Wi | mponce - 7/11/2014 14:56 The dairy I work for has two New Holland sp cutters (hw 340 and hw 345). They are looking at going to 1 machine so they demoed a Pottinger triple mower. They have an Oxbo 1416 merger as well but they couldn't use it on what the triple cutter did. They had someone with a continuous merger come in and do it. How do you intend to keep using your 1416 merger with a triple cutter? To my understanding if they got any sort of triple cutter they would need to get a new merger. I'm just a little confused I guess.
Reading through the original post again, you are correct that it doesn't sound clear if they plan to upgrade the merger or not. That is a cost that needs to be considered as a continuous merger will be needed for any of the triple mower setups. The Oxbo's are popular and have been around for awhile, the H&S Tri-Flex is getting popular in this area as well. Kuhn and ROC are scattered also. Oxbo 330 and 334 new will be 110-130k ish (haven't priced one lately.) Used it looks like you are still looking at 90k+ unless you got an older style Avalanche 310. If you have a lot of room, and very flat level fields with a tight budget you could get an older H&S continuous box. |
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