Krone Big M 500

[RODHA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPfDfA8 ... JK&index=4

We need this on the console

I hope someone can help us


Edit: Ok, as we have polls, here is mine. Obviously

[masterplan]

Well yes and no. Sure, it looks great plus we'd have another use for a forage harvester besides chopping corn for chaff, but on the other hand a simple T6 can cut even a big grass field in virtually no time.

[RODHA]

Big M has a 13.2m working width. The biggest in game mower setup is 9m with the Lely butterfly.
Besides, it just looks much more fun doing it with a harvester rather than a mower.

[theSeb]

I wish Giants would update the model and texture themselves, because the PC version is just a conversion of the old model from 13 and looks bad in the game. It already didn't look right in 15, iirc

[RODHA]

Yes, you are absolutely right on that.
I actually hope a Krone DLC from Giants including the Big M.
But who knows.

[masterplan]

Big M has a 13.2m working width. The biggest in game mower setup is 9m with the Lely butterfly.
Besides, it just looks much more fun doing it with a harvester rather than a mower.

Still, I cut grass for 2100+ cows and don't field limited or held back by mowers. What I would appreciate more would be a working forage harvester picking up grass / hay. Something like this:


It's not working in FS17. You can't send a helper with the forage harvester. If you do it yourself with a wagon / tipper connected to the forage harvester, after filling up the tipper you'll simply lose / waste any grass you drive upon. And last but not least: this way in game converts hay back to grass!

If I could assing a helper to the forage harvester, I could drive a semi with a 70k L tipper - less trips.

[RODHA]

See, another fact that we need the Big M.
As it is a mower, you can assign a worker

[masterplan]

But only for mowing, not for picking up, so there's no upgrade for me.

[IseOlen]

There's an easy way for pickup using CP:
1. Create course for M500 and mow the field using it.
2. Use large windrower (at least 13,5m wide) on the same course (you could use smaller one but then would have to create a new course).
3. Create unloading course that starts and ends on the field.
4. Take a tractor with forage harvest trailer and "merge courses" done in p1 and p3 (in case you used smaller windrower merge courses for that and unload course). Let it run.

Of course, currently M500 cannot lay "spreaded" grass and has a rear hitch so (in case your goal is not to create chaff and are not too concerned about reality) you could actually just attach a baler to M500 and get baled grass with just M500 (haven't tried - maybe a forage harvest trailer works too - with p4 style merged courses). Then using the same course (p1) you could either wrap bales and/or pick them up. I have not used CP for "pickup bales + unload at home". I imagine you would need to clear the unload area between runs (unless your unload area is actually a sellpoint).

Edited:
oh bugger... "on console". So sorry...

[RODHA]

Yeah, you know, the peasant bickering

[Frantic Farmer]

I watched all that video lol :/

[redglasses]

Ya giants should make it so you can hire a worker for the lifting of grass, wither it be by forage harvester, baler, or loading wagon

[Ragman]

If some one could mod elho tr 220 (or some other manufacturer similar tedder&windrower) it would be perfect to use with big M to make hay.

https://youtu.be/x7XB-eJXyxo

[ErwinR55]

Big M has a 13.2m working width. The biggest in game mower setup is 9m with the Lely butterfly.
Besides, it just looks much more fun doing it with a harvester rather than a mower.

Actually 16 m with this setup currently possible on console
Not realistic, but fun none the less. It's a game right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrqgdGcrM8

[RODHA]

Ahahahahahahaha....
Oh my god. That Lemken is all mighty

Edit: and I've just become your 95th sub