Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | Hueyag - 11/22/2024 20:25
Deere heads on the Deere and claas on the claas. 6 row heads that are both only a year old and new pickup heads. Will be doing grass corn and earlage.
The difference is pretty close on either machine, so as far as cost goes they’re pretty well equal. I currently have a small drum kemper and it hasn’t been terrible. So I’m sure I’d be very happy with either the claas or big drum Deere head I’d be upgrading to, or is the kemper that much better I should consider one if I go with the claas machine?
I do run a 608c non chopping head for cobmeal but only doing 3-400 acres a year. I seen claas has just come out with there own earlage adapter that has the rocker in it but only hookups for lexion heads which isn’t a big deal as we have converted other Deere corn head for lexion combine. The claas does have the variable header drive and the Deere has the heavy duty header drive
Probably an Orbis 450 on the Claas if it’s only a year old. I’ve never seen one in person, but they look like the center of an Orbis 600 with a couple small drums on the outside rather than big drums. Probably work fine, not worth arranging to get a Kemper for it instead.
I also have not seen the new Claas earlage adapter. Hopefully they did a better job designing it than was done on the RCI adapter that JD briefly offered as their OEM approved solution for earlage. It is indeed no big deal to convert a Jd 600 series head for Claas hookups (I’ve done three), but putting it on the JD with a Kooima adaptor will still be easier and the hydraulics will be plug and play once you extend the hoses. Row guidance won’t work though, unless they’ve fixed that compatibility issue lately.
I really don’t think you can go wrong with either color.
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Which harvester would be better?
