| Grassland
Case IH to show upgraded balers and new record-
breaking Maxxum tractor at Grassland UK
Case IH’s latest equipment for forage production will feature at Grassland UK, adjoining the Bath and West
Showground, Somerset, on 10 May.
s well as newly
upgraded balers,
Case IH will be
showing the
‘Machine Of The
Year 2018’, the
Maxxum Multicontroller tractor with
ActiveDrive 8 transmission, as well
as the higher-powered Puma
tractor and the compact Luxxum.
Three newly-upgraded balers
will be shown on the stand. The
four-wheeled RB 545 Silage Pack
fixed chamber round baler now
includes improved front hood
access when changing net and
film, stronger rotor cutter knives, a
configurable blank knife option, an
improved bale quarter turn option
and longer wrapper table belts.
The RB 455 variable chamber
round baler also benefits from a
2018 upgrade. This includes a
dual density option, while a new
rotor design on Rotor Cutter
models improves durability, with
tine thickness increased from 6mm
to 8mm and inter-tine spacing up
from 8mm to 10mm. A new net
wrapper design features a new net
knife to improve cut quality. Bale
sha