Kit Adapts Corn Heads To Forage Choppers

Kit Adapts Corn Heads To Forage Choppers COMBINES Headers 6-3-36 Business is booming for a Nebraska firm which specializes in a special adapter kit for mounting Deere and other brand ear corn heads on forage choppers for harvesting high moisture ear corn silage. "Our kits let you choose exactly the head you want, or you can use the head from your combine on a Uni System," explains Jim Lindquist, owner of Lindquist Welding and Supply, Giltner, Neb. Although the kit will adapt most makes of headers to most any type of pull type or self-propelled forage harvester, the popular choice is Deere's corn header, originally designed to fit any of the New Generation Deere combines. With Lindquist's adapter kit, you can mount the Deere header on your forage chopper. "Other companies offer ear corn heads but they gravity feed and, for the most part, don't work as well as the Deere unit and our adapter kit. Our combination provides constant control of the harvested material from the head to the chopper," explains Lindquist. He notes that most owners of self-propelled choppers are using the kit to mount Deere's 4-row header. "We have gone to 6 row headers on Hesston's self-propelled, and up to 8 rows on New Holland's big new 2100. For pull-type choppers, 3 row headers are the limit. Our adapters are available to mount Deere, IH, Massey, New Idea and White combine snapper heads on Hesston, New Holland, Fox and New Idea pull-type and self-propelled forage harvesters. New Idea dealers are using our line of adapters to mount other brand heads on the Uni-System machines, or the New Idea 800 series heads on other brand harvesters to reduce inventory," explains Lindquist. "We offer a complete line of adapters to mount Deere, IH, Allis Chalmers, Massey and White combine snapper heads and platforms on the Uni-Harvester line of equipment. We also provide adapters to mount New Idea series 800 snapper heads on Allis, Massey, IH and New Holland combines." For more details, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Lindquist Welding & Supply, Box 37, Giltner, Neb. 68841 (ph 402 849-2264).

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