At the PotatoEurope 2010 event, currently in its second day at Rittergut Bockerode in Germany, Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik, manufacturer of agricultural machinery such as potato planters and harvesters, show the visitors a lot of new equipment.
Here is an overview of what Grimme shows at the Potato Europe event:
Potato Planting technology:
- The first official launch of the new 8-row folding planter with permission for road transport the GL 840 Compacta with a 4-ton bunker. The GL 840 Compacta combines the advantages of an agile and compact 4-row planter with the output of an 8-row planter.
- Demonstrating the new 4-row three-point linkage carried potato planter GL 420. This machine is equipped with new covering discs to ensure optimum ridge shaping. The new design of the furrow openers in combination with the shaping board ensures a constant planting depth with changing ground conditions and the reducing bunker weight. It is possible to combine the GL 420 with the Grimme Rotary Tilla RT 300 or a Lemken power harrow.
Harvesting Technology:
- Grimme presents the new 4-row self-propelled potato harvester TECTRON 410 with 10-tonne bunker, developed for high trash and haulm separation and where high yielding crops are to be harvested
- The 2-row trailed harvester SE 150-60 with 5.8-tonne overloading bunker in conjunction with the new XXL-separator giving higher output
Handling Equipment:
- Premiere of the new Grimme high capacity receiving hopper out of the TH-series which is directly connected to the receiving hopper of the RH-series. For unloading the trailer to reduce the down times so the transport chain runs quicker.
- Grimme is also demonstrating the new Store Loader SL 80-22 Quantum, 22 m long is one of the most efficient machines in its class. The unique Quantum-system ensures a better crop visibility flow at the intake area and gives a gentle crop transfer as compared with traditional situations.
Transport Technology:
- Grimme launches the six-wheeled Grimme Multitrailer 350 with a 35 m³ loading capacity. Fitted with wide tyres for reduced ground pressure ensures the most gentle intake, transport and transfer of the crop.
- The Multitrailer 190 with a 19 m³ loading capacity comes with a tandem axle and a hydraulically operated side wall to lower the height at the side. As an option is a high capacity unloading elevator giving gentle unloading of the Multitrailer at the side of the field onto a lorry. The emptying time of the harvester bunker is up to 30% more by filling directly into the Multitrailer.
