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osition and other active functions the increased responsiveness of the settings is a big improvement giving real time functionality and making it easier to use although in inexperienced hands it could deliver variable results much of the settings are used in the same manner as previous models except that fan suction pressure has been replaced with revolutions per minute and acceleration has been removed altogether but pinch now called toe in amplitude frequency now simply called shaking and the other shaking parameters remain unchanged shaking in excess of 495 500c min except for early varieties and amplitudes in excess of 95 100 seem unnecessary my argument on fan suction pressure remains the same however the optimum measures this in revolutions which can be as high as 1350 1200rpm for early reds and 1150 1050 for whites although for aussies who prefer cleaner samples at the cost of the juice and upper fan speeds can be higher the mechanical action of the shaker arms now known as easy smart is much more aggressive and more heavily reliant on the pinch being frequently and accurately set mav head settings between 8590 and optimum are not comparable or cross relevant breaking posts is done without any difficulty whatsoever one of the most interesting features is the tier iv perkins engine and the power management feature there is no throttle essentially the engine will provide the correct revolutions based on what the driver asks the mav to do consequently the engine revolutions are continuously variable resulting is significant fuel savings going uphill the motor just revs more downhill it revs less and when manoeuvring around and tipping the engine is mostly mid range on flat ground with all harvest modes active the perkins is delivering its maximum torque at 1600rpm the fuel saving is immense up to 47 and in one hilly job i undertook one night after 14 hours running i still had no concerns of fuel levels safety features highly in the 890 optimum a full rops 4 cab 5 emergency stop buttons with three on the shaking head and cameras front and rear give a driver full view pre select reverse in cab pitch indicator safe or cleaning all coupled with a higher working speed and a greater grape fruit production rate makes this harvester an easy choice for those operating in large vineyards or for the contractor with large harvesting contract wineries and vineyards will need to upgrade their field equipment to handle a harvest rate of up to 50 tonnes per hectare at a meagre 4 5kph with bin capacities of 2 4 3 6 cubic metres receivable equipment that comprises a tractor and a single 2 or 2 25 tonnes bin will not keep up unless there are multiple units or gondolas in the 6 12 tonne realm but many will struggle to justify the use of the 890 optimum given that they will not be able to take advantage of this increase production rate it would seem there wouldn t be any point in getting one until the load out sequence could cope with it or growers could guarantee quality above 7 12 tonnes per hectare what i m waiting for terrain tracks on the drives leave a comment filed under farming tagged as pellenc grapes harvest wine march 14 2015 1 00 pm the smart controller a final word on parameters harvester drivers can learn a thing or too as well both in viticulture plant production and viniculture wine production my foray into the australian harvesting season over the last two years in an area contaminated with phelloxera has opened my eyes to a far greater involvement by winemaker and vineyard owner in the whole process for red varieties the quality standard for sparkling base traditionally meant clean samples most definitely reduced juice collection as opposed to fermentation requirements opinion is becoming divided where cleanliness is much more of a requirement but many winemakers and growers were completely unawares that until pellenc harvesters arrived juice collection was non existent and the totally clean sample myth was quite costly the very fact that the pellenc harvester was the first harvester on the market to retain all the grape juice had slipped in under the radar and as winemakers demands took precedent without knowing totally clean sample requirements meant the suction fans had removed up to 200 300 litres of juice from a 1 2 tonne bin of fruit australians are more interested in the quality of the pick i e whether there is mog present or not rather than whether the operator had retained all the juice pellenc 890 optimum with low fans 2015 pellenc 4590 pinot straight into the fermenting bin 2013 so from the we need to bite the bullet bash it off on the first night with sporadic rain fall to something is wrong with the kiwi driver sentiment after the fact on the following night i learnt the hard way that we were no longer picking sparkling and i should have made greater effort to remove all the mog and in so doing ensuring that the winemaker understood that we would be sacrificing some juice of course as soon as you tell them that the horror of the realisation of what that meant very quickly sunk in and opinions changed just have a look at the operators handbook or other productions by pellenc australia for example which includes page after page of binned fruit samples with very little presence of juice growers and winemakers in new zealand would cry foul if i delivered a similar sample shiraz courtesy pellencaus chardonnay courtesy pellencaus with these thoughts in mind amplitude is the setting which splits the skins the most and should be reduced to mitigate this frequency needs to be proportionally higher then your ground speed and acceleration is useful here pinot 114 115 777 can require lower speeds higher amplitudes along with merlot whereas pinot 5 23 and cabernet are much easier to remove off the vine earlier the pick the more difficult as is partially ripe bunches where smaller developing berries are left behind ba reducing the active length of the shaker bars literally means that when set between the minimum of 50 to the maximum of 150 of the total picking length the shaker bars return from the post settings if sensed back to the picking settings at the percentage of the length you ve chosen but it depends whether you have increased or decreased settings around the post and what your attempts are around the post whether you reduce or extend the picking length if you have an easy pick fruit falling off not mog etc then quite often the smart settings will be quite low or should be that being the case harvesting around wooden posts may still be difficult so it would be reasonable to increase at least the frequency at this time because you are shaking more than necessary as between posts at this point shortening the active distance wouldn t achieve anything as you ve chosen to shake more to remove more fruit around the post keeping the active distance longer than 100 would ensure increased shaking after the post and increase fruit harvested but if you have a difficult pick early season unripe or simply require full acceleration frequency smart settings then a decision could be made to reduce or lighten the shaking around posts to mitigate breakages as you already have high smart parameters by the time you are coming to the end of the active length of the shaker bars at some point you need revert back to the vine panel settings to maintain post integrity set active distance to greater than 100 typically to 110 alternatively a setting of 90 under these conditions would ensure a greater chance of fruit removal after the post and yet reduce the effects on the post in practice though noticing a difference can be subjective and my experience shows little effect either way with ground speeds above 5 5km hr ba shaker bars are expensive so they need to be looked after in the australian summer temperatures become so high that bar including the post sensor rod can lose its shape completely unexpectantly and very quickly however as most harvests are conducted overnight this isn t too much of a problem until harvests drag on to mid morning bolting in a new shaker bar should always be the option so new rubber axles work in pairs and straps should always be used when the head is not in use to restrain their flex and maintain their shape just this 2014 2015 summer in new zealand we had considerable difficulty with shaker rods losing their shape and its no coincidence that we have had one of the hottest summers and driest for a considerable time consistently in the low to mid 30 s remember when bolting up new shaker rods fit both rubber axles in their housings before you start bolting them up and make sure you don t twist the rubber isolators as you are doing so leave a comment filed under farming tagged as pellenc grapes harvest wine january 16 2015 9 57 pm end of season mess so what goes wrong over a whole harvest season well actually at times quite a lot especially when a driver doesn t know what they are doing or just doesn t give a shit when you come across some drivers during the harvesting season from time to time they are ever insistent that they had completed the servicing regime but evidence proves otherwise it is damn frustrating having to inject 40 shots in three nipples every 8 hours but that is just how it works i had to clean and service a mav before the end of the last 2014 season as the one allocated to the customer on dry hire simply had so much damage it was uneconomical to carry on with it when we handed it over to one of their drivers he promptly listed out a stream of apologies for some vineyard damage he caused that at that moment we hadn t yet heard of through the client it seamed he simply had no real care and it was just all in a days work when a driver attends specially organised professional training and uses tractors diggers and other machinery on a regular basis is it really ok to smash strainer posts tear belts misuse the mav in general and lie about conducting its servicing do they do this to their own vehicles bet you they don t here is the thing the smart controller records a totaliser during a 12 month period our three selectiv mav s perform up to 180 hours each in harvesting blackcurrants being a completely different crop their setup is quite different even so by the time we have finished both harvest seasons each head unit has completed 5 5 million cycles but this one machine an older vinitrieur which we don t use in the blackcurrants begins the grape season 180 hours short of use compared to the other three come grape harvesting season the three selectiv and the vinitrieur are all pressed into action with the vinitrieur by request is seconded to one of our larger customers for the majority of the season 90 or more by the time the season has completed this mav has completed around 400 hours yet often 100 hours short of our three individual selectiv machines yet the damage is extreme and here s why this is a lazy setting these monkey s don t care and every time we intercepted this machine and revised the settings they were found to be returned back to this this is a setting for someone who wants all the fruit removed around all the posts with an absolute no care no responsibility attitude to plant grape or machinery it is an adage to just don t give a fuck even though this mav finishes the season short of 100 hours this mav vinitrieur finishes up almost a million cycles more than the three individual selectiv machines driving the machine hard and fast may reduce time cost but increases maintenance cost significantly here s more evidence of people just not giving a damn the following are the main pole bearings that carry the shaker arms no grease has been sent here at all just constantly harvesting and maybe washing down but no maintenance servicing as instructed the pole bearings house the four poles to which the front and rear attachments of the shaker bars are mounted these are full height within the head unit support delicate sensors to indicate post detection and high speed high pressure hydraulic rams oscillate thems creating the motion to agitate the shaker bars here s more evidence of dry hire drivers that don t care this is outright willful negligence the fan casings at the rear of the picking head have had their panels beaten so much they had jammed the fans solid halting their rotation how shaker arms that had broken from the front main shaker poles had stripped their rubber mounts and swung around to the rear bashing on the side of the housings to the point where they had worn through their steel casings the arms would have been flapping and tearing at the trunks along the way negating their ability to pick the fruit requiring much higher than required settings to get the job done then there is belt damage this is where drivers refuse to undertake centralising the belts each morning before theirs days work the belts de centralise rub on one side of the stainless channels and allows trash to enter which then exacerbates the situation till you have a solid belt jam an alarm then sounds indicating the belt is stationary but as the drive roller continues considerable damage can be done when this alarm is ignored the drive roller melts its way through a 6 thousand dollar belt in 30 seconds is that all no driving off in a hydraulically driven machine with the handbrake on destroys the brake drum because of the costs of these items we do not carry spares but the hydraulic lines have to be removed and a steel brace fitted to permanently keep the brake off again sheer incompetence so how is the next harvest season going to turn out i m over it already don t forget the coffee 1 comment filed under farming tagged as pellenc blackcurrants grapes harvest march 3 2014 1 45 am a typical day in a pellenc 8590 it was a cold morning crisp but with the promise of a warm and still day i arrive when it s still dark in my winter pants and a warm pullover but i stripped to my day outfit once i had completed the pre check of my pellenc 8590 the shaker arms and axles mounts seemed in good condition and their was no missing or misaligned collector plates nightshift mckean estates waipara the harvester had been washed well after the previous shift and the various grease nipples showed evidence of at least having received some grease as i climbed up onto the top of the picking head i inspected each area and closed the access hatches which had been left open everything was clear the main belts looked central and the mirrors were clean i climb down off the harvester and checked my watch i d been here for 1 2 an hour already but then i had walked around and checked the rest of the harvester it was time to go i climb up into the cab folded away the ladder turned on the headlights and rotating beacon raised the rev s to about 2000 and crept out of our base onto the highway i raise the revs to the maximum and i am on my way to your place that coffee i receive once i arrive at the vineyard has just been 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