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Mac Don draper head -single knife or double knife?
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Detroit
Posted 7/11/2024 17:18 (#10806903 - in reply to #10806884)
Subject: RE: Mac Don draper head -single knife or double knife?


Crawfordsville, Arkansas
AGB - 7/11/2024 15:53

Detroit - 7/11/2024 14:34

AGB - 7/11/2024 08:11

jd4930 - 7/11/2024 09:06

Kinda my thoughts, that's a 30 minutes breakdown if you have parts on hand, we always kept a few splices on hand for cases like that

I had no parts and sunday.


Always carry a splice kit. Always.

I prefer the double drive on a draper. In down wet rice it is the only thing that will effectively go through it unless you have a Isbell bar setup and even then I would still want a double knife.

If you buy a draper, carry a belt splice kit in your service truck. Invaluable when you need it and they are cheap compared to a new belt or trying to zip tie or glue a belt back together.

I might now but it's the first sickle I've broken in 20 years. Not something I've thought about. I've got a pile of other crap but not that.


Not much to the kit. It’s not expensive either. I know guys who go to Deere every morning and buy a handful of sickle sections and bolts, just enough to get them through the day. I wasn’t that guy. I wanted enough spare parts to fix most anything. 30-40 mile one way trips to town to get parts wasn’t going to work. Every combine was stocked with the right tools and parts to fix the stuff on the header. The service truck was stocked with a “combine box” that we loaded up each fall. Draper splice kits, boxes of sickles, boxes of guards, spare poly pieces, and so on.
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