New Claas Jaguar 1000: a focus on efficiency

Claas is expanding its range of self-propelled forage harvesters in the “Jaguar” series. The Claas Jaguar 1000 has been added to the “800” and “900” families.

Four machines with power ranging from 850 to 1100 horsepower, designed to always work in terms of maximum efficiency, with minimum consumption and minimum effort on the part of the operator.

The Claas offering of self-propelled forage harvesters in the “Jaguar” series is expanding. To the “800” and “900” families now joins the “1000” family: four machines with power outputs ranging from 850 to 1,110 horsepower, designed to operate with maximum efficiency, minimum fuel consumption, and minimal operator effort.

They are not yet fully-fledged robots, but they are close. The new four “1000” series forage harvesters launched by Claas at the beginning of September—identified as “1080,” “1090,” “1100,” and “1200”—not only raise Claas’s performance benchmark in the sector to 1,110 horsepower, but also position themselves as harvesting solutions capable of operating with high levels of autonomy and efficiency, benefiting from the most advanced, and in some cases exclusive, connectivity technologies offered by the “Claas Connect” platform.

This allows remote technicians to monitor and even intervene on the machines to optimize performance, while worksites equipped with “Cemos” solutions can automate operations with the same goal. Among these are “Cemos Auto Crop Flow” and “Cemos Auto Performance,” which intelligently and automatically monitor engine speed and traction based on machine workload, ensuring maximum and consistent productivity throughout the harvesting process. They do so by adjusting forward speed in relation to engine load and automatically modulating output power when required.

With this equipment, the new “Jaguar 1000” models always deliver maximum productivity with minimal fuel consumption, and, as mentioned, without requiring the operator to manage performance.

Supporting this approach are features such as “Cemos Auto Fill,” which automatically controls the spout orientation day and night using digital analysis of 3D images captured by dedicated cameras, and the “GPS Cemos Pilot 1200” trajectory management system, which guides the worksite in the field with precision ranging from 2 to 15 centimeters depending on whether or not an RTK correction signal is available.

Once work is completed, the operator can quickly and easily transmit machine-collected data to the office, always benefiting from simple and secure automated processing.

In fact, the new “Jaguar 1000” machines can be considered the latest step forward by Claas in the field of semi-autonomous self-propelled machinery. And machines that in the medium term are expected to be joined by fully robotic harvesters. These will help offset the shortage of skilled labor already affecting agricultural enterprises.

Also noteworthy, always regarding automation in the new “Jaguar” range, is the introduction of new “Nutrimer” sensors. These not only determine in real time and with maximum precision the dry matter content of forage, but also record starch, crude protein, and sugar levels. They can be used as ISOBUS equipment, transferable from machine to machine.

Traction management is of course automatic: an all-wheel-drive system with intelligent slip control, combined with tire inflation/deflation options, helps protect soils. In practice, the new “Jaguar 1000” machines have no limitations linked to terrain type or slope, excelling even in difficult harvesting conditions and on inclines.

Such environments highlight the robustness and reliability of their engines: MAN “D2862” twelve-cylinder units with displacements of over 24 liters, developed in collaboration with Liebherr and already powering the “Jaguar 980” and “990” with outputs of 850 and 925 horsepower. These same engines power the “Jaguar 1080” and “1090,” while the “1100” and “1200” deliver 1,020 and 1,110 horsepower, respectively. All four share the same transmission layout between the transversely mounted engine and the machine systems.

This layout is based on a multi-rib “Powerband” belt transmitting power to the chopping rotor, accelerator, and “Corn Cracker.” These groups can therefore be controlled individually, just like the collection and feed auger, pickup feed discs, and vertical feed rollers of the “Orbis” headers—all of which can be adjusted independently in terms of speed to adapt to harvesting conditions. Powering the transmission, precompression, and independent drives is a gearbox connected to pumps operating the hydraulic motors, positioned at the rear left of the engine.

Speaking of hydraulics, and among the innovations of the new “Jaguar 1000” range (to be explored in greater detail in upcoming issues of this magazine), is a new hydraulic precompression system serving the widest feed channel on the market at 91 centimeters.

Four precompression rollers ensure a uniform crop flow regardless of swath thickness, guaranteeing consistent feeding of the “V-Flex” knife drum, which can be configured with between 20 and 36 blades depending on the desired chop length. In this configuration, the new forage harvesters—particularly the “Jaguar 1000”—can process up to 50 tons of maize per hour.

Plus of the New Jaguar 1000

Hydraulic precompression of feed rollers and 910 mm “V-Flex” knife drum.
New 310 mm “Multi Crop XL” cracker.
“Auto Fill” automatic spout control system.
Water-based additive system cleaning, also usable for knife sharpening.
Independent variable transmissions for header and pickup.
New low-maintenance pickups “3000,” “3800,” and “4500,” with no chain drive and sealed cam gearboxes.
New 12- and 14-row maize headers “Orbis 9000” and “10500.”
“Premium Line” wear parts as standard.
Direct drive of working units and optimized hydraulic motors.
Intelligent engine management with “Cemos Auto Performance” and “Cemos Auto Crop Flow.”
Low-noise cab with rotating driver’s seat.
Optional joystick steering for precise control with thumb and forefinger.
New “Nutrimer” system.
Real-time yield mapping.
Full connection to “Claas Connect” for managing machine data, fleets, orders, and yields.