Claas Europe

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Claas Europe

Europe
Manufacturer: Claas
Sales designation: Europe
Production period: 1958-1968
Engines: Perkins 4.270
( Diesel, 4420 cm 3 , 33 kW )
Length: 9120 mm
Width: 3150 mm
Height: 2850 mm
Wheelbase: 2900 mm
Gauge: 1800 mm / 1000 mm
Standard tires: 10-28 AS / 7-12 AM
Separation system: Horde shaker
Threshing system: Tangential
Cutting width: 2.1 m
Threshed material unloading: in sacks / from grain tank with discharge pipe
Grain tank volume: approx. 1.1 m 3
Top speed: 16 km / h
Dimensions: 2790 kg
Previous model: none
Successor: Claas Cosmos

The Europa is a self-propelled straw walker combine from the agricultural machinery manufacturer Claas from Harsewinkel. It was built from 1958 to 1968 and comes from the same model family as the smaller Claas Columbus introduced in 1959 and the larger Claas Mercur introduced in 1963 . The Europa was designed for smaller farms. Its hourly output is given as 2,300 kg of grain. From 1967 the Europa was replaced by the Claas Cosmos . In total, more than 60,000 Claas Europa and Columbus were built.

technology

The Europa is a self-propelled straw walker combine with a 2,100 mm wide header. The cutting mechanism is the same as that of the Claas Huckepack . It is hydraulically height adjustable between 60 mm and 750 mm and equipped with 14 crop lifters. It adapts to uneven ground using springs. The height of the pick-up type reel with spring tines can be adjusted hydraulically, the speed is fixed and cannot be adjusted. The reel, knife and intake auger are switched on and off independently of the threshing mechanism. The cutter is for the mowing of bearing fruit suitable. A maize picker was also available for the Europa on request.

The threshing drum has a width of 800 mm and a diameter of 450 mm, it has six beater bars. The speed can be set between 620 min −1 and 1,380 min −1 by changing the gear ratio using change gears . The distance between the concave and the threshing drum can be adjusted by means of a torque adjustment. The concave has eight basket rails and a de-awning device, which can be activated to increase the number of basket rails to 11. The concave also has a stone trap. The Europa has three rack shakers.

For cleaning, the Europa has a barrel blower that blows over a lamellar sieve that can be adjusted for different types of fruit. The four lower sieves can be exchanged for different types of fruit. The grain is transported by the grain auger to the elevator, which is placed in front of the left rear tire. The elevator conveys the grain to the sorting cylinder on the roof of the thresher, which has four exchangeable sieves and sorts the grain into three quality levels. On the left side of the thresher there is a standard bagging stand with bagging device , from which the bags can either be loaded onto a trailer or placed in the field. As an alternative to the bagging stand, there is a unloading screw that can unload the grain directly into a trailer. A grain tank with a capacity of 1,000 kg was optionally available for both the bagging stand and the unloading auger.

The straw is usually deposited in swaths by the Europa; A straw press or a straw chopper was available for an extra charge.

In the case of Europe, only the front wheels are driven. It has a three-speed transmission with an additional reverse gear, to which the power from the engine is transmitted via a single-disk dry clutch. In the individual gears, the speed can be hydraulically regulated continuously between 1.3 and 16 km / h. The front wheels have 10–28 AS tires. The rear wheels initially had 5.5–16 TF tires, later models were fitted with 7–12 AM tires. The disc brakes on the front wheels can be operated independently of each other. The Europa's engine is located to the right of the driver's cab. Claas initially offered the Europa with a diesel engine of approx. 42 PS (31 kW), later a throttled 4.4-liter in-line four-cylinder diesel engine of the Perkins 4.270 type with an output of 45 PS (33 kW) at 1500 min - 1 built in.

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literature

  • Jürgen Hummel, Alexander Oertle, Jan Sternberg, Peter Felser: Combine harvesters: history and technology . wk & f Kommunikation, Kempten 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-417-2 , p. 39 .