3-Pt. Header Transport
After years of looking around for a commercial 3-pt. header transport, my son and I finally designed one ourselves and had a neighbor build it for us. I use it to handle a 16-ft. grain head and a 6-row narrow corn head. I've always had a problem moving my various combine heads around and storing them. I never had a good way to get a head into a corner for better storage until we built this transport 5 years ago.
We use a 120 hp tractor to transport our heads. The unit is built out of heavy tube steel with a U-shaped piece running across the top - with the outside lip welded on at an angle so that it slants outward. You just back up to the header and slip the lift frame into the feederhouse opening on the back side of the header. The U-shaped piece slips over the feederhouse crossbar and then you just lift with the tractor 3-pt. to pick up the head.
The uprights on the header mover are adjustable in length - we adjust it manually but it's built so we could install cylinders and make adjustments hydraulically - so we can raise headers higher, when needed, to place them on our mobile header transport. It also comes in handy when we are doing custom work and our header transport is loaded already. We can get a different head with the tractor and bring it to the field faster than we could travel down the road with a combine. We're looking for a manufacturer. (Art Petke, Jr., N13083 RiverAve., Withee, Wis. 54498 ph 715 229-2035)
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3-Pt. Header Transport COMBINES Headers 18-1-37 After years of looking around for a commercial 3-pt. header transport, my son and I finally designed one ourselves and had a neighbor build it for us. I use it to handle a 16-ft. grain head and a 6-row narrow corn head. I've always had a problem moving my various combine heads around and storing them. I never had a good way to get a head into a corner for better storage until we built this transport 5 years ago.
We use a 120 hp tractor to transport our heads. The unit is built out of heavy tube steel with a U-shaped piece running across the top - with the outside lip welded on at an angle so that it slants outward. You just back up to the header and slip the lift frame into the feederhouse opening on the back side of the header. The U-shaped piece slips over the feederhouse crossbar and then you just lift with the tractor 3-pt. to pick up the head.
The uprights on the header mover are adjustable in length - we adjust it manually but it's built so we could install cylinders and make adjustments hydraulically - so we can raise headers higher, when needed, to place them on our mobile header transport. It also comes in handy when we are doing custom work and our header transport is loaded already. We can get a different head with the tractor and bring it to the field faster than we could travel down the road with a combine. We're looking for a manufacturer. (Art Petke, Jr., N13083 RiverAve., Withee, Wis. 54498 ph 715 229-2035)
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