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XtraBlatt Issue 02-2018

  • Text
  • Krone
  • Machinery
  • Forage
  • Straw
  • Farmer
  • Contractor
  • Dairy
  • Bales
  • Agricultural
  • Cows

TITLE THEME 1 2 1 Thanks

TITLE THEME 1 2 1 Thanks to the telescopic drawbar, road journeys are without problem for baler and trailer. 2 On the road, the BaleCollect side floor panels fold up and the hydraulic telescopic drawbar is extended. 3 Thanks to the BaleCollect system, the Hasse contractor firm could reduce bale logistic time by 60 %. shoved to the right or to the left to make room for the next so that, finally, three big bales lie side-by-side on the trailer. Including the bale still in the exit canal of the baler, four bales can be collected and placed on a particular location”, he says. “I drop the bales on the headland where fields are short. Where fields are very long, on both sides of the field.” And the boss adds: “the bales grouped in this way can subsequently be very easily collected, by telescopic loader, for instance. We offer collection and transport services to our customers, allowing us to react very quickly. After all, we are used to seeing rain clouds gathering and having to work apace. Usually if it looks like rain, the baling has to stop considerably earlier so that the telescopic loader can load up the last bales in time.” ENORMOUS TIME SAVING In the past, Hasse contractor employees used a telescopic loader with two or three tines and loaded-up bales at the field sides. With the BaleCollect system, the loader works with a grab so that up to four bales at a time can be lifted. As the bales are nearly side-by-side, the loader has much less distance to cover on the field, thus protecting soil. A low-loader transports the bales from the field edges. With this streamlined procedure, farm contractor Hasse and staff were very satisfied right from the start. Explains Jean Muschiol: “Instead of the usual three hours’ work with tined loader and individually laid bales, we took just around an hour with the BaleCollect system for getting the same number of bales off the field. We can assess procedure time precisely because we document all our work via appropriate software.” While this year, weather conditions were optimal with no rain, the soil surfaces were very dry (and thus uneven), preventing highest working speeds. But baling rate reached 65 per hour although there were times when the loader had to wait for more bales. Theoretically, says Dirk Hasse, up to 150 bales/h are possible. Naturally, however, this is always dependent on how heavy and dense the customer wants the bales. For instance, the Raiffeisen cooperative requires very heavy and compact bales of 2.3 x 1.20 x 0.90 m and 500 kg, so that numbers per hour were less. WELL EQUIPPED For the future, Dirk Hasse sees the BaleCollect system as an advantage for his company, especially in difficult years. “We got off very lightly in the extreme summer of 2018 because yield penalties were not so dramatic here as in some other 12

3 regions. However, our straw yields were down too, by about 20%. I would say that, on the bottom line, results were right for us and the good weather represented a compensation for farm contractors, making up for the previous three bad years that were very wet. For instance, in 2017 we were travelling to individual fields up to 10 times before all the straw was finally driven home – an enormous logistical input. Things would probably have been substantially easier with the bale collection trailer. Thus, we are happy with the 2018 season. There was no damage worthy of mention and the new system proved itself.” After the grain and straw harvest, work for the Hasse contractor firm is still not finished because it’s also involved in marketing grain. Dirk Hasse does this for many farms that hire him as contractor. Working in the contractor firm are 22 full-time hands as well as four students. During the season, about 40 extra hands are brought in. Says Dirk Hasse: “With us, fluctuation amongst workers is very low. I put a lot of faith in ensuring job satisfaction and building a good team. It certainly helps here that our staff and customers all know each other. Many of our customers come from the locality and all our contracting work is carried out within a diameter of 60 km. Naturally, our transport work is completely different. Here, we cover distances of up to 300 km.” On the services offered by his firm, Dirk Hasse adds: “We offer the all-round care packet. We note that it is increasingly important for contractors to offer not just one service in the form of work, but also to be strongly active in advisory aspects. Nowadays, clients assume that contractors know all aspects of the job and offer the full range of services: from unfailing application of the newest machinery through knowledge of legal aspects and crop growing advice. We try as far as possible not to fail them in this respect. This keeps us in the market. I look forward to the coming year because I know that the new bale collection trailer will give us a decisive advantage in straw harvesting.” « 5 different bale placement patterns 3 + 1 bales 3 bales 2 bales (together) Up to four bales can be laid on the stubble in various patterns by the bale collection trailer. 2 bales (spaced) 1 bale 13