Home-Built Header Cart "Better Than Factory-Built"

Home-Built Header Cart "Better Than Factory-Built" COMBINES Headers 21-5-11 Mike Fenske built a combine header cart for a fraction of what a commercial rig costs and it works better than some factory-built rigs, he says. "Some of the commercial carts I've looked at cost as much as $2,000. Even after-market kits cost as much as $400 and you still have to supply the running gear," says the Burlington, Wis., farmer. "I built mine for under $500, including a running gear we had around which I valued at $300." The running gear came from a rusted out gravity box. He used schedule 40 pipe to ex-tend the reach 10 ft. in order to hold the 17 1/ 2-ft. grain table for his 1660 Case-IH combine. He built the header support out of pipe he had around the farm. "Pipe doesn't snag and bend sickle guards the way the channel iron used on some commercial units and after-market kits does," Fenske notes. He used a set of used 15-in. radial tires off his pickup for the tires on the cart. The carts could be built for any model or size header, he says. He's willing to build them for others if there's interest. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Mike Fenske, 8108-368 Ave., Burlington, Wis. 53105 (ph 414 537-4619).

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