Hauling a Draper Head

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  1. SHC

    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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    Monday i am picking up a proto-type draper head from John Deere Development and taking it to Commiefornia..... anyone ever hauled these? Any tricks to securement? This is going to be a BIG one, the biggest they have made yet I was told (52' long, 9' wide and 8' high).... I'll post some pics up once I get it loaded
     
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  3. Logan76

    Logan76 Crusty In Training

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    Excuse me ignorance but what is a draper head?
     
  4. jellybean

    jellybean Medium Load Member

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    The long piece on the front of a combine that sits horizontal and does the harvesting
     
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  5. Kansas

    Kansas Road Train Member

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    Unless its something real special, they are pretty much flat on the bottom. straps, and maybe a few dunnage timbers and you should be good to go. google header trailers to see what the farmers used to haul them with. Should be really straight forward.
     
  6. Oscar the KW

    Oscar the KW Going Tarpless

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    I have grown up in Iowa my entire life and never once have I heard them called a draper head. Corn head or bean head only.
     
  7. RW.

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    http://www.deere.com/en_AU/equipment/ag/combines/platforms/600d/index.html

    The difference is that a draper head uses a conveyor belt to pull the crop into the center of the head instead of an auger. Makes it feed much smoother. I've never hauled one out of the factory myself, but most of the heads I see have the reels folded up and sitting on the trailer facing up to be narrower. Usually in pairs. But if its 9' wide, they must not be tipping it up? A 52' grain head must be massive.
     
  8. 25(2)+2

    25(2)+2 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    There isn't alot of small grain harvested for grain in Iowa, a cutting platform header was often used for what was direct cut, but for utilizing precutting the grain and allowing it to dry before the combine picked it up to thresh it, a swather was used which often had a draper head. A draper drapes the cut small grains on to a conveyor of canvas or rubberized belting after it is cut to gather it to the center where it is fed into the machine or placed on the ground to dry and later be picked up by a combine equipped with a windrow pickup head.

    From what I understand, there are advantages in capacity and less crop damage to using a draper head over a cross auger type header. It is also lighter in weight for the same width of cut.

    A bean head was adapted from a rigid platform header with a flexible cutterbar which allowed closer to the ground cutting.

    A corn head doesn't use a cutterbar but uses snapping rolls and stripper plates to snap corn ears from the shanks.

    A row crop head had points on snouts, like a corn head, but with a small cutter for each row. These were made by John Deere and were also called bean heads.

    I have been seeing heads and combines being moved on highway for years. A head as wide as the OP described wouldn't be used much except in flat land farming
     
  9. Cluck Cluck

    Cluck Cluck LTL Wizard

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    They're using flex drapers now, which are flexing platform with a high speed conveyor belt to the feeder house for gentler grain handling, I've seen the on stands shipped vertically if its just one I assume it'll be sat on your trailer as if it were on the ground, John Deere just released a 40' version, I've only ever hauled 1 and if was on a transport trailer
     
  10. Autocar

    Autocar Road Train Member

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    Although the one I hauled was not that big, the loaders will tell you how to run the chains for proper securement.
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  11. SHC

    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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    Yes, I am mostly worried about the arch in the trailer and the load. But I'm sure they will have dunnage for blocking it. Guess I'll find out Monday morning.

    Its a 45V-203 on a HT-55

    Whatever that means lol
     
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