AutodDock: Combine Header Change in Less Than 30 seconds
11 Nov 242m 13s

We take a look at the Fendt IDEAL combine's AutoDock feature that promises to effortlessly connect hydraulics and electronics by simply pressing a button in less than 30 seconds.

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00:00:00 Alright, we're here at Temple Roads Farm in Maryland, and one of the main features of this fent Ideal eight T combine is auto dock. 00:00:08 We've got some really cool demonstrations going on. TJ Hamilton explained to me what happens when this comes up to the, uh, grain head cart 00:00:17 and now it saves a lot of labor for him. A lot of potential fights he doesn't have to have because this all does this mechanically. 00:00:24 And you don't have to get out here and handle putting a shaft together. These hydraulics, these electronics. 00:00:28 Yep. So you're gonna roll up to your header, you're gonna raise up your feeder house. It's gonna hook on here. Once it's up off the cart, 00:00:36 you push the button in there for the auto dock to happen. This cylinder right here is going to extend out. 00:00:42 It's gonna push your drive shaft over to connect to the drive shaft on the head, as well as move your single point over. 00:00:48 So all of your electronics and hydraulics are all hooked up from that point. Uh, once that is sensed that it's all connected, 00:00:55 it will run the head very slowly in a creep mode. Just for a second for everything to latch on in here. Mm-Hmm. Once That's good. 00:01:01 You get the check mark. You're good to go. I saw this right here, which is where your, your PTO, if you will, comes over the hammer on both sides. 00:01:07 That simple. I can easily understand how it works. Hooking up a hydraulic, uh, line without doing it by hand seems a little bit more difficult for me to believe. 00:01:16 Well, they, a lot of the combines now, they have a single point and it's made so two connections just run 00:01:21 right together and you clamp 'em down. But you have to physically get outta the combine and clamp 'em down. 00:01:25 This is all done doing it hydraulically and doing it ahead of time. This whole procedure is tj, what is it? 00:01:31 Less than 30 seconds? Yes. Yep. It works fast. It works efficiently. And the best thing about it is it's safe. 00:01:37 You don't have to have a guy in here getting ready to hook you up. We've dropped these headers multiple times. 00:01:42 If you drop this header, nobody's gonna be standing here. Understood. tj, what else do I need to know? 00:01:47 This is a new feature. You guys are really excited about it. It matters to me as a farmer. If 00:01:51 I'm temple, it saves me time. I'm taking the head on and off a lot when I'm in farm Ground where you are. 00:01:55 Yeah. Um, it's a time saver. It's a safety issue. Is there anything else? Just enjoy it. Enjoy. TJ Hamilton. 00:02:03 I'm Damien Mason with temp roads coming at you from Maryland. It's harvest time. Well, we're a little held up 00:02:07 because of the rain, but that's all right. 00:02:08.225 --> 00:02:08.985

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