Hartwig
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- Location
- Scheggerott, Germany
A french company builts these sort of pickup-headers as well and I thought that must be the real solution for any harvesting problems with peas. A local contractor had one and I got him in for combining my peas.
It was a wet harvest and my loamy ground is not nice for this header as it has no cutterbar, it has to pull up the plant and there`s always sticking a little wet loam which can`t be sieved off as the construction is meant for. Result was that it took him two afternoons to combine 10 ha with a big Lexion and his mechanic with him to help out because elevators blocked regularly, unloading auger blocked with broken chains, etc.
It was just a nightmare. But a great header if it`s dry and/or on sandy soil that can be sieved off.
It was a wet harvest and my loamy ground is not nice for this header as it has no cutterbar, it has to pull up the plant and there`s always sticking a little wet loam which can`t be sieved off as the construction is meant for. Result was that it took him two afternoons to combine 10 ha with a big Lexion and his mechanic with him to help out because elevators blocked regularly, unloading auger blocked with broken chains, etc.
It was just a nightmare. But a great header if it`s dry and/or on sandy soil that can be sieved off.