Leonid Alexandrovich

Formerly, we were inclined to use Niva harvesters, but when I saw technical characteristics of Vector in your publicity leaflet I found out that this harvester is cut out for us! Before that, we had an experiment: once we purchased the harvester Enisei, but the results of its work were not satisfactory as it has broken down several times. So, firstly it was difficult to convince our managing director of necessity to buy the harvester Vector.

At first, I worried that there would be some problems at the grain storage silo with humid grain as it had happened with the harvesters Kolos. But after the first year of operation I saw that it was not the case. Nevertheless, Vector also had some problems. Once its heat-exchanger broke down, but specialists of the technical department repaired it quickly, so the harvester was standing idle only for three hours.

One operator cut 1200 tons of grain during the campaign with our Vector, earlier the same operator had operated the Niva harvester with which he had cut only 600-800 tons of grain. It means that Vector substitutes two harvesters Enisei or two Nivas! Vector suits us in particular regarding fuel consumption, though this parameter is marginally better in the Niva harvesters, but in comparison with the Enisei harvesters, Vector has given an excellent account of itself in this regard. Vector has a big threshing drum. It means that a lower speed is sufficient for threshing, and that, in its turn, means that the grain is less shattered. The chopper is good but the tilling is closed full-width of the header that is not worse than in the harvester Dominator from the neighboring farm.

So, this is a good harvester of a high engineering performance standard. I believe that we are on a right way. Next year we suppose to buy another Vector, as it’s better to buy two Vectors than three or four Eniseys or Nivas. Since now we feel inclined to use nothing but Vector!

Economical performance of the equipment

Designation	Units of measurement	Vector	Enisei-1200
Year of manufacture	-	2005	2004
Purchase price	RUB	2 300 000	1 600 000
Running hours
grain	t	1 262	557
Expenses
Fuel consumption	RUB	132 960	64 256
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Amortization	RUB	230 000	160 000