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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of mowers, tedders and rakes.
July 21, 2002
Practical test: …and Claas claims that its Volto grass tedders, complete with their so-called Permalink driveline, really do ‘go’. Other Volto unit changes include a beefed-up frame and the option of a hydraulic crop deflector,…
October 5, 2001
Kverneland claims to offer the only mower of its kind in the 4040C mower conditioner – a 4m wide trailed machine with its own integrated grouper. Andrew Faulkner travels across the Irish Sea to operate…
September 13, 2001
With forager outputs continuing on their seemingly relentless upwards climb, the mower sector is doing its best to keep up – hence the move towards 9m+ self-propelled units. First there was the Big M from…
August 21, 2001
Practical test: Electro-hydraulics play a big part in the Claas Liner 3000 four-rotor rake, which is capable of gathering in a massive 12m of grass into the one swath. Is such sophistication justified on what…
August 23, 2001
The obvious route to boosting rear-mounted mower workrates is to stick a second unit onto the front of the tractor. But there are alternatives. Perhaps surprisingly, a big trailed mower is capable of returning similar…
July 21, 1999
Practical test: That's the question – and a question that needs sorting very early on in the mower decision-making process. As an example of this disc/drum dilemma, profi compared two Claas mower conditioners – Corto…
February 5, 1998
Three knives per disc and a substantial frame are the two distinguishing features on Vicon’s KMT 3000 mower, which was introduced for the 1997 season. profi tested a central drawbar version throughout the whole season…
July 21, 1997
USED MACHINERY: If you are after a used drum mower and a Claas WM or Corto becomes available, make a point of taking a look. These are good machines. But you do need to know…
April 21, 1997
PRACTICAL TEST: In 1996, Greenland introduced the Vicon HPC intensive mower conditioner. Many claims have been made for the machine, the most important of which is a faster wilt than a conventional mower conditioner. Last…
April 13, 1996
The Taarup mower/auto-swather has attracted much interest from farmers and contractors looking to increase swath size without having to row-up ahead of the forager. This practical field test shows how this popular trailed disc mower…
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