Farming Video | Why Kelly Garrett Runs a Honey Bee Draper Head for Harvest Speed

00:00:00 If you're a farmer at harvest time, you've gotta get through the crop sometimes with expediency. Why? Because maybe weather is looming. 00:00:06 You've got a lot of acres to do. I asked Kelly Garrett before we turned on the video, why are you so enamored with your Honey Bee header? 00:00:15 And you said, you Know me in ROI time is money, and with this head I can combine twice as fast. You said the word capacity. I'm joined by Jeff Mecom. 00:00:23 He is with Honeybee, and we're talking about this very draper head that's behind us. Capacity. Why is this the horse when it comes 00:00:29 to getting through the crop quickly? Well, in Kelly's case, I think some of the things that really helped him on his capacity would be the wider 00:00:36 window at the back behind our feed Auger. It's got a little bit wider center deck on it. So instead of throwing that crop together in the center, 00:00:44 we're spreading it out and it's coming into your combine more. Even additionally, 00:00:48 the cam reel we have on these headers has a really aggressive front to engage that crop. But let's go of it real quick in the back on the draper. So 00:00:56 Basically, you know, obviously we got what, how many feet are we talking here? It's a 36 foot. Okay, 00:01:01 I was gonna say four. All right, so we're bringing it in here. This is a wider, go ahead 00:01:04 and Jeff, lemme just take a look here. This is a wider, um, this is a wider mouth than 00:01:09 most of the hedge, right? Yes, it Is. Okay. Significantly wider. 00:01:12 This center belt and the opening back up into the throat of the combine. Okay. So simple question. 00:01:18 Why'd you guys catch on to this capacity idea and the others haven't? Well, the owners of honeybee, they farm themselves 00:01:24 and they farm up in Saskatchewan, Montana area where they've got large equipment. They're trying to cover a lot of acres all at once 00:01:31 and you know, they get a lot of throughput. Okay, this opening right here. And then the question is, okay, great, 00:01:38 your header can handle the capacity, but the rest of the machine can't. Does this create a situation where all 00:01:43 of a sudden the header's more capable than the combine? Well, it potentially could, but I would tell you that the headers I ran 00:01:48 before the combine went outperformed the header. Now I would tell you that it's equally matched. Okay. So when I look at this, uh, 00:01:56 capacity issue you farming, some really rolling terrain, I can see where when you're on a stilts 00:02:02 and things like that, you're gonna have an issue with your opening, getting a little bit more squeezed. I can see for 50 miles here in the delta 00:02:08 of Arkansas, it's not a hilly area. As it matter about conditions, The capacity issue exists on flat ground 00:02:13 and the steeper the hill gets the worse it gets. Yeah. So this head shines even more then. But even on this flat ground, 00:02:19 you're gonna pick up capacity with the honeybee. So when you go out there, I mean, when people get excited about these, uh, draper heads, 00:02:26 do they talk to you about capacity? Is that a thing or is that more of a thing for Oh, that's a thing. 00:02:30 You know, you, you look at this territory down here in the Delta and we're dealing with down rice, a lot 00:02:36 of throughput on the combine again, and that's kind of where our eight bat reel shines here. We've got on this particular unit for the rice market, 00:02:42 we've done a lot of stuff over in Tennessee with down wheat. Yep. Um, just those, those big cereals 00:02:49 that you've gotta shove a lot of throughput through your combine and that's where we can kind of shine. Got it. We're standing in front of 00:02:55 how many different sizes this come in? Uh, 25 foot up to a 60 foot. Got it. Thank you. He's Jeff Markham with Honeybee. 00:03:01 I'm joined by Kelly Garrett with Extreme Ag. We're stand in front of the 36 Foot Draper head by honeybee. If you wanna learn more, go to, 00:03:07 You can go to honeybee.ca. Um, you can find your local territory manager on our website and then also check out our YouTube page. 00:03:15 We got a lot of field videos on there. Got It. We're coming at you from the Miles Farm, field Day, McGee, 00:03:19 Arkansas, bringing you great information you can use. You know what, if you've never been to one of our field days, or even if you have, go 00:03:23 to Extreme Ag Farm and register for any of the field days, you might be seeing this before the last one, August 21st. 00:03:29 We'd love to have you there. Till next time, Damian Mason 00:03:31.035 --> 00:03:32.245