Home-Built 26-Ft. Draper Head

Home-Built 26-Ft. Draper Head COMBINES Headers 26-1-10 Brian Haubrich, Glenbain, Sask., made a 26-ft. draper header out of a used Co-op 626 swather and the center part out of an old International Harvester 914 header. He uses it on his International Harvester 1420 combine to harvest durum, peas, lentils, and mustard crops. "I paid $3,500 for the swather, $200 for the 914 header, and spent about $500 for bearings, sprockets and welding rods. Now I've got myself a header that compares with commercial ones that sell for about $25,000," says Haubrich. He cut the 12-ft. 914 header down to 6 ft., keeping the center part of the auger and a 48-in. length of canvas, as well as the header mounting brackets. He cut out the center part of the swather's auger and then welded in the 914 header auger. The auger and swather reel are both belt-driven off the combine feederhouse via a homemade system of belts and pulleys. He used steel tubing to reinforce the header mounting brackets. "I made it four years ago and really like it," says Haubrich. "The one problem is that the 48-in. length of center canvas isn't quite long enough. Some of the crop coming off one canvas tends to go under the opposite one, rather than onto the feeder chain. If I could do it over again I'd find a way to get two canvases in the center and make the whole center area wider." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Brian Haubrich, Box 21, Glenbain, Sask., Canada S0N 0X0 (ph 306 264-3809).

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