The rain just cannot hold off long enough for us to run some demos! We were up in New Hamburg, ON last week, but the rain made it impossible to work the machines. To still make the best of our week in Canada, we visited some large farms to see what their equipment needs were. First, we visited a custom harvester who is looking for a reliable self propelled forage harvester that stays in the field for the whole season. He explained that he cannot stop in the middle of the season to fix wear parts. Also, we saw one of the best farms in western Ontario. They make it on the front page of farm magazines on a regular basis. They are interested to see a BiG M 400 because they want to be able to cut faster to get the crop out of the field quicker, since they have so much rain there during the harvest season. If they ran a BiG M 400 they would be able to replace their two windrowers with one BiG M and free up one of the two operators. They also want to see the BiG X in action. They like the way the BiG X is built heavy, how it has six pre-compression rollers, the durable kernel processor, and the way the Krone EasyCollect corn head works. These customers were very excited about the Krone machines and requested a demo with Stratford Farm Equipment when the rain finally quits. We also went and visited a customer who recently bought a BiG X 500 to do custom work with. (He also has a Krone triple mower.) He likes the heavy built machine, the easy maintenance, the cam-less EasyFlow hay head, and the central lubrication system. He is looking forward to corn season so he can see it work with the EasyCollect corn head.
This week we are back in Vermont since we had to skip that stop earlier in the demo schedule due to rain. We demoed a BiG X 650 with the EasyFlow 3801 hay head. We had a group of customers come to one farm to demo the machine. The windrows that we chopped where really heavy with water, due to the rain. The BiG X picked them up perfectly and did not get plugged once and the cut quality was excellent. We had one person at the demo that operated the machine in corn last year and he came out to see the heavy built, cam-less EasyFlow hay head work. They all liked the speed adjustment for the head because “there is no need to have the head run faster than necessary,” they explained. Many of the customers that came out to see the BiG X in the field got in the operator’s seat. They all liked the power of the machine. It has enough power and torque to go through the uneven windrows without plugging up or slowing down too much. They all were pretty impressed that we did not leave bigger footprints with our machine. The tractors with dual wheels where causing more damage to the field than the BiG X. You could barely tell where the BiG X was in the field due to the big tires on it. That was a huge plus for our machines.
Here are some pictures from the latest demos:
There are more demos to come next week so make sure to check back for my next blog post!
-Matrin-
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