You need equipment that improves your productivity to help you make hay when conditions are right and preserve valuable nutrients. You need a mower that cuts fast, close and clean and provides uniform conditioning. You also need innovative and durable solutions that protect your investment and give you more uptime. That’s exactly what a Discbine® PLUS offers. It’s built on a legacy of durability and innovation to deliver the dependability and productivity that only a genuine Discbine® can provide. More than just bold styling, it’ll be an added PLUS for your haymaking operation, with features including cutterbar upgrades for the cleanest cut yet and improved swath control for even faster dry down. A disc mower-conditioner isn’t a genuine Discbine® unless it’s built and backed by the best in the business: New Holland.
Haymaking season is no time for delays. That’s why we pioneered our true modular disc cutterbar decades ago. From this original design through today, the legendary New Holland disc cutterbar has been known for strength, reliability, and easy service. The latest design, the ultra-reliable MowMax™ II PLUS disc cutterbar, is no exception. Its commercial-grade durability and high-capacity, clean-cutting design will save you time and money.
To adapt to crop types, changing conditions, and seasonality, you need an adaptable conditioning system that’s sized appropriately to the cutterbar. WideDry conditioning systems deliver. Unlike competitive machines with narrow conditioning systems and multiple pairs of co-rotating discs, WideDry means you get smooth crop flow from the cutterbar to the appropriately-sized conditioning system of your choice. Whether you choose the chevron intermeshing rubber or steel rolls, or the LeaningEdge™ flail tine conditioning system, you’ll find infinite adjustments and impressive uniformity that lead to faster dry down.
Grass hay producers know that crushing and crimping fine-stem grass, like coastal grass, can be a real challenge. To promote fast drying, the LeaningEdge™ flail tine conditioning system pushes crop against an adjustable hood to scuff wax away. Crop receives even more scuffing action as the 20-degree tangent flail tines are angled rearward, creating more outward crop pressure against the hood.
Fast drying requires crop to be evenly distributed over a wide swath. To help, the Discbine® PLUS Series provides enhanced swath control surfaces behind the conditioning system.
The Discbine® PLUS header is suspended independently from the trail frame, letting it closely follow changing ground contours and reduce stubble damage and skid-shoe wear. Trail frame wheels are located on the inside of the frame, allowing for better contour following on uneven terrain. Use the adjustable header flotation springs to reduce cutterbar ground pressure, ensuring the head tracks the ground precisely so you harvest all your valuable crop.
Innovative header suspension geometry results in responsive flotation. When operated in float, the tilt cylinder can automatically retract to adapt to contours, while the innovative header linkage allows the header to move up and rearward to dissipate force if you encounter an obstacle. To provide for free flotation of the head, the flotation springs are anchored to the trail frame with a ball joint to reduce binding as the header moves through its full flotation range.
For ultimate maneuverability, especially on headlands, the Discbine® PLUS Series is equipped with either a drawbar swivel or two-point attachment swivel-style hitch. Compared to traditional hitches that pivot on the drawbar, the pivoting action of a swivel hitch is moved rearward, behind the PTO, at the swivel gearbox. No matter how sharp you turn, the PTO remains straight, virtually eliminating PTO wear and the risk of the PTO and tractor lift arm colliding.
All Discbine® PLUS models feature a swivel-style hitch, heavy-duty gearboxes for power transfer, and well-protected drivelines with turn bumpers to simplify maintenance and unclutter the top of the header. Power is transferred from the front swivel gearbox to a second swivel gearbox at the rear of the tongue, so the drivelines never swing and maintain perfect alignment. Only the driveline extending from the second swivel box to the header drive bevel gearbox extends and retracts as the header raises and lowers. All models are fitted with a combination slip and overrunning clutch behind the main swivel gearbox to protect both the mower and your tractor. U-joints are easily accessible for servicing, and the lube interval is 50 hours for maximum uptime.
The center-pivot design, transport lights, and safety locks on the wheel cylinders let you travel to and from the field with confidence. A one-quarter turn valve on the hose end and a Pilot Operated (PO) check valve on the cylinder prevents tongue swing in transport.