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Proficut_johndeere-8000

Product catalog summary
Overview
The ProfiCut Direct Cut Header is a high-capacity header designed for direct harvesting of various crops, particularly suited for John Deere self-propelled forage harvesters. It offers precise cutting and chopping in one operation, ensuring efficient whole crop silage harvesting.

Specifications
The header features a working width of 6.20 meters and can achieve working rates of up to 6 hectares per hour. It is equipped with a robust construction and an integrated disc cutter bar, allowing it to handle biomass in all conditions. The operating speed ranges from 5 to 15 km/h, with a cutting height adjustable between 5 to 15 cm.

Performance and Efficiency
The ProfiCut is designed for high performance with minimal soil contamination, ensuring premium silage quality. It provides precise cutting quality without leaf or ear losses, even in tough conditions. The header is universally applicable to various crops, including cereals, grass, clover, lucerne/alfalfa, sunflowers, and sorghum.

Technology and Maintenance
The header includes a feed shaft, header mount, and drive unit optimized for the John Deere 8000 Series. It features a 3-speed gearbox for adapting feeding speeds, a direct drive line for reduced power consumption, and a maintenance-free belt drive. The automatic chain lubrication system enhances reliability and reduces wear.

Design and Usability
The ProfiCut offers excellent ground contour adaptation and cutting quality, with four wide skid plates for clean forage. It includes a multi-coupler for quick attachment and removal, ensuring fast field readiness. The header's design ensures uniform stubble length and optimal chopping quality.

Transport and Handling
The Zürn header transporter allows safe and fast transport of the ProfiCut header, with a maximum road speed of 40 km/h. It features a long wheelbase, pendulum front axle, and mechanical header locking device for secure transport.

Customer Feedback
Custom harvester Thomas Wolf from Germany praises the ProfiCut for its reliability and performance in challenging conditions, highlighting its superior service and support.

Technical Details
The ProfiCut 620 requires a drive power of 74 kW and features 2 x 8 mower discs with 32 knives. It includes a central chain lubrication system and optional Hardox plates for skid plates.

Company Background
Zürn Harvesting GmbH & Co. KG, established in 1885, has a long history of developing and producing agricultural machinery attachments. The company offers a wide range of products, including header attachments and transporters, with a focus on reliability and performance.
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ProfiCut Direct Cut Header The high capacity header for direct harvesting of all crops.

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Best Performance in Whole Crop Harvest Precise cutting and chopping in one operation. The powerful ProfiCut direct cut header is the perfect solution for harvesting wholecrop The ProfiCut direct cutting header was specially designed for the John Deere 8000 Series silage with your John Deere self-propelled forage harvester. The robust construction of self propelled forage harvesters. Its design ensures the driver excellent visibility to the front. the ProfiCut ensures the direct harvest of biomass in all conditions. With the integrated The robust header adapts perfectly to the ground contours...

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Zürn ProfiCut is the John Deere recommended solution for the direct harvesting of biomass.

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Maximized Capacity and Reliability Your requirements for a high-performance all crop direct cutting header. • Harvest of biomass with a minimum of soil contamination for premium silage quality • Precise cutting quality without leaf/ear losses - also in tough conditions and laid crops • Universal use in different crops: cereals, grass, clover, lucerne/alfalfa, sunflowers, milo/sorghum • Robust construction for operation with the most powerful forage harve

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High Performance and Easy Maintenance Superior technology for John Deere forage harvesters. ►► Feed shaft, header mount and drive unit are perfectly matched to the John Deere 8000 Series. The feed drum ensures a smooth handover of the crop to the feedrolls. ►► The multi-coupler with maintenance-free design offers single point attachment of electrical and hydraulical lines and automatic header identification. Attaching and removing is completed in seconds and you are out harvesting in the field fast. ►► The 3-speed gearbox allows you to perfectly adapt the speeds of the feeding auger and feed...

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Uniform Stubble Length, Perfect Cutting and Best Chopping Quality The ProfiCut direct cutting header scores with the quality of work. Powerful Header: Zürn ProfiCut • Best cutting quality with the Kuhn disc mower bar • High output with working speed up to 15 kph • Minimized contamination of feed and best ground contour following due to adapting headstock frame and four wide, adjustable skid plates • Best crop flow in high yields with floating auger and adjustable feeding paddles • Very robust drive lines with premium components • Central drive of mower bars for best synchronisation of mower discs...

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Perfectly matched Components For a succesful harvest without any downtime. ►► The worldwide proven Kuhn disc mower bar with quick-change knife system convinces with excellent cutting quality, high functional reliability and low maintenance effort. ►► Due to the short distance between the central drive units, the two mower bars are synchronized perfectly. Even after many hours of operation, there is no risk of the blades colliding. ►► For hardest working conditions, the four skid plates can be optionally equipped with wear-resistant Hardox plates. ►► The hydraulically driven side knifes cleanly...

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“The quality of work has convinced us in all conditions” Farmer and custom harvester Thomas Wolf from Eußenheim, Lower Franconia, Germany When harvesting crops for biogas plants custom harvester Wolf needs high performing and indisputably reliable technology. In 2011 the first ProfiCut was in operation at the custom harvester Wolf: “That was a test run in 4 - 5 m high sorghum, and some was laid crop. All competitors have failed in these difficult conditions. Only the ProfiCut has succeeded”. Wolf describes his first experience with the Zürn direct cutting header. After this good demonstration...

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Easy loading and Fast Transport The header transporter for direct cutting headers. In order to reduce time lost during transportation forage harvesters are usually driven fast on the road. Therefore our header transporter type 600 is braked on both axes as standard equipment and meet all the requirements of traffic regulations for approval up to 40 km/h. The long wheelbase and the pendulum front axle provide a high driving stability and comfortable tracking properties for this transporter. The low loading height and specially shaped supports facilitate the loading and secure the direct cutting...

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Technical DetailsFor the most powerful forage harvesters. ProfiCut 620 Working width Operating speed Work rate Cutting height Qty. mower discs Qty. knives Rpm mower discs 0 Feeding auger | Feeding auger Drives Drive power required Adapter frame Feed drum unit Qty. skid plates Hardox plates for skid plates Central chain lubrication system Operating hours counter Hydr. vertical cutter bars Weight Direct cut header for harvest of whole crop silage with self-propelled forage harvesters John Deere 8000 Series. 6.20 m (20 ft) 5 - 15 km/h up to 6 ha/h 5 - 15 cm 2 x 8 32 (2/disc) 3,000 min-1 600 mm 70...

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130 Years of Passion for Ag Machinery Our product range. The company Zürn was founded in 1885 as a blacksmith shop. In 1963 Zürn became a John Deere dealership. For more than 30 years Zürn has been developing and producing attachments for combine and forage harvesters for all manufacturers. PremiumFlow Belt Conveyor Header RapsProfi Header Extension RapsCompact Side Knife Sunflower Header Extension Header Transporters Zürn 150 Plot Combine The extensive range of products extends from header attachments for rape and sunflower harvesting, to the direct cutting ProfiCut header and the high-performance...

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