Jimmy Ellis from SunSouth Brundage compares Ambraco and aftermarket net wrap for John Deere balers. Ambraco's Tamatech technology reduces damage to baler rollers and improves efficiency, while cheaper aftermarket options can cause equipment wear and costly repairs.
My name is Jimmy Ellis. I'm a service technician with SunSouth Brundage. I actually been working on John Deere equipment since 1973, but I've been with SunSouth since they took over the dealership here in Brundage. And I'm here today to talk to you a little bit about the difference in Umbraco and aftermarket net route. Okay. So today we're going to talk a little bit about a baler that come in and some of the damage that maybe some other manufacturer's net ralph has caused to the baler. To start with, we'll talk a little bit about the damage that we got. The damage we got is on the stainless steel roller. And the reason for that is we'll have to talk a little bit about how net routes manufactured. What we first need to talk about, there's a thing called Fronzes, which is the big strand in the direction of the roll and the sush, which is the small strand that holds the fronzies in place on the net route. Okay. Aftermarket can't meet the production standard of the Umbraco, which is called Tamatech technology. And what that causes, it causes high spots on the net wrap road, which demonstrate that we're going to look. High spots is caused when you have to add material to get strength, which if you notice along the end of the square, it's sitting uneven and on the flat side, it's up even with the square. That's true on both sides. Not so much on this side as is the other side, but it's, it's there. And if you look on the stainless steel roller one more time, those hot spots are where we got these issues. Now, some of these issues is caused by not cleaning the brush, but not all. This side actually has more damage than the left side. Now, like I said, Umbraco uses a different technology which allow them to put less material, which causes less high spots. And if you notice along the square, both sides set and square and even, which allow us to feed better with less roll pressure to properly adjust this baler to run this roll of net route, which never, hardly ever gets done, you would have to lessen the roll pressure to account for. For the more material, the thicker material and the more abrasiveness and the friction. All net route is made if you pull it, if you pull it from the side, it has no strength. Okay. And once you. It has strength in this rolling direction. That's from the Fronzi right here. Just for demonstration on the. And it's a demonstration only it's just to show that nothing has strength from side to side. It's always in the direction of travel. Okay. With the. With the Tampa TEC technology, we're able to build a more footage with less material, which are roll's not as big, it's not as heavy as some of the vendor net routes. So really and truly, this baler, this baler's got to have a stainless steel roller. Cause the customer was having problems with net wrap wrapping the stainless steel and rubber roller. And he was also having problem with rips and tears. So that's probably in reality and money. That's a $2,000 roller. The wrap up today, everything affects bottom line and efficiency. So if you can pay a few more dollars, roll a net that's designed to run in a John Deere baler, then that's probably the thing to do to make your operation more efficient. And if you need more information on net route, just talk to me, Jimmy or Travis at Sun,000 Brundage. We can feed you in on some of the manufacturing processes and the benefit to the Umbraco technology that's put into the net route.
