Honey Bee lives to make harvests faster. Starting with an understanding of material flow into a combine, Honey Bee has engineered a superior straight-cut header. Built on a design that moves the crop smoothly to the feeder housing, the Grain Belt Header defines harvest efficiency.
With low maintenance features such as an oversized oil cooling reservoir and heavy duty 3/16" (.48 cm) tubular steel header mainframe, the Grain Belt Header is designed to last. Add in Honey Bee’s reputation for well-built, dependable equipment, and you’ll have a lot more harvest time on your hands.
The Honey Bee Grain Belt Header improves combine efficiency by eliminating the twisting and tangling problems associated with conventional auger headers — problems that can result in poor combine performance, higher fuel costs and lower grain quality.
Using drapers and a unique feed auger, the Honey Bee Grain Belt Header uniformly feeds the crop heads first into the combine, providing constant harvest speeds, superior threshing and less down time. Depending on the crop, you can increase combine capacity by as much as 20 percent.
The Grain Belt Header not only ensures proper feeding of cereal crops, but also dramatically improves feeding of bulky crops like peas and mustard.
the Honey Bee Grain Belt Header
The header has excellent floatation and ground hugging capability. Lateral and vertical leaf spring suspension allows the header to float independently of the combines OEM accumulator floatation system. You’ll put more crop through the combine, leave less in the field, and reduce rock damage to your cutting system.
UHMW skid plates are standard on all models to
protect the cutterbar when cutting crops close to
the ground.
The hydraulically driven reel is easily controlled using
standard in-cab controls. In-cab controls allow for quick
reel adjustment in changing crop conditions.
Draper speeds are hydraulically controlled
and adjustable. Independent control over
the drapers gives you the power to move
heavy material smoothly and efficiently.
Drapers are made of long-lasting, rubberized
polyester with fibreglass reinforced slats and
tie bar connectors. The v-guided drapers
are standard 42” (106.7 cm) width.
The 3” (7.6 cm) diameter drive rollers
provide traction in heavy crop conditions.
Powered from the outside by a hydraulic
motor, the drapers move the crop towards
the centre for more uniform feeding.
The canvas can be adjusted for tracking and
tightening, which allows even tension on
both the front and rear of the rollers. A quick
release lever allows for ease of canvas and
roller cleaning.
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.
A slip clutch on the feed auger disengages to prevent damage caused by foreign material running through the combine.
A PTO driveline powers
two hydraulic pumps
which are mounted to a
step-up gear box that drives the
feed auger. The step-up gear box is
lubricated with oil supplied from the
header hydraulics.
Vertically adjustable with a jack
and compression spring loaded
with rubber spring suspension.
The castoring design eliminates
gouging when turning.
A hydraulic adjustment with in-cab
control is available for fore/aft
positioning for on-the-go response
to changing crop conditions with a
16” operating range.
The independent hydraulic system allows you to
easily fit the Grain Belt Header to any combine. If you
change combines, you can switch the header to the
new combine simply by changing the adapter.
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.
Allows for easy towing
of your combine header
behind a pickup truck or
combine. Easily transport
your header through gates
and down narrow roads.
No-wrench tilt adjustment allows you to set
the platform at the best angle to perform in
all crops — short, tall, bulky or sparse.
No-wrench header tilt adjustment for control
in varying crop conditions.
Hydraulic drive cross augers
assist in material flow from
the drapers to the feed auger.
The auger is adjustable to match varying
crop conditions and increases combine
capacity in bulky crops like peas and
mustard. Augers are ‘size’ specific.
The SCH Easy Cut Cutting System provides
smooth, superior cutting. Spring steel guards,
with cutting edges on top and bottom,
along with alternating, bolted, heat treated
sections, eliminate the need for hold downs.
The system keeps dirt and debris from
accumulating under the knives for increased
performance in severe cutting conditions.
For increased performance in heavy cutting
conditions, the Crary Guard is an option for
the SCH Knife.
Hitch, jack and axle combination allows
header to be stored and transported
when not in use.
The self contained integral
transport including hitch, jack
and axle are conveniently
stored on the header table.
