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Roann In. | Rather ironic, we were contacted earlier this week by the local BTO and his Deere dealer about some issues with a new 40' Flex Draper. The operator, owner, was field testing a Mac Don and a Deere at the same time in the same field and the Deere was having issues leaving allot of bean in the field. As mentioned above, where the 2 draper belts meet was a large issue (trail of beans through the field). However, the main area of concern with this operator was the beans rolling off of the platform and back in the field. There is nothing like a dam (as it were) to prevent the beans that shatter from rolling off of the front of the platform and back out in the field. And as a result of the design, really no place to mount a hose or "bean saver" to that area. These were dry beans and he was having a great deal of shatter at the sickle. That being said, the Deere was going to replace all of the "long-long" sections with the "short-long" to hopefully eliminate the problem. When we left, the Mac Don was going to be his header of choice. The Deere DID and does flex allot more as talked about above..............however, the loss of beans was not going to make up for the flex in his mind. | |
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Deere VS MacDon flex drapers
