. We’ll take a more in-depth look at CEMOS on combines in the June issue, along with the two types of header that were supplied, the Vario 770 and Convio 770 Flex
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