Grimme has launched a new lightweight trailed two-row potato and vegetable windrower for UK root crop growers that has been designed to work efficiently on the flat and on slopes.
The WR200 is a well-built, but basic, machine with a straight-through main web that then links to a variety of options including second web or separator, cross conveyor and/or fine haulm elevator. The versatility of the machine allows the crop to either be set to one side of the windrower or a single harvester then lifts the two windrowed rows with the two normal rows. Crops left behind the windrower (such as onions/bulbs) can be lifted with a harvester fitted with a full width share assembly.
According to Grimme’s Ralph Powell, the WR200 is designed with robust and low maintenance digging technology and offers a cost-effective higher output two-row harvesting system without the need for a bunker or trailers running alongside the harvester when opening up fields.
“Minimising drop heights and fewer working parts significantly reduces the chances of damaging the crop, unlike so many other windrowing systems on the market that inevitably cause excess bruising and scuffing,” he said.
Rear-wheel steering on theWR200 improves manoeuvrability, especially on the headlands, in small fields and on slopes. Levelling rams on each side of the machine and the pivot point on the front that helps it follow the ground contours keeps the digging web level. The fact that the WR200 is light machine also means that smaller tractors of 70hp-plus can easily pull it.
For more information visit: www.grimmeuk.com.
