Rugged, ground-hugging header for rice
Few crops are as difficult to harvest as rice. It is tough, abrasive, and yields run high. In addition, you’re often harvesting in extremely wet ground conditions. These challenges lead to tough combining with conventional equipment.
The Honey Bee Rice Belt header speeds up harvest with features that allow it to hug the ground for faster, easier harvesting, eliminating the twisting and tangling problems associated with conventional auger headers. Using a proven draper-and-auger feeding system, the Honey Bee Rice Belt Header uniformly feeds the crop heads first, providing consistent harvest speeds, superior threshing and better harvest efficiency.
Features
Knife Drive
The knife is driven by a 3 5/16″ (8.4 cm) stroke, epicyclic knife drive which ranges from 1,284–1,400 strokes per minute (depending on make of combine), eliminating fore/aft movement. The knife drive is driven by a low maintenance hydraulic drive motor. Optional double knife drive systems are available.
Double Reel Drive
The hydraulically driven reel is easily controlled using standard in-cab controls allowing for quick reel adjustment in changing crop conditions.
Deck and Feed Auger
Fasten your seat belt. The 68″ (172.7 cm) centre deck combined with the 72″ (182.9 cm) feed auger with retractable fingers smoothly feeds the crop into the feeder housing without twisting or tangling. A hinged door under the centre deck allows easy cleaning of foreign material like rocks and roots that might jam the feeder.