KUBOTA continued its market push into the hay arena last week with the release of new Krone EasyCut TC 400 and TC 500 mower conditioners.
According to Kubota, the EasyCut Trailed Center (TC) mower conditioner is the ideal mower for hay producers looking for a larger pull-type mower, but require narrow transport widths.
The optional end-wise transport can change the machine from working position to three metres (10ft) wide transport position in only 30 seconds.
Using the in-cab control box, the mower swings 90 degrees from working position to transport, and an axle pivots under the mower to support it during road transportation.
This makes it the ideal mower conditioner for fields with narrow gates or those travelling on narrow roads, meaning you can take a 4.8m (16ft) mower through a 3m gate or stay within your lane on the road.
The size of these mowers, coupled with the centre pivoting capability, makes them even more efficient than a standard side-pull mower.
The centre pivot allows mowing up and down the field in either direction to minimise the number of turns in the field.
The EasyCut TC mowers also come with the option of a two-point hitch or drawbar hook-up.
The EasyCut TC 400 has a working width of 4m (13ft) with a 90kW (120hp)-rated tractor PTO while the EasyCut TC 500 has a working width of 4.8m and a 114kW (150hp)-rated tractor PTO.
The 3.3m (10.9ft)-wide conditioner on both models is currently the widest available in the market, creating wider, consistent windrows resulting in faster dry down times.
Built with the producer in mind, the EasyCut TC is available with multiple conditioning options including no conditioner, steel chevron rollers, polyurethane intermeshing rollers or new style v-tines. Plus, the operator has the ability to remove the conditioner if no conditioning is needed.
The exclusive Krone low-profile cutterbar design allows for an even cut, and the SmartCut cutterbar provides for a clean cut and smooth crop flow, even in light crops.
The SafeCut hubs protect the cutterbar when a disc comes into contact with a foreign object by shearing a roll pin within the sprocket, and the disc spinning up and out of the way of neighbouring discs.
Ken Wilson
Farm Weekly's machinery writer.
Farm Weekly's machinery writer.
