Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
From my experience, Verticals are higher. This may or may not be suitable for your situation. If you are using it to chop hay/haylage it takes more power and the uneven rotation as the bale gets to the narrower sides of the machine makes it work hard so the tractor can really open up the gouverner then back off. We used a Scariboldi/Lely horizontal and the only issues we had was scales and elevator bearings. Both issues were caused by dragging it through deep mud. Ours was a heavier machine so needed a heavy tractor on the front. The vertical we demoed used more hp to mix so needed more hp and used more fuel. The guy I help sometimes has a vertical and has had the same issues. The horizontal was lower to load and only had one large reduction gearbox. There are many different verticals and horizontals and it is very hard to be general I think. |
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