Ebersbacher Agrarvertrieb puts super combine harvester to work in Bautzen

From Kathrin Krüger

Ebersbach. Martin Schönberg is satisfied and stretches his chest. A world first is gliding across the grain field near Malschwitz near Bautzen. The sales manager of the Agricultural Engineering Sales Saxony from Ebersbach demonstrates the gold award-winning CR 11 combine harvester to a customer. The technical marvel manufactured in Belgium was presented at Agritechnica in Hanover last November. Now it has its sales premiere in Saxony. "This is the largest rotor combine harvester in the world," says an impressed Martin Schönberg. It can harvest 100 tons of grain in one hour. The mowing and cutting unit achieves significantly higher throughputs during harvesting than older models.

The technical parameters make the heart of every farmer and machine fan beat faster. The machine that harvests our bread grain from the field has a 775 hp engine and a 15.30 meter wide cutting unit. In America, the thresher would even cut over a width of 18 meters. The grain tank holds 20,000 liters. 210 liters per second can be emptied during bunkering. The combine harvester itself is around 11.5 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. It weighs 20 tons, has a double sieve box and an elevator capacity of up to 250 tons per hour. "The world first is the drive concept," explains Martin Schönberg. "It is a direct stepless transmission with almost no belts." The entire machine is built around the crop flow.

The CR 11 is also already being tested as the first series machine in the Czech Republic, although not via Ebersbacher Agrartechnik Vertrieb. 15 threshers are being harvested there. Our neighbors also know that the new super thresher has 50 percent more power than the largest to date Combine harvester New Holland's CR 10.90. According to experts, it pushes forward into new dimensions of threshing technology. "In the fall, corn will also be harvested with the signal yellow thresher," says Sales Manager Martin Schönberg optimistically. However, the XXL also has its price and costs over one million euros according to the list price.