The Farmers Mart Apr-May 2020 - Issue 68 | Page 30

30 RICKERBY OPEN EVENT
APR/MAY 2020 • farmers-mart.co.uk
Tanco Leads the way – Reliability & Strength
At the 2020 Rickerby Show Tanco had their range of bale wrapper’s and bale feeding implement’s on display.
FEATURING on their stand was a
special I-73 bale Shear painted
in the well-known original Tanco
blue colour to mark 140 years of
Rickerby Ltd and the companies
association with Cumbria. The
original Tanco blue colour has
a connection with Cumbria
as the colour originated from
the Backbarrow area of South
Cumbria where Tanco had an
assembly and paint facility in
the 1970’s & 1980’s. Ultramarine,
or ‘Dolly Blue’, for use in fabric
colouring was mined in the
Backbarrow area and the dust
from the factory work’s gave a
blue dust tint to the village, so the
Tanco machines were painted the
same colour. The I-73 is designed
for feeding round bales and
features a unique patented clamp
which retains the net & plastic
from the bale when the bale is
cut meaning the loader operator
does not have to leave the cab to
remove the net & plastic.
New for 2020, and also on
display at the 2020 Rickerby Show,
was the new Tanco Q-Series
square & round bale wrapper,
which can be either used on the
front or rear linkage or a handler.
On display was the 2 plastic
dispenser version, the Q-200,
and a 3 plastic dispenser version,
the Q-300, is also available. The
Q-series features the well proven
telescopic cut & hold in use on the
1400 & S-series bale wrapper’s.
Customer and operator feedback
was a strong driver in the develop-
ment of the Q-series and lead to
longer bale roller’s, proportional
oil flow, indexed bale rotation,
gear driven satellites and adjust-
able width of the bale roller’s are
other significant changes to the
Q-series from the very popular
and well proven 1540-EH which is
still available for the 2020 season.
Introduced in 2018 to take
over from the 1400-EH and
very popular amongst user’s
looking for the highest round
bale wrapping output achievable
the 1400-V high output trailed
round bale wrapper was also on
display. The 1400-V is designed
and built on the speed, reliabil-
ity, ease of operation and high
output experienced by operators
of the 1400-EH. The unique to
Tanco and patented split table
of the 1400 series, which was
designed to allow simultaneous
wrapped bale unloading and
next bale reloading, is retained
on the 1400-V and enhanced with
the addition of auto-loading. The
1400-V shares innovative features
such as Tanco’s ultra-reliable tel-
escopic cut & start’s, direct gear
drive to the satellite arm’s and a
variable proportional hydraulic
system with the S-series linkage/
loader wrapper’s which Tanco
will also had on display at the
2020 Rickerby show.
The A-100 trailed turntable
round bale wrappers and
A-200 static wrapper have
proven popular with Rickerby
customer’s. The A-100 shares with
the 1400-V the same innovative
chassis concept of having the
axle at the rear of the machine
allowing transfer of weight to the
tractor making the A-100 very
stable on hill’s. Combined with
large 31x15.5-15 tyre’s as standard
the ability of the A-100 to travel
very well on wet ground is
enhanced. Other features of the
A-100 shared with the 1400-V are
autoload which was introduced
for the 2018 season and the
capability to unload on the move.
The Autoload feature allows a
second bale to be picked up and
lifted clear of the ground whilst
the 1st bale is being wrapped and
when the 1st bale is wrapped
unloaded, either in automatic or
manual mode, the loading arm
finishes it’s cycle loading the 2nd
bale onto the turntable, then
lowering to return to position
ready to reload the 3rd bale
while the wrapping cycle start’s
wrapping the 2nd bale, all done
automatically. The unload on
the move can happen because
due to the low position of the
turntable, allowed by the move
rearward’s of the axle, the need
for an unload ramp to cushion the
fall of the bale from the turntable
to the ground is done away with.
The rear of the turntable passes
close to the ground giving a very
gentle offload of the wrapped
bale resulting in less bale roll on
hill’s. The A-200 wrapper is the
3pt linkage static version of the
A-series and shares the same
lower centre of gravity design as
the A-100E and a compact design
which allows ease of access into
narrow gateway’s and farmyard’s.
A rubber mat is connected to the
A-200 to protect the plastic on the
bale when unloading from stones,
etc, on the ground. The A-200 is
remote controlled using a radio
frequency remote control with a
50m range. This remote control
can also be fitted to the 1400-V
and A-100EH as an option.