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Published on 20 August 2020 · 2 min read
PÖTTINGER expands its range of agricultural tedders with the HIT 16.18 T
InfoWeb Marketplace · Editorial teamPublished on 20 August 2020 · 2 min read
PÖTTINGER, the specialist in harvesting equipment, is expanding its range of tedders with a new machine of unprecedented width. The new HIT 16.18 T tedder, equipped with 16 rotors and offering a working width of 17 m, impresses with its maximum performance, without compromising on work quality or perfect adaptation to uneven ground.
Farms are growing, weather windows are shrinking and the demands on forage quality are high. To meet these challenges, PÖTTINGER has developed a wide trailed tedder. The HIT 16.18 T tedder offers high work output, the best ground adaptation, great ease of use and perfect tedding quality. The DYNATECH rotors, the heart of the HIT tedders, are always at the cutting edge. The front guards reinforce the stability of the whole machine.
The rotor diameter is ideal at only 1,42 m. The six curved tine arms pick up the forage cleanly and tedding is perfectly even thanks to the possibility of adjusting the rotor tilt without tools. The trailing tine guidance protects the forage, which is handled more gently. The tines with different lengths of strands pick up the forage evenly and contribute greatly to the best tedding quality.
The two large wheels of the transport chassis are positioned very close in front of the tines and also serve as gauge wheels. With these wheels, the HIT tedder is always perfectly guided over uneven terrain. For perfect ground tracking, each frame element adapts to the terrain independently of the others. In this way, each rotor follows the ground contour as closely as possible and ensures clean forage.
The new HIT 16.18 T tedder also features the one-of-a-kind LIFTMATIC PLUS lifting system, for raising the rotors into headland position. Thanks to the double-barrel cylinder and the joint fitted with a slotted hole, the rotors first pivot into a horizontal position before being lifted. This intelligent lifting guidance prevents the tines from digging into the soil and scraping the ground. As a result, forage contamination is significantly reduced and work quality is better. Furthermore, thanks to the LIFTMATIC PLUS system, there is less stress on the tines, which increases their service life and the performance of the machine.
Headland lifting offers a very large ground clearance of 90 cm, which makes the tedders much more manoeuvrable. This feature is not only an advantage in terms of operating and driving comfort, but also allows more flexibility of the tedder in the field, for example when crossing ditches or obstacles encountered in the plot.
For border tedding, the two outer right-hand rotors are hydraulically pivoted backwards by 15° (optional). These two rearward-pivoted rotors spread the forage evenly, unlike solutions using a deflector that forms a windrow. At the field boundary, this principle leaves a strip free of forage. The rotors are controlled hydraulically from the tractor seat via a double-acting valve. With the new HIT 16.18 T, PÖTTINGER offers a tedder in a class of its own, guaranteeing the best harvesting performance by combining high work output, forage quality and protection of the sward, to meet the high demands of farmers, contractors (ETA) and CUMA cooperatives.
The best tedding quality with high work output
Farms are growing, weather windows are shrinking and the demands on forage quality are high. To meet these challenges, PÖTTINGER has developed a wide trailed tedder. The HIT 16.18 T tedder offers high work output, the best ground adaptation, great ease of use and perfect tedding quality. The DYNATECH rotors, the heart of the HIT tedders, are always at the cutting edge. The front guards reinforce the stability of the whole machine.
The rotor diameter is ideal at only 1,42 m. The six curved tine arms pick up the forage cleanly and tedding is perfectly even thanks to the possibility of adjusting the rotor tilt without tools. The trailing tine guidance protects the forage, which is handled more gently. The tines with different lengths of strands pick up the forage evenly and contribute greatly to the best tedding quality.
HIT 16.18 T PÖTTINGER, perfect ground adaptation even with large working widths
The two large wheels of the transport chassis are positioned very close in front of the tines and also serve as gauge wheels. With these wheels, the HIT tedder is always perfectly guided over uneven terrain. For perfect ground tracking, each frame element adapts to the terrain independently of the others. In this way, each rotor follows the ground contour as closely as possible and ensures clean forage.
LIFTMATIC PLUS, the high-tech lifting system
The new HIT 16.18 T tedder also features the one-of-a-kind LIFTMATIC PLUS lifting system, for raising the rotors into headland position. Thanks to the double-barrel cylinder and the joint fitted with a slotted hole, the rotors first pivot into a horizontal position before being lifted. This intelligent lifting guidance prevents the tines from digging into the soil and scraping the ground. As a result, forage contamination is significantly reduced and work quality is better. Furthermore, thanks to the LIFTMATIC PLUS system, there is less stress on the tines, which increases their service life and the performance of the machine.
Headland lifting offers a very large ground clearance of 90 cm, which makes the tedders much more manoeuvrable. This feature is not only an advantage in terms of operating and driving comfort, but also allows more flexibility of the tedder in the field, for example when crossing ditches or obstacles encountered in the plot.
The PÖTTINGER HIT tedder pushes the limits
For border tedding, the two outer right-hand rotors are hydraulically pivoted backwards by 15° (optional). These two rearward-pivoted rotors spread the forage evenly, unlike solutions using a deflector that forms a windrow. At the field boundary, this principle leaves a strip free of forage. The rotors are controlled hydraulically from the tractor seat via a double-acting valve. With the new HIT 16.18 T, PÖTTINGER offers a tedder in a class of its own, guaranteeing the best harvesting performance by combining high work output, forage quality and protection of the sward, to meet the high demands of farmers, contractors (ETA) and CUMA cooperatives.
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