Regardless of whether it is a farm or a bio-gas plant – success and profitability begin in the field. This is where the Fendt Katana comes into play. The more varied the conditions, the more the Fendt Katana plays to its strengths. Read here how powerful the Fendt Katana really is.
Fendt Katana test reviews
profi Praxistest (04/2024 & 10/2024)
Fendt Katana 850 convinces in grass
Fendt Katana 850 in a practical test
The Fendt Katana 850 was put to the test by profi in a practical field test. It battled its way through dry maize, deep soils and wet grass in wet northern Germany. The test results are impressive.
“The engine in the Katana 850 produces a maximum output of 623 kW/847 hp from a full 18 litres of displacement at 1800 rpm.” – profi (04/2024)
Innovative cooling management
“The optional electronically controlled Cleanfix fan from Hägele permanently adjusts its speed and even the blade position to the engine temperature and therefore only cools as much as necessary. And at freely adjustable intervals, the fan reverses its direction of rotation and blows the radiator free — particularly practical in dry grass.” — profi (04/2024)
Crop Flow 2.0 – Optimised crop flow
“For dairy cattle, we set the chop length to 10 to 12 mm, for biogas we chopped as short as possible at 3.7 mm. In both cases, the Katana felt comfortable and impressed with its crop flow.” - profi (04/2024)
Eco-Power concept – fuel-efficient shredding
"We really liked the fact that the engine speed can be significantly reduced in Eco mode – 1,400 rpm is no problem here with smaller amounts of grass. However, the speed of the chopping units remains constant so that the drum and accelerator reliably throw crops with a high sugar content. […]” – profi (04/2024)
“However, foraging grass in eco mode is more economical. The engine speed can be lowered to 1,400 rpm for lighter crops. [...] In our experience, fuel savings of around 18% can be achieved – values of around 0.5 litres per tonne of fresh mass were very good. […] The constant speed of the foraging elements ensured a reliable crop flow even at low engine speeds – very good.” – profi (04/2024)
18%
Fuel saving
New discharge chute convinces throughout!
“[...] The crop left the chute very reliably under all conditions and the stream was properly focussed. A swivelling angle of 210° is good, and the loading height of almost 6.20 m is also ample. The chute camera, which swivels with the flap, is perfect. To make things easier for the driver, FillControl automatically adjusts the opening angle of the flap depending on the position and angle.” - profi (04/2024)
The Fendt Katana 850 put to the test in maize
Bella Katana - The Fendt Katana put to the test in Italy
Due to poor weather conditions in northern Germany, the Fendt Katana could not be fully tested in maize in the profi test of issue 04/2024. The Fendt Katana forage harvester was scrutinised again in mid-August 2024 to give the machine a thorough check-up. This time in Italy on Paolo Cazzola’s biogas and dairy farm. Read here how it impresses with strong throughputs and impeccable cutting quality.
The efficiency of the new Crop Flow 2.0 is particularly evident in the high throughput per horsepower. “Even at 4 mm, the Katana 850 achieved an FM throughput of almost 260 tonnes per hour. At 7 mm, the throughput increased by 20 tonnes to 289 tonnes per hour. Each further increase in cutting length by 3 mm brought another 15 t/h more fresh mass onto the wagon – great! We foraged a maximum of 320 tonnes per hour with the Fendt flagship, which is 110 tonnes of dry matter per hour or 5.25 hectares per hour. In relation to the maximum output of 847 hp specified by Fendt for the Liebherr unit, the Katana 850 achieves 0.1 to 0.13 t/h DM per hp. These are top-notch values with which the Katana can and will compete with other makes in this performance class.” – profi (10/2024)
320 t/h fresh mass
Throughput achieved during the test
“850 Liebherr horsepower is efficiently converted into throughput.” – profi (10/2024)
Minimum fuel consumption with maximum forage harvester performance
“Diesel consumption was also at a very good level. 0.44 litres of diesel per tonne of fresh material is one of the lowest values we have determined in this forage harvester class. – profi (10/2024)
0.44 l/t
Diesel consumption per tonne of fresh mass
Thoroughly tested
“The sieve analyses were carried out for us by the Institute of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Bonn. At 4 mm foraging length, a good 60% of the material is in the fraction up to 6 mm and over 90% in the fraction up to 10 mm – foraging qualities that we have never measured before!” – profi (10/2024)
Conclusion of profi
“Perfect foraging quality”
“In terms of throughput and foraging quality, Fendt has nothing to hide.”
Focus on customer experience
Find out what our customers say about the Fendt Katana
“It has nothing to hide from the competition here. “The Fendt Katana is very tidy, and you can get to everything very easily during daily maintenance. I am completely satisfied with the wearing parts such as the blades and chute plates. It has nothing to hide from the competition, and I have never regretted my decision in favour of the supposedly exotic chopper," emphasises Matthias Borkowski. And the employees have nothing to criticise about the new chopping technology either. Above all, the simple operation, which is familiar from Fendt tractors, is very popular with drivers. “Many of the technical details for operation via the touchscreen terminal have been adopted from the Vario,” says Daniel Flor, who has been driving various forage harvesters for over 20 years, in praise of his new machine. The forage harvester operator is particularly pleased when he receives positive feedback from the customer at the end of the working day. And he gets that regularly, because the Fendt Katana delivers the best results in terms of cutting quality and performance during its work assignments.
Matthias Borkowski, Contractor, Germany
The Fendt Katana is a machine with which we are completely satisfied.
Ludovic Renon von der Agriculture-Travaux-et-Services-A.T.S.
From chop quality to diesel consumption to service, the Fendt Katana was the right choice.
Fitim Mehmeti, Managing Partner of M&H Agrarlogistik GmbH & Co. KG, has his feet firmly on the ground despite his young age and makes cold calculations. What counts is the price-performance ratio. And this is where the Fendt forage harvester convinced the young entrepreneur. “The power is delivered consistently and with very good diesel and AdBlue consumption values. According to an initial evaluation, we were able to reduce fuel consumption by 7 per cent compared to the previous year.” Forage harvester operator Arne Nordmann has extra praise for all the attachments: “Be it pick-up, direct cutting unit or maize cutter, the attachments can be removed quickly so that they can be cleaned.”
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