Hi, looking for a good single rotor rake for next season! What is the best on the market? Going for single because of costs of buying a decent twin and also for some smaller fields. Cheers
Smaller fields are no more work with a twin rotor than they are with a single, possibly even easier to do imo. Have used both over plenty acres wouldn't go back to the single for anything.Hi, looking for a good single rotor rake for next season! What is the best on the market? Going for single because of costs of buying a decent twin and also for some smaller fields. Cheers
Kuhn 4321 here since earlier in year, it's an 06 and not a hole lot of wear on it yet apart from the plates that hold on the time arms have a small bit of wear from the linch pins. Width wise it's tight enough to get 3 3m swarths in for baler pick up but no problem for harvester. Good heavy axles on the bogies aswell.
Before we got it we had the use of a krone 460, certainly not a bad rake in fairness, the extra bit of width was handy alright, but I didn't like the curtain as it had a habit of jamming on the slide. Wasn't overly gone on the folding arms either, didn't think there was a whole lot in it time wise as you only need to remove about 5 arms, and if only going field to field i just throw enough arms out through the gate to get it through.
It also leaves the take awfully long both on the road and in storage...
We had a kuhn before this one too, to be fair it was a good rake. Sadly it didn't appreciate hitting a tree, twice.... but then no rake would!!! One major bonus for the Krone over the kuhn is that the longer PTO shaft allows it to be lifted clear of big swaths of straw/hay at the headlands.
When your looking, the more tine arms the better also! Our kuhn had 10, this has 13 (I think!) makes for a faster machine and better sweep in short dry stuff.
Smaller fields are no more work with a twin rotor than they are with a single, possibly even easier to do imo. Have used both over plenty acres wouldn't go back to the single for anything.
Would need a tractor with a pto brake on to get away with only removing some of the arms. Used to use a single rotor Krone on an MF 690 could occasionally get away with leaving arms in but usually it would start to turn just as you were trying to get through the field gate.
naughty tree jumping out at you
We had a kuhn before this one too, to be fair it was a good rake. Sadly it didn't appreciate hitting a tree, twice.... but then no rake would!!! One major bonus for the Krone over the kuhn is that the longer PTO shaft allows it to be lifted clear of big swaths of straw/hay at the headlands.
When your looking, the more tine arms the better also! Our kuhn had 10, this has 13 (I think!) makes for a faster machine and better sweep in short dry stuff.
Smaller fields are no more work with a twin rotor than they are with a single, possibly even easier to do imo. Have used both over plenty acres wouldn't go back to the single for anything.
Would need a tractor with a pto brake on to get away with only removing some of the arms. Used to use a single rotor Krone on an MF 690 could occasionally get away with leaving arms in but usually it would start to turn just as you were trying to get through the field gate.
naughty tree jumping out at you
Not me! The cousin thankfully, then after it was fixed he lent it to a neighbour on my behalf! Who's drug fuelled worker (well I recon he was anyhow) reversed down a field without noticing and hit a hedge!
Either way a big chunk of the track must have cracked, eventually came off, resulting in the machine shaking itself to death!
Anyone who drives the rake now has a strict warning, if you hit anything hard enough to bend an arm or two, keep hitting it! Cos i don't want anything other than an insurance write off on my hands!!
Still rather have the twin in. If straw gets wet a run with the tedder first helps. If you have a single you end up turning rows towards each other, where as twins you are turning all one wayThe Kuhn locks when in transport, so no bother only removing some of the arms.
The twin rotor rakes are not near as handy in straw
When we have wet 35ft straw swaths our single rotor rake has all on to deal with them, and ends up making the swaths tighter and denser. This then prevents wind blowing through, making matters worse especially if it rains again. We find it best to spread them with a 6m tedder then rake back up when dry with the twin rotor.
Yeah, I can see how a 35ft row of heavy straw would be way too much for a single rotor rake alright.
I'd only be dealing with small combines here, a 16ft and an 18ft and the single rotor rake does a very good job on them.
Had to do some after a 10ft this year and a twin rotor would have been a gift there right enough, but that was only a once off job thankfully.
I have a fella and the cost of parts for it are crazy so stay away. I think Krone parts are pretty cheap compared to fella parts. One thing i have noticed is clearance off the ground. For straw the longer the tines the better so you are not dragging straw around with the rotar.
Google Cunningham Covers, they might make you one, they have a place in Naas, Kildare and Maghera, in NILooking for a curtain for a 15 ft single rotor rake, it's a Taarup 9146 they were also sold as kverneland. Is there anybody making the like of these or is it main dealer only?View attachment 80274