Combines Harvester and Headers
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tractors, combines, harvester, headers, trailers, trucks, utility vehicle and many other equipment
for sale every day. Combines can be used for many different crops, they are equipped with removable heads (headers), and these are for particular crops. A platform header or the most common name grain platform is the standard header; this has a reciprocating knife cutter bar and has the added feature of a revolving reel having plastic or metal teeth. |  |
The function of this device is for the cut crop to fall into the head by use of the cross auger, pulling the crop into the throat. This is used for many different crops including grains and legumes.
John Deere 6600 Combine 2wd |
- | $1,500.00 | |
John Deere 404 Engine |
6 | $645.00 | |
International 436 Engine |
4 | $1,000.00 | |
2003 Challenger 660 |
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$155,000.00 | |
2007 Krone Big XV12 |
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$300,000.00 | |
2004 Claas Cutter 900 |
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$290,000.00 |
The combine harvester, or simply combine, also known as a thresher is a machine that combines the tasks of harvesting, threshing, and cleaning grain crops. The objective is the harvest of the crop; corn (maize), soybeans, flax (linseed), oats, wheat, or rye among others). The waste straw left behind on the field is the remaining dried stems and leaves of the crop with limited nutrients which is either chopped and spread on the field or baled for feed and bedding for livestock.
Combines are equipped with removable heads (called headers) that are designed for particular crops. The standard header, sometimes called a grain platform (or platform header), is equipped with a reciprocating knife cutter bar, and features a revolving reel with metal or plastic teeth to cause the cut crop to fall into the head. A cross auger then pulls the crop into the throat. The grain header is used for many crops including grains and legumes.
Wheat headers are similar except that the reel is not equipped with teeth. Some wheat headers, called "draper" headers, use a fabric or rubber apron instead of a cross auger. Draper headers allow faster feeding than cross augers, leading to higher throughputs. In high yielding European crops, such headers have no advantage, as the limiting factor becomes grain separation. On many farms, platform headers are used to cut wheat, instead of separate wheat headers, so as to reduce overall costs.
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