GRIMME presents the EVO 280, a 2-row potato bunker-harvester with its new MultiCrop intake. Improved accessibility, convenience and user-friendliness continue to be the focus, in addition to maximum separation and throughput performance.
An interchangeable system is now available for both the pick-up and the separator, enabling rapid adaptation to different crops and harvesting conditions. Thanks to a standardised interface for electrics and oil supply, the newly developed, parallel-guided “MultiCrop-Intake” enables different harvesting intakes to be changed in a record time of less than five minutes. Each of the available intake versions can be coupled with the swing frame across all machines, taking the channel width into account. Locking between the components of the machine and the intake-frame is convenient and tool-free from one side of the machine. At the touch of a button, the user interface of the GRIMME Digital Interface (GDI) also adapts to the intake being used.
The specific crop intakes can be configured separately from the machine. All known intake variants are available, including further options for harvesting various crops out of ridges, beds or windrowed crops. With ShareProtect, the intake now also has a three-stage overload protection system: One overload protection device on the share blades, another one on the brackets for each share and a final one for the entire share frame.
The force is generally applied closer to the main frame, which increases the stability of the entire machine, especially at high harvesting speeds and in difficult harvesting conditions. In addition to the standard V2A sheets in the swing frame, two different channel widths of 1500 mm and 1700 mm are still available. For harvesting spraying tracks the digging depths can be specified for each of the two ridges so that the crop flow is better distributed on the main webs – even with only one row to be harvested. The disc coulters have been designed with a larger diameter, which results in an even better cutting and rolling effect. Each disc coulter is mounted on a single bracket and can be individually adjusted in height and distance to the main web and share. If required, an additional disc coulter can be fitted on the left and/or right.
Change between EasySep and ClodSep
In order to be able to use the EVO 280 flexibly in various crops and under different conditions, the third separator can be replaced using an optional exchangeable frame. The changeover from finger web (‘ClodSep’) to deflection rollers (‘EasySep’) and vice versa can be completed by two people in around 30 minutes with the help of a farm machine (e.g. telescopic loader). In addition to the separator, the software is also changed at the touch of a button so that the correct user interface is always available for the specific separator.
Speedtronic-Cruise controls tractor
For tractors which are prepared for Tractor Implement Management (TIM), GRIMME offers the Speedtronic-Cruise option. The machine uses various parameters to adjust the driving speed of the tractor in order to achieve the optimum balance between throughput and crop protection at all times. The operator is significantly relieved and the machine is consistently driven with the same work result.
For improved comfort of the picking staff, the platform on the right-hand side of the machine can be extended as standard. Customers can also choose between the short, wide or the long, narrow trash conveyor, which allows two people to pick final clods and/or stones. An optional available pre-cleaning roller system is used to sort out triples and clods into a separate container or stone bunker and also reduces the workload of the picking staff.
The EVO 280 with MultiCrop intake will be available in limited numbers in 2025.
