The highest forage quality
The highest forage quality
High yield dairy cattle need a high quality basic ration with the optimum forage structure. When developing the JUMBO the primary objectives were; ensure clean and gentle forage collection, provide a short and even chop, along with avoiding needless wastage of forage and power by ensuring a high output.
The new JUMBO developments include; hydraulically controlled floating pick-up with new jockey wheel linkage along with additional tracking roller, new drive concept, new rotor, chopping system and movable front panel. These advances were all the result of our listening to our customers and faithfully meeting their requirements. These developments are all the result of our listening to our customers and faithfully meeting their requirements.
Perfect chopping quality
In addition to the great importance of the optimum dry matter content, the chopped length of the forage has a significant influence on the quality of the grass silage. This reduces the rumination time and makes it easier for the rumen to process. Both parameters lead to faster pH reduction, which reduces the risk of fermentation errors and has a positive effect on the stability of the grass silage. This lays the foundation for high dry matter intake.
34 or 25 mm Short chop
The JUMBO is the ideal choice for the highest forage quality thanks to the short-chop chopping system with a theoretical chopped length of 34 mm on the 7000 series and 25 mm on the 8000 series.
The long arc of the knives ensures a slicing cut along the full length of the knife edge. The forage is chopped right through exactly and uniformly. The forage has the optimum structure for ruminants.
Clean pick-up
The pick-up tines on the JUMBO are controlled in a sweeping arc. This guarantees best possible sward protection and low crude ash ingress. Additionally, the speed is adapted to prevent needless tine wear.
The interaction of the controlled pick-up with the floating pick-up suspension and the low pressure on the ground result in the cleanest possible collection of the crop. This ensures the contamination level is within the limit values of 80–100 g/kg of dry matter.
1 % less crude ash at a yield of 7500 kg DM/ha yields 300 l – 350 l more milch. With grass silage, a 1 % increase in crude ash/kg DM translates into a reduction in energy concentration in the forage of approx. 0.1 MJ NEL/kg DM.
Our customers place great value on the highest quality forage
"When it comes to loader wagons, we place particular emphasis on the chopping quality. The wagon has to deliver top chopping system performance and the new JUMBO gives us exactly that. The hydraulically driven, controlled pick-up is a very good solution from my point of view, because you can regulate the pick-up speed depending on the driving speed. This prevents the forage from being dragged through so that it passes into the rotor parallel to the knives.
The loader wagon's loading system also contributes to good forage quality. That's why we use the optimised automatic loading system to make sure the forage in the loader wagon isn't compressed too hard or too little."
Jeff Reiff, Farmer & Contractor , Troisvierges | Luxemburg