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NWIL | My experience with Honeybees, in very rocky small grains country.
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Solid as can be, I think one could mow down trees and not bend the frame. I've seen one take out a telephone pole and once the power company showed up and got the lines off the machine the guy drove off, hammered back two bats, and started cutting again.
Feed well for the most part, sometimes they plug but usually thats caused by an issue started earlier in the process, not the feed drum.
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Leaf spring floatation sucks, much prefer the coils on MDs. When running side by side, the HBs sure scoop a lot more dirt and bust up more sections since there is no spring back.
In later years the hydraulic systems were crap, at least after dual drives started being used. Stalling knives was out of hand, new sections, relief valves, oil, you name it, nothing helped. You should be ok with a 2001 model year, the single drives were a lot better.
SCH cutterbar gave a lot more trouble and seemed much higher maintenance then the MD cutterbar. Combines carried a LOT of spare parts on them. Knife splices were bought by the dozen.
MD cutterbar, even with the rigid models, will get down on the ground much better. Sure can cut peas and lodged wheat with a MD much cleaner.
I prefer the MD flip over reel over the UII that HB uses. The latter really can start throwing straw around at times and doesn't control lodged stuff going over the knife nearly as well.
Now the past few years you hardly see any HBs out there at all.
Edited by j.p 1/8/2014 18:25
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Are Honeybee headers any good?
