Farming Video | Demco Hopper Extensions Boost Harvest Efficiency for Chad Henderson & Johnny Verell

19 Aug 252m 19s

When it comes to getting more out of every pass, small tweaks can make a big impact. Just ask Chad Henderson of XtremeAg, who stopped by Johnny Verell’s place and spotted a smart upgrade that's saving time during harvest: Demco hopper extensions.

These bolt-on add-ons give your combine an extra 50 bushels of grain capacity, which can be the difference between making it to the end of the row or spilling grain. Chad explains that they’re easy to install—just a couple guys and a few hours—and they hold up well through multiple machines and seasons.

Not only do they help reduce grain loss, but they also improve efficiency for the grain cart operator, giving them a bit more time to make the turn and get back. The profile stays lower than factory options too, meaning fewer worries about tree limbs and overhead clearance.

In Chad’s words: "It’s one of the few things you can buy that’s really worth the money." If you’re looking to cut downtime and keep your harvest flowing, this simple combine upgrade is worth a look.

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00:00:00 Hey y'all, this is Chad Henderson with Extreme Ag. I'm here at Johnny Brass Place and I walked by this machine and man it has this Demco extension on it. 00:00:07 And I was like, yes, yes. I said, and the first thing I asked him was, do they make 'em bigger? 00:00:12 Yeah. You know, we always want a little more, farmers Always want more. And you know, we were at Demco 00:00:16 and we were talking to 'em one day and they're like, we got hopper extensions. I was like, well if they're not hard to put on, I'll try. 00:00:21 So we bought a couple sets, brought 'em back, we put 'em on. We don't have 'em on every machine. Yeah, we should. 00:00:26 It's just one of 'em deals. We always say we're going to, we just haven't done it yet. But honestly we're probably fixing to get some. So 00:00:31 When you talk about putting one these on two To three hours Yeah, it's, it's not bad. It takes a couple guys. The hardest thing is remember 00:00:36 'em we trade every year. Yeah. Had to take 'em back off then you gotta remember how they go. But they literally bolted right on the next size combine. 00:00:42 Didn't have any issues there. Yeah. It adds another 50 bushel and it just makes things a lot easier. 00:00:47 'cause you always can almost, Almost get to the end and it always runs off the corners. You know, you're sitting there and you almost made it 00:00:52 to the end and all of a sudden it starts raining off and once it starts it's thick. Well, I really like about the Demco is the, 00:00:58 is the simplicity of it. You fold up just like you normally do. Yeah. You don't have to get out and touch nothing. 00:01:03 You don't take anything out of being, everything Drops in, folds in on top of itself and you're done. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, we'll take these back off, 00:01:08 put 'em on the next combine. We're gonna get some more order for the other combines. 'cause it really does make a big difference. 00:01:13 We, you don't realize it until you forget to put 'em on One. Well, you know, when you're in the corn field 00:01:18 and you know you're going and the headers keep getting bigger, the capacity machines gets bigger and we just need to get to the end, 00:01:23 you know, and it's amazing. A lot of times it's just right there. That's right. And you can't get to it, but it really helps the economics 00:01:29 because it frees that grain cart man up for 50 more bushels, you know, to get back to you. Yeah. Um, 00:01:34 And it adds a lot of, I mean, 50 more bushel on a combine this size. Yeah. That's a Lot more. Well I mean it's, 00:01:39 it's, we're talking about almost 10%. Right? That's Right. You know, it adds up at the end of the day 00:01:43 and it's one of the few things that you could buy that I think is really worth the money. Yeah. You know, we talk about how sometimes you buy things 00:01:48 that cost more than you think or it's harder to do. These really are like they say, So these has probably been on what, three machines. 00:01:53 Yeah. You know, so that's good. That's Good. It's good. And like I said, they, they last, you know, 00:01:58 you got limbs, all that stuff pulls on them. Nothing happens. What I do like is they keep the profile just a little bit lower than the deer factory profile in the 00:02:05 wings, so you don't have to worry about the tree limbs. So Yep. They thought a lot of things through, they didn't get too big where you'd have issues. 00:02:10 They got it figured out. Yep. 00:02:12.445 --> 00:02:13.085

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