Mower-Shredder

Mower-Shredder 

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
	KSKh-2 1A KSKh-2 1B	KSP-2 1 KSP-2 1A	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.