WEST BEND, Wl.—“ln order
to maintain a nice, thick crop mat
and a uniform cut in third and
fourth alfalfa cuttings, you used to
have to increase your ground
speed,” says Paul Reilly, Gehl
Project Engineer.
“During the later cuttings, the
crop mat is smaller with each suc
cessive cut. Increasing travel
speed-not only uses more fuel and
horsepower, but it also increases
wear and tear oh the tractor, for-,
age harvester, forage box, running
gear, and operator,” ■
Reilly states that during the first
cutting, fanners usually travel at a
moderate speed of 3 to 5 mph. By
the third or fourth cutting, some
people accelerate to 8 to 10 mph
just to keep enough material flow
ing into the harvester.
“For each mile an hour that you
increase ground speed, you take
horsepower away from your
harvester,” says Reilly. “With the
windrow merger, the tractor
horsepower can be used to chop
rather than running up and down
the field.”
Because the forage harvester
picks up a thicker crop mat with
the windrow merger, you’ll also
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get a more uniform cut. That
increases your cutting capacity,
and your knives and cutterbar
work more efficiently, too. Even
though they’re cutting the same
amount of crop, it takes just half
the actual number of cutting repe
titions to finish the job.
The hydraulically driven wind
row merger mounts on the front of
your tractor. As you pass through
the field, the unit picks up one
windrow, and moves it over to the
next windrow on a cross convey
er. The result is a single, thick,
double windrow. With the wind
row merger it takes half as many
passes through the field, which
reduces your fuel consumption,
harvesting time, and helps pre
serve the crop’s nutrient value.
“We came up with a standard
list of kits for most of the major
tractor manufacturers, and the
others we handle on-demand,”
says Reilly. “We recommend
mounting the windrow merger on
tractors over 100-horsepower,
simply for the chopping capacity.”
“After I saw it at Farm Progress
Days I was so intrigued I had to
find one to test as soon as I got
And like all successful advances in
technology. Scavenger invited a slew of
competitiors. Today, a wide variety of
farm equipment manufacturers sell a
Scavenger-like machine.
Unmatched performance.
While some of these look-alike units
are perfectly adequate for certain
manure-spreading application, none
can match Scavenger’s overall
versatility. Scavenger spreads all
kinds of manure-liquid, semi-solid,
pen pack (even frozen)—all year
’round. In even spread patterns up to
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How it works
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moves It over to the next windrow on a cross conveyor as the tractor passes through
the field.
home,” says Dan Natzke, a dairy
farmer from Greenleaf, Wise.
“When we came back we tried
to rent one. We ended up buying
one instead. We’ve used it for one
crop so far, and loved it. We’re
going to be able to make better
quality hay, and fine-tune our hay
making operation.
So when you find it’s time to
purchase a new spreader, take a hard
look at your choices. Don’t be misled
by spreaders that claun to do it all.
Compare actual capabilities. We think
you’ll find your choice obvious. You’ll
choose the spreader with unmatched
performance—Scavenger.
See for yourself.
For a firsthand look at Scavenger, see
your local Hedlund/Martin dealer.
Or write: Hedlund/Martin, Inc.,
A Gehl Company, 741 Kutztown
Road, Myerstown, PA 17067.
Telephone: 717-933-4151.
“It’s hard to put an actual dollar
value on the importance of quality
hay. You do anything you can to
get the crop in on time, and that’s
where Gehl’s windrow merger fits
in”
Jay Fitzgerald, a dairy farmer
from Newton, Wise., realized a
substantial savings in time and
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“I recorded the time I spent
harvesting,” says Fitzgerald.
“Using the windrow merger, we
harvested about 8 acres of alfalfa
in an hour. We cut our harvesting
time by up to 40 percent.
“We noticed a big drop in fuel
consumption, too. I estimate we
cut fuel consumption by at least 33
percent compared to the year
before. We had plenty of power to
operate the forage harvester at full
capacity, and we weren’t over
working the tractor.”
“I would highly recommend the
machine to others,” says Natzke.
“Fuel and lime savings are obvi
ous. And if you can operate your
machine more efficiently and
harvest your crop in half the num
ber of passes, you’re saving more
than money. You’re reducing soil
compaction, too. Those are the
things we have to look at in order
to be efficient.”
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