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Header-Mounted Combine Dust Vacuum
Last fall you published a story about our prototype header-mounted combine dust vacuum (Vol. 17, No. 5) that mounts on the feederhouse opening to remove dust from the header and discharge it to the side of the combine behind the header. It was originally designed for our New Holland combine. However, we got so many pho
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Header-Mounted Combine Dust Vacuum COMBINES Accessories 18-2-34 Last fall you published a story about our prototype header-mounted combine dust vacuum (Vol. 17, No. 5) that mounts on the feederhouse opening to remove dust from the header and discharge it to the side of the combine behind the header. It was originally designed for our New Holland combine. However, we got so many phone calls from your readers that we decided to build a version for Deere 9500 and 9600 combines and we recently exhibited it at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kent.
Our unit is unlike other dust dividers on the market because it sucks dust off the header rather than out of the feederhouse. The mechanically-driven unit uses a fan to blow chaff through a hose to the rear of the combine and onto a chaff tray, where it falls onto the chaff spreaders. It's chain-driven by the feederhouse shaft that drives the header auger. It's virtually maintenance-free be-cause there's no hydraulics to create heat. The hinged shroud can be flipped up for access to the header auger in case it plugs up. Sells for under $3,000, including chaffer tray. (Wade Little, Box 44, Decker, Manitoba, Canada ROM OKO ph 204 562-3538)
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