CFS - Realize the benefits
Continous-Flow-System (CFS)
Strautmann forage wagons have a lower drag resistance than those of the competitors. The „CFS" increases this advantage as experience has shown during the past years. It is the continuous material flow „Continuous Flow" which makes the difference.
Low power requirement
The newly developed pick-up and the „CFS drum" disperse the swath (widening effect) and feed it over its total width to the rotor and the cutting unit. The rotor which is mounted 100 mm higher conveys the prewilted green fodder through the correspondingly shortened conveyor duct into the load space thus saving energy and reducing the power requirement by approx. 10%.
Optimum filling
The material is loaded into the load space over its total width thus improving the filling efficiency. We measured 10% more weight per cubic meter several times. The tonnage is important, not the volume of the load space.
High acreage performance
Better filling efficiency also means greater output. The areas to be harvested can be cleared more quickly and the fodder is taken faster into the silo. After all, time is money.
Optimum adaptation to ground contours
Due to the design of the CFS drum, the pick-up is in a very flat position such that the pressure exerted on the roller feelers is very low which enables the pick-up to better adapt to undulations in the field. Furthermore, the green fodder is continuously and gently picked up due to the V-shaped helical arrangement of the pick-up tines.
Protection of drive components
Due to the homogeneous and continuous flow of material, the CFS conveying unit runs very smoothly such that there are hardly any peak loads. And if there are no peak loads, the complete drive unit will not "suffer" thus ensuring a long service life of the conveying unit and therefore of the complete forage trailer.
Longer service life of knives
Grinding of knives: Only if it's worth doing! The widening effect ensures a more even load of the knives. „CFS" allows considerably longer grinding intervals. Grinding all knives is worth doing if all knives are blunt. But what if only the central knives were blunt? Grind all knives? Grind only the central ones? Exchange the exterior and interior ones?
