Farm Machinery Journal - G-1F125 Kombi

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Left: A monitor and two cameras are standard on the Göweil baler Right: The Göweil features plastic bands and six rows of tines, so should give a clean and quiet sweep Left: The G-1 is ISObus controlled and a stand-alone screen is available if your tractor is not compatible Right: Two crop press rollers and a hydraulically driven feed roller give a good feed with little room for bridging The knives are below the binding system and can be changed without tools or opening the chamber, or crawling around underneath. The knives are reversible and give a 35mm theoretical chop length. Richard gives those on his baler a touch-up every 1000 bales so they don’t dull easily. The crop flow would see the knives working in the top of the swath, as it’s lifted by the pick-up rather than the bottom, so soil or stone contamination may play a factor in how long the edge lasts. Before the rotor is the 2.2m header, which looks well engineered and has a pendulum action to follow the ground. This allows each wheel to lift by 150mm without causing the opposite wheel to lift off. The jockey wheel arms wouldn’t look out of place on a plough. The roller crop press is equally well built with sealed bearings at either end of the double roller press. Behind that is a hydraulically driven feed roller and short augers to push crop in from the sides of the header. It’s all tightly arranged and Richard says the feed is good even in shorter crops, as there is little space for bridging. Above inset: Owner-operator Richard Lennie quickly dismissed more established brands in favour of another Göweil The pick-up is an area where Richard has seen great improvement. “With our old baler we did some work with Göweil on the tines. We did have some trouble with breaking tines and experimented with different angles, but we have only broken a handful on the new machine,” he says. Also Göweil adopted a plastic tine band that has worked very well. “We do have some meadowland that has some sharp undulations, and if you’re not careful it can cause the pick-up to bottom out. This would bend steel bands but the plastics just “It’ll make a good bale in pretty much any crop” WWW.FARMMACHINERYJOURNAL.CO.UK APRIL 2022
Front Link First Impression // Göweil G-1 F125 <strong>Kombi</strong> pop back. It’s also much quieter and easier if you need to replace a tine, as they flex out of the way easily.” Inside the 18-roller chamber is a starter roller and above it a cleaner roller with a scraper. Richard doesn’t report any slippage in straw so the cleaner roller surface must keep it moving, the only drawback being that when working in straw the baler will roll the bale for a number of revolutions when the net is cut. “It’s not long, but all day it adds up,” Richard explains. “We’re hoping they can change the preset as it seems too long to me, but it’s only a minor thing really. Above and above right: The wrapping element is well proven, available as a frame for other balers as well as being part of development for another manufacturer Left: The Göweil can be fitted with any hitch. Adjustment for setting the drawbar to get the baler level is straightforward Above: Reloading the wrapper is a convenient job, done without lifting anything much above waist height Above centre: The chamber has a starter roller behind the rotor to get the bale turning and cleaner roller above to keep debris from clogging the other rollers “Bale density is good,” he continues. “It’ll make a good bale in pretty much any crop. We’ve made some plastic on plastic-bound bales for customers who wanted to see what they were like and the feedback has been very good.” Richard’s own bales have been very good, which has given him and Ian the confidence to recommend plastic binding to customers. Pay attention One of the few niggles Richard has found with the G-1 has been using plastic to bind the bale in dry crop. “You just have to pay attention when the film goes in,” he says. “Every now and then it won’t catch the bale and you end up not tying, which means digging the bale out if you miss it,” he continues, explaining that you can see the plastic going into the chamber on the camera and if the auto-tie misses and you spot it you can manually re-tie the bale. But, he adds, you have to be quick as the binding gets wrapped on a chamber roller. It’s not a common occurrence but in very dry grass it can happen. The wrapping element is well polished, Göweil having developed bale transfer and wrapping units for their own frame that houses other manufacturers’ balers. They have also developed the system used by another major manufacturer who offers a combi baler in this format. APRIL 2022 WWW.FARMMACHINERYJOURNAL.CO.UK
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