2024 John Deere V461R Base

2024 John Deere V461R

• Creates 4' x 6' bales

• Precutter: MaxiCut HC 13 or 25 knife options

• Full-width hydraulically operated drop floor

Features may include:

• Versatile, productive, and durable premium pickup

• Cam-track design offers the best versatility

• Left, pickup with cam track; right, cam-less pickup

• Versatility has been one of the key criteria when designing the R-Series Balers. Due to a narrow weather window and increasing amounts of difficult crops, such as heavy silage, growers do not want to risk losing any more time during the season.

• Cam-track technology provides an efficient solution for such needs. The traditional stripper design provides reduced space between the pickup tines and rotor feeder, while the tine motion helps to avoids pinching.

• The cam-less technology requires long strippers, creating a dead zone between the tines and rotor. Additionally, fixed tines can easily pinch crops in sticky conditions, causing plugs that need to be manually removed.

• Looking at potential component wear, the cam-track pickup features a low turning speed and big bearings on both side of the tine bars. Also, the cam lever is made of forged steel. These features guarantee a long component life and low maintenance.

• Premium pickup pushes harvesting capacity a step forward

• R-Series Balers are designed for the most demanding operators. The pickup features only premium components and concepts such as:

• 2.2-m (7.2-ft) wide pickup, with a 1.92-m (6.3-ft) tine-to-tine distance - this important width provides comfort and speed capacity when harvesting the largest swaths.

• Five tine bars - the fifth bar allows the tines to rake two more times per second versus the John Deere standard four-tine pickup.

• O-shaped tubular tine bars with central spider reinforcement - tines bars are assembled with ball bearings on the central spider, and central spiders highly limit tine bars bending in the very heavy crops.

• 6-mm (0.23-in.) diameter galvanized tines with high strength to harvest the toughest crops.

• Tines are designed to fold to replace potential shear bolt or cam clutch overload safety. 6.0-mm (0.23-in.) diameter tine push pickup maximum intake capacity up to 18 kW (24.1 hp), a value often not reached by machines using cam or shear bolt protected pickup.

• Stainless-steel strippers (exclusive feature) that give highly durable rust protection, perfect gliding capacity no matter the material, and is much more resistant to acid damage caused by additive uses (propionic acid).

• High-Capacity (HC) Premium rotors grab the toughest swaths

• The R-Series benefits from the proven HC rotor concept featuring an in-line design

• By using the HC Premium rotor – a device implemented on John Deere round balers since 2012 – the R-Series feeding system offers:

• Limited distance from the pickup to the rotor tines to reduce plugging, especially in brittle straw or short silage

• Reduced number of bearings and distributed loads along the rotor to increase reliability

• Large 48-cm (18.9-in.) diameter converging augers facilitating crops transfer

• The overall result is optimized crop flow that avoids all dead area where crops stay for a long time.

• This smooth and regular crop flow guarantees high feeding capacity, especially in short crops such as brittle straw or sticky silage.

• RotoFlow HC Premium is the perfect solution for non-cutting uses