a machine for mowing and simultaneously shredding and loading planted and natural grasses into vehicles and for harvesting farm crops for silage. The USSR produces two models: the KIK-1.4 and KIR-1.5.
The KIK-1.4 machine consists of a frame with a shredder and removable attachments: a mower with a finger-type cutter for cutting low-stalk crops; a double-row corn harvester for harvesting high-stalk crops; a picker for picking up windrows of grass; and a cutting trough that is mounted on the mower-shredder when it is used as a stationary straw-and-silage cutter. When the mower-shredder is in operation the cut plants (or those picked up from windrows) are transported by a conveyor to the shredder,
|Table 1. Mowers produced in the USSR|
|KFN-2 1||KZN-2 1||KNU-6||KPS-6 10|
|Number of cutters ..........||1||1||1||1||3||5|
|Total operating width, m ..........||2.1||2.1||2.1||2.1||6.0||10.0|
|Power, kW (hp) ..........||3 (4)||3 (4)||3 (4)||3 (4)||9 (12)||15 (20)|
|Productivity, hectares/hr ..........||1.4||1.42||1.42||1.73||3.36||7.76|
whose blades shred them; they are then discharged through an unloading pipe into a vehicle.
The KIR-1.5 machine has a cutting drum-shredder and mower-type cutter. It operates in the same way as the KIK-1.4. The working elements of the mower-shredder are driven by a takeoff shaft from a tractor; it can produce 15–45 tons/hr.