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HAWE press release Silage Field Transfer Trailer February 2009
New Field Transfer Trailer for Silage
The distances to be covered in the silage harvesting chain become ever greater. This has
encouraged HAWE-Wester, the trailer specialist from Emsland in Germany and already
renowned manufacturer of Field Transfer Trailers for grain and sugar beet, to now introduce
an interesting similar concept for the forage harvest.
Protecting soil structure on arable and pasture land
Large silage harvesters with 1000 HP and high chopping performance require the
appropriate scale of transport back-up. Big biogas plants or dairy farms need huge amounts
of forage and high harvesting performance so that the green feed is ensiled as quickly as
possible. Continually increasing numbers of silage trailers with low ground pressure tyres to
meet this demand increase transport cost input and therefore cannot be the right way to
achieve cost-optimised forage harvesting.
For this reason, HAWE-Wester, the specialist for modern transport solutions has developed
the new Silage Field Transfer Trailer and presented it at the DeLuTa exhibition in Münster
(Dec. 2008). This concept could in future involve two of the new Field Transfer Trailers being
loaded by silage harvester and bringing the chopped material rapidly and cleanly to the
headland for transferring onto road-suitable fast tractor-trailer rigs or trucks. Load
transference rate can be 10 cubic meters per minute via blower fan fitted in front of the trailer
bodywork directly driven by the tractor without intermediate gearing.
Blowing 10 cubic meters per minute
A further advantage is the excellent visibility for the Silage Field Transfer Trailer driver.
Reverse manoeuvring as with other systems is not required and this saves a lot of time. The
Field Transfer Trailer can blow the forage to a height of 4.50 m into the transport vehicle or

the digester container of a biogas plant. Additionally, the new trailer has proved itself as not
susceptible to rolling over during testing under commercial farming conditions, the design
being based on the renowned HAWE Silage Trailer with load volumes of up to 60 cubic
meters. For biogas plant managers the new HAWE Silage Field Transfer Trailer offers the
possibility of filling the digester container every day, with transport of fermenting material
from greater distances than before. To make it more efficient under these conditions the new
Silage Field Transfer Trailer features a robust timber bodywork that has performed well even
with corrosive silage and displayed a much better resistance to damage than the more usual
coated steel profile panels, which continue to give good service on standard silage trailers.
With large-scale biogas plants, or in groups of several 500 kW units, the Silage Field
Transfer Trailer offers a higher performance compared with telescopic loaders, even where
the silage clamps are in the vicinity of the digester containers.
Experience and reliability
Customers can select from a large range of extra equipment for the new HAWE Silage Field
Transfer Trailers with tandem or tridem running gear. These accessories have already been
tried and tested on other trailers and their robustness under working conditions well proven.
Mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic suspension, a variety of tyre types and the solid BPW
axles are all available. Hydraulic drawbar suspension is incorporated as standard equipment
and customers can choose the hitch system most suitable for their own situation. The drives
are simple, robust and, above all, low-maintenance and overall wear and tear resistance is
also a feature of the trailer.
Logistics for professionals
The new Silage Field Transfer Trailer from HAWE offers completely new opportunities in the
modern and future-oriented silage harvesting chain and in the daily “feeding” of biogas
plants. During the harvest season the system offers savings in silage trailers and enables
rapid and clean transference onto trucks that can cover the ever-greater distances from field
to ensiling point faster and above all more cost-efficiently. And under wet silage harvesting
conditions the low ground pressure tyres leave a minimum of tracks and soil compaction.
Over and above this, the concept offers the bioenergy farmer completely new opportunities
for bringing silage into the biogas plants from much further afield than was possible before -
and of feeding it into the digester container directly with the high performance blower.
With the new Silage Field Transfer Trailer from HAWE farmers, bioenergy producers,
machine rings and contractors all have the chance of a future oriented, cost-effective concept
which is new but despite this has already proved its practicality and working dependability
through tried and tested components from other trailers that are now built into the concept –
a concept that opens up new possibilities for saving labour and costs and at the same time
increasing performance.
HAWE-Wester GmbH & Co. KG Maschinenbau
Zum Turm 16, 26892 Wippingen
Tel.: 04966 / 91880, Fax 04966 / 1211
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The new HAWE Silage Field Transfer Trailer is exceptionally suitable for daily filling of biogas
plants. In silage harvesting it also offers an important new link in the transport chain with the
ability to transfer 10 cubic meters of maize silage per minute.
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