Mill on the cutter arm for Rover and Formula series

New accessory

After prolonged tests carried out in the field under different operating conditions and with the collaboration of particularly professional customers, to whom we are very grateful, we enrich the possibility of customizing our top-of-the-range self-propelled vehicles (Rover Up, Rover Jumbo Up, Formula, Formula Jumbo ) adding on request the mill mounted on the cutter arm.

What is it for?

Our carriages are already produced in series to cut the fiber efficiently and quickly, but in some particular conditions the use of a mill equipped with adjustable knives and counter-knives, placed immediately after the cutter roller, increases the possibilities of managing the fiber. long.
This accessory is particularly suitable for customers who want a shorter fiber size (2 / 3cm on average), who need to process small quantities of fiber in large-volume machines, which use particularly hard and elastic wrapped hay, or other needs that require particularly energetic mincing of the food ration.

The advantages of the mill on the cutter arm

The great advantage of a self-propelled vertical mixing wagon with silage cutter equipped with a mill is that the operator can take advantage of the entire range of use of the machine: depending on the needs, in fact, he can load the components of the ration using the cutter without a mill, milling machine or by loading the machine directly with the body.
The advantages are evident both in operational terms (not all components must necessarily pass through the cutter), and in practical terms (in case of failure of the cutter or mill it will still be possible to feed the herd as the wagon is equipped with a series of knives and counter knives and can work safely as a standard machine).

Technical aspects of the mill on the cutter arm

Technically we did not want to penalize in any way the operating capacity of the cutter, which is one of the strengths of our self-propelled machines, so the mill was designed and built to be applied on our 700mm wide cutter channel.
It is also equipped with an independent hydraulic circuit consisting of a variable displacement piston pump and gentle high-pressure piston motor from Linde (Many competitors use the same pump as the cutter to also drive the mill, Italmix instead uses two: one for the cutter and one for the mill).

In the tests carried out we found, together with the customers, that some extra adjustments of the mill may be needed depending on the consistency of the material to be loaded: it can therefore be equipped with a rotor with knives positioned in a row on 6 rows or with a spiral rotor, you can choose to add the hydraulic adjustment of the contrast counter-knives instead of pitch and the double speed of rotation of the rotor.