Two new additions to the Claas green harvest range are the Volto tedder and Liner rake. These machines will be making their way to customers for this year’s grass silage harvest.

Volto 1300T tedder

Following the introduction of the max spread crop flow concept on the Volto 1100, 900, 800 and 700 models, a new 13-metre version has now been added. The Volto 1300T is a 10-rotor trailed machine and the widest tedder in the current Claas range.

Each of the rotors is 1.5m wide and fitted with seven spreader arms with heavy-duty 10.5mm sprung steel tines. Instead of the spreading arms being straight, the spreader arms are angled at 29° to improve crop flow through the tedder. Claas claims that as a result of this design, the spreading arms work for 65% longer and the increase in pick-up rate results in higher working speeds.

Compared with conventional straight spreading arms, the crop flow between the rotors has more space, according to Claas. This reduces the load on the driveline, reduces the bending forces on the tines and is gentler on the crop. Claas claims that larger volumes of crop can pass through as a result of the linear flow through the tedding rotors, thus increasing throughput and allowing a wider and more even spread pattern.

In addition to the support wheels on each rotor, the Volto 1300T is fitted as standard with double castor wheels on the drawbar.

Compact Liner 3600

Claas has introduced a new rake, the Liner 3600, on which the working width can be adjusted from 9.9m up to 12.5m, which is designed to be compact for transport on the road.

The Liner 3600 succeeds the Liner 3500 and uses similar components from the rest of the Liner range, including the continuously lubricated and hermetically sealed cam track.

Each of the tine arms has four dual tines, which are secured using the Profix quick-change system.

Each rotor is equipped with a large four-wheel chassis for accurate ground following and to avoid crop contamination.

In addition, the contour wheels are positioned extremely close to the tines so that the rotor can accurately follow ground contours.

The Liner 3600 is controlled using the new operator control terminal – the Communicator II.

According to Class, using the terminal, the delay between the front and rear rotors lifting or lowering can be easily set.

Between fields, the new running gear on the Liner 3600 is designed so that transport height remains below 4m high, allowing it to be transported on the road without having to remove any tine arms.

The new running gear also makes it possible to fit large-volume, ground-protecting 620/40 R22.5 tyres and still keep the machine within 3m wide for transport.