2021 Grimme BM Series 300

2021 Grimme BM Series 300

The defoliator type BM 300 is a six-row trailed defoliator equipped with a steel flail shaft and two cleaning shafts. The machine is mainly used in a so-called two-phase harvesting process for beets, chicory roots and celeriac. The leaf is chopped at full width of the machine and deposited Inline between the (beet) rows. Row widths between 45 cm and 50 cm resp. 18" and 20" available for the BM 300.

The steel flail shaft and the two counter-rotating cleaning shafts ensure a perfectly defoliated crop.

Low maintenance drive of the shafts, using v-belts on the r/h and l/h-side of the machine.

Features may include:

• Clean chopped leaves are the basic for a good start into the harvest.

• Reliable defoliating by use of one steel flail shaft and two counter rotating cleaning shafts with rubber flails.

• Clean removing of weed between the rows

• Avoids blockages in the harvester and give clean harvested crop

• Selectable row width of 45 to 50 cm, resp. 18 to 20 inch

• Tractor attachment via drawbar with mechanical drawbar adjustment

• Full width flail shaft with spiral arranged steel flails

• First and second cleaning shaft over the beet rows consist of napped rubber flails. They are manually adjustable to the required row width.

• The depth control is effected at the front by means of a lifting cylinder with a spindle-adjustable end stop. At the rear a spindle-adjustable castor wheels is used.

• Power transmission via PTO shaft 1000 rpm.

• 4 wheels, type 7.50-20 TR 15 AS