- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Is pay more for a Macdon header worth it
Macdon
- Thread starter db9go
- Start date
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Not sure how anybody can justify the bit that goes behind it, let alone either type header.
Which is better: Real ale or Lager?
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
White wine
I thought they'd be the dogs danglies till I saw the neighbours cutting flat wheat last year one way across the tramlines!! He tried every direction and did a lot of acres like that.
No experience of them other than seeing them over the hedge on some of the big contract farming outfits in the area and thought they looked brilliant till last summer
No experience of them other than seeing them over the hedge on some of the big contract farming outfits in the area and thought they looked brilliant till last summer
trebornella
Member
Think it depends on what you grow. Standing wheat and barley, probably not, but OSR, beans and laid cereals, possibly. They undoubtably improve the feed into the machine so should improve output. I go back to late 70's when MF introduced the Powerflow and it was a game changer then.
Speedstar
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Most people with the get more output from there combine and in layed flat crops they are fantastic
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Hutterite colony next to me run three 45ft macdons. I had 150 acres of very flat canola and after my lexion was done for a couple of day the farm boss sent his man over to help out. Took an hour before he admitted he couldn’t do much with it. It wouldn’t feed but bridged the Draper belts even with the rear pea auger running. After parts arrived my claas maxflex slowly but surely took it off. I have a claas Draper head but only if the crop is stood will it out cut the auger head. In wet crops the Draper does Feed better than the auger regardless of crop
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
The power flow would be a great head in laid crops. Would like one for short light crops.