CONSISTENTLY CLOSE SHAVE

MacDon draper headers feature MacDon’s unique C-shaped cutterbar, which permits cutting at ground level for the most consistently clean shave of your fields. This close cutting ability combined with the reel’s ability to maintain a consistent relationship with the sickle (allowing it to gently lift the crop like a comb) means improved crop recovery in crop that is downed, lodged or tangled.

EFFICIENT POWER TRANSFER

MacDon draper headers feature a highly efficient mechanical drive system for optimal power transfer to sickle. This sickle drive system features MacDon’s exclusive, enclosed oil bath wobble box which operates at a standard single sickle speed of 1,050 to 1,400 SPM or double sickle speed of 1,200 to 1,700 SPM (varies depending on combine brand and model).

CA20 COMBINE ADAPTER

This specially designed adapter allows you to mount MacDon draper headers on to your combine. Its highly effective float system employs coil springs to provide exceptional lateral and vertical flotation over rolling and uneven terrain. The CA20’s auto-header-height with header angle and ground pressure indicators allows the header to automatically adjust flotation to ground conditions, eliminating the need for the operator to make constant adjustments. The CA20 also features MacDon’s exclusive Feed Auger with retracting fingers which provides more aggressive pulling of the crop and improved heads-first crop flow which substantially reduces the likelihood of bunching. With the push of a button, the Feed Auger with retracting fingers reverses with the feed draper to allow for quick and easy unplugging of the feeder house.

SMOOTHER, GENTLER, MORE EFFICIENT FEEDING WITH NO “DEAD TRIANGLE”

Because they have no auger, MacDon draper headers have no “dead triangle”, like auger headers, where crop can hesitate and cause bunching and plugging, thus ensuring substantially smoother heads-first crop flow into your combine’s feeder house. Heads-first feeding promotes peak combine efficiency, saving fuel, improving threshing action and potentially reducing maintenance costs. Gentler feeding is also beneficial for minimizing seed loss and maximizing crop recovery in delicate crops like grass seeds, edible beans and soybeans, or when crops are dry and fragile.

ADVANCED DRAPER TECHNOLOGY

MacDon’s advanced draper technology delivers positive draper tracking under even the most adverse crop conditions. A full 41.6 in. (1057 mm) in width for improved feeding of tall, heavy crops, the drapers are rubber skim-coated with V-guides on both the edges now making it reversible to provide double the draper life on D60 and FD70 models.

SWITCH FROM FLEX TO RIGID IN SECONDS

One of the great advantages of the FD70 FlexDraper® is its ability to switch from flex to rigid with a simple and quick flip of a lever. Producers can switch from cutting wheat and rice to cutting specialty crops and soybeans in seconds giving you expanded productivity. Many producers can now do all of their harvesting with just one header.

UNIQUE FLEXING ACTION

The FD70 also features MacDon’s exclusive parabolic reel design, which helps ensure a consistent close relationship between the cutterbar and the reel over the entire length of the header. This in turn produces more even crop feeding and significantly reduced wear and breakage to the reel’s fingers.

View the FD70 in action

MacDon’s three-section concept is as simple in design as it is effective in execution. It is based on the principle that flex headers only became necessary when they got wider than 17.5 feet (5.3 m), because anything less can handle most ground contours. As such, MacDon FlexDrapers are similar to running three smaller headers together, all 17.5 feet (5.3 m) or under. This unique flexing action allows the header to maintain a consistently close relationship between the knife and the reel, even in maximum flex. The result is the most flexible header yet, with wing float and flex capabilities that greatly exceed the range of float on flexible cutterbars found on conventional flex headers. You have to see it to believe it.

POLY SKIDS

For muddy harvesting conditions, or crops like soybeans, rice, lentils and edible beans poly skids permit smoother traveling of the cutterbar over the ground, and reduces the likelihood of mud building up on the cutterbar.

HYDRAULIC FORE-AFT REEL POSITIONER

Adjust the reel position to changing crop and field conditions on-the-go from the cab.