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Fancy Drago corn head question, ever seen one?

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OliverGuy

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I dropped off my corn and bean meters to get run today and
asked a few questions, they are also a Drago dealer. He says
it will save me 4-7 bushels over my good ole 1063 CIH corn
head. Anybody have any real experience with these? How
good are they. I'll be keeping my head I'm pretty sure. A used
6 row was in the mid $30's.
 
We have several of them at the breeding station I work at. Got one in the shop right now getting its annual preventative maintenance. very well built very heavy too.
 
We use them at my workplace. The design idea of a flatter running header is great and it does do well in standing corn by the stripper plates and gathering chains running so flat that ears will not roll out of the header.

They seem to be durable.

My only complaint is that due to the sharp edges on the snoots down stalks pile on the snoots. A reel would be totally necessary even in moderately lodged corn. The rounded poly snoots of Deere/case/new holland have an advantage in that aspect.

Why don't the big manufacturers not make flatter running headers? It only makes sense,
 
I have sold them and used them. You only will get that kind of savings if you are in 200 bushel plus corn and want to run 6 MPH or more. Even then it is only if you do not have your CIH/ JD corn head adjusted correctly.

I was at a Drago dealer intro 5-6 years ago. They had JD and CIH corn heads on machines running with Drago heads right next to them. You could see a big difference with the Drago doing a better job. The Drago area rep got all PO at me when I climbed up in the JD 9670 and adjusted the stripper plates/roll speed correctly and the JD head did just as good of job as the Drago. They had deliberately set the plates too wide so the JD head was leaving more corn. When it was set right the only advantage the Drago head had was it shredded the stalks. That option is not available on JD heads at that time is is now. I am sure they where setting the CIH corn head to have a loss too. The later series CIH heads are real similar to the JD heads and they work fine.

You can't justify the cost if you have your corn head adjusted correctly.
 
maybe you guys are running the heads too low. all you need is the ear. doing down corn is the only time i worry about ears going the wrong way.
 
Best of the best as far as chopping corn heads go. If you have high yields with todays hybrids, you usually have heavy residue. That can be a big issue with reduced tillage or no till. Also, Drago makes a very efficient. practical folding head which cuts travel time (over transporting head on wagon) That can be a big time saver if you have a number of smaller fields.
 
I prefer Geringhoff after using both. They'll be making them in St. Cloud, MN once the plant is ready. High quality German product. Drago is Italian I think.
 
JD is right on. In normal harvesting conditions Deere and IH heads can easily do a good job. The quality of the job depends on the operator of the combine. When the corn is down or the soil conditions vary so the corn in the low spots has big stalks and ears and the corn in the high sandy areas has small spindly stalks and ears, one particular brand of head might have an advantage over another. We have run a Fantini chopping head for the past several years and it does a fantastic job of chopping the stubble but in my opinion that's their only strong point. Jim
 
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