"Silage Processor" Kit For New Holland Harvesters

"Silage Processor" Kit For New Holland Harvesters FORAGE HARVESTERS Forage Harvesters (31F) 23-5-20 Conversion kits for pull-type forage harvesters have been on the market for a few years. The kits let you roll corn kernels while making silage. Now a Pennsylvania company has come out with a new silage processor for self-propelled models. "It will process everything that a 6-row head can feed into it, with no loss of horsepower," says Georgetown Mfg., Christiana, Pa. The company previously made conversion kits for New Holland pull-type forage harvesters (Vol. 22, No. 5). The kit consists of two 28-in. long adjustable, hardened steel rollers with 1/4-in. machined grooves that install under the cab and just above the cutterhead. The rollers turn at different speeds to provide a shearing action that results in better breakage of kernels. The unit is powered by a big hydraulic pump mounted inside the machine. A stainless steel pan replaces the original screen and directs the chopped silage up between the rollers where it's sheared to final length. It's then directed into the blower with another stainless steel pan. When you're harvesting haylage you simply remove the first pan so that the haylage bypasses the rollers altogether. "Processed silage is more digestible with less waste, which results in more milk. The rollers can be adjusted to vary the crimp spacing. While the primary drive is hydraulic, a set of heavy duty belts reduces the rpm's of the secondary roll by 20 percent, creating a shearing action that results in silage processed with great efficiency," says the company. The unit fits only New Holland self-propelled forage harvesters. Sells for about $18,000 plus S&H. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Israel Beiler, Georgetown Mfg. LLC, 343 Christiana Pike, Christiana, Pa. 17509 (ph 610 593-2753).

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