An Interested Spectator Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Just thumbed through the current copy of Profi magazine, courtesy of my mate W.H. SMITH. In there are a couple of small articles re. zero grazers. One of these featured a guy who was running a DB 996, side mounted single chop forager, and a trailer around 6 tons. The forager was run off a donkey engine mounted below its funnel. The whole article was to the effect that this train was light weight, and was running on wide tyres all round, to stop compaction etc. The forager was mounted close up to the trailer because of the difficulty of blowing wet grass. Now the question is why, then this guy is so concerned about weight, is he running a forager of a donkey engine, and all the extra weight this entails, when on the face of it a 996 should be more than powerful enough to run a forager on its own ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorbob Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 we zero graze ,but our double chop is 1000 pto and the tractor is 135 hp and the trailer is a 8 tonne maston ..when full there is some weight ...perhaps the fella with the 996, is farming steep banks or wet ground and needs the tractors power Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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