The loader wagon is a real all-rounder in the harvest chain. It can perform the tasks of crop collection, chopping and transport, all in one machine. In addition, this harvesting process can react easily and quickly to changing conditions. This allows forage to be collected from different fields and mixed at the clamp. Because it operates completely independently of other machines, the loader wagon can also react quickly to bottlenecks in compacting forage in the clamp.
The loader wagon process is best suited for farms with most of the harvested area within a radius of less than 10 km. The low labour requirements and manageable purchase costs make the loader wagon an excellent choice for mechanising your own farm. Often every hour counts, because dry matter content is crucial for silage making. This is where owning your own machine gives you the advantage, because you can start collecting the crop whenever you want. At the same time, loader wagons also enjoy an excellent reputation among contractors thanks to their flexible and easy-to-plan deployment.
All PÖTTINGER loader wagons are equipped with the proven controlled floating pick-up. Due to their large freedom of transverse movement, they can follow any ground contour. For particularly difficult conditions, a trailing jockey wheel chassis is available to guide the pick-up over bumps. This reliably eliminates dirt ingress by preventing the tines from contacting the ground.
By using cam track controlled tines, the tines reliably pick up the material from the ground at low speed and convey it right up to the loading unit. This prevents the stalks from being combed out. The forage is fed in with the stalks at right angles to the knives as far as possible to achieve optimum chopping quality.
Thanks to the excellent chopping quality of PÖTTINGER loader wagons, the forage can be easily distributed and compacted in the clamp. It is also easier to mix in the feed mixer. The shorter the theoretical chopped length, the lower the risk of longer particles being left by the animals. That is how you minimise forage losses and maximise your success.
The JUMBO is available with a chopping length of 25 mm. The smaller models achieve 34-45 mm in silage mode. All the knives are individually protected against foreign objects. This protects the health of your animals.
So you can harvest the best quality forage on your land for many years to come, it is particularly important to protect the sward. This means preventing harmful compaction. That is why all PÖTTINGER loader wagons are available with large volume tyres. In addition, steered axles can be specified to prevent damage to the sward when cornering. Tearing out the sward not only reduces the subsequent yield, because there is also a risk of the roots covered with soil getting into the forage and significantly reducing forage quality.
That is yet another advantage of the loader wagon process, because only one vehicle is on the move in the field to collect the forage. It minimises the total surface area that is driven over.
"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."
Jeff Reiff, Troisvierges | Luxembourg