It works quite well and I saved a lot of money over the cost of a new machine." The 21-ft.
"I decided to mount the Deere grain head on the Hesston running gear. I didn't want to spend the money to fix either machine," says Egli. And the engine was bad in my Deere 800 self-propelled swather equipped with a 21-ft. "My Hesston 1014 hydroswing swather equipped with a 14-ft. He uses it to cut wheat and barley crops. Dak., took two broken-down machines and made one that worked - a hydroswing swather equipped with a 21-ft. Deere Grain Head SWATHERS Swathers 26-2-4 Edwin Egli, New Salem, N.
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58563 (ph 701 843-7380 E-mail: here to download page story appeared in. Egli, 4825 County Road 139, New Salem, N. gate."Ĭontact: FARM SHOW Followup, Edwin G. wide but with the hydraswing I can fit it through a 16-ft. It's much easier to get around with a hydraswing swather than with a conventional pull-type swather. I use one for the swing and one for the lift. The reel is raised and lowered by the original hydraulic pump off the Deere swather.
The orbit motor is used to chain-drive the head. He removed the pto-driven orbit motor from the Hesston hay head and mounted it on the grain head, replacing the original hydraulic hoses with longer ones. wider than the original hay head, I can drive the tractor between the standing crop and the windrow instead of straddling the windrow, which I had to do with the hay head," says Egli. to the front part of the pole, which puts the grain head out farther to the side. Deere grain head was much taller than the original Hesston hay head so it would've interfered with the hydroswing pole. It works quite well and I saved a lot of money over the cost of a new machine." In 2000, as part of the merger of Case IH with New Holland to form CNH Global, AGCO bought out Case IH in the joint venture.ĪGCO has since moved the manufacturing of all AGCO combines and hay tools in North America to Hesston, so Gleaner, Challenger, Massey Ferguson and formerly New Idea combines and hay tools are all manufactured along-side Hesston-branded equipment.Īround 2010, AGCO has moved Hesston to be a sub-brand, with swathers and hay tools branded as Hesston by AGCO and malfunction Hesston, and in South America, Valtra Hesston and Agco-Allis Hesston. They produced Hesston and Case IH branded equipment at that time. AGCO entered into a 50/50 joint venture with Case IH to produce hay tools, and renamed the Hesston facility Hay & Forage Industries. In 1991, the hay tools and skid-steer loader portion of the business was purchased by AGCO, and the tractors were discontinued. Hay tools, self-propelled windrowers and skid-steer loaders were manufactured in Hesston, KS and sold in Europe and other parts of the world. In 1977, Fiat purchased an interest in Hesston, and began importing Fiat tractors under the Hesston brand. The company specialized in farm equipment, including self-propelled windrowers and the StakHand hay harvester. In 1947, Lyle Yost founded Hesston Manufacturing Co. Agriculture machinery- swathers formerly forage harvesters, tractors, skid loaders