Farming Video | Kelly Garrett Reviews the Honey Bee AirFlex Header in Wheat
8 Jun 252m 19s

Kelly Garrett joins Chad Henderson’s Field Day in Madison, Alabama to talk about the Honey Bee AirFlex header alongside product specialist Jeff Marcum and farm operator Richie Malone. Kelly shares his experience running two Honey Bee heads at home, especially in wheat. Richie highlights how the wide feeder house gap improves throughput and helps with hillside harvesting. Jeff breaks down the AirFlex features, from its nine inches of full flex and mechanical drive to its lightweight airbag ground pressure system—all controllable from the cab. The team discusses real-world productivity benefits, ease of adjustment, and versatility between wheat and beans.

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00:00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag coming to you from Chad Henderson's Field Day in Madison, Alabama. We're here with Jeff Markham, product specialist 00:00:08 for honeybee and Garrett landed cattle stead farm operator all around superstar Richie Molo. 00:00:14 We're standing here by the honeybee head. We run two of these heads at home. We think they're a great option, especially in our wheat. 00:00:22 Uh, Richie, what do you like about this head relative to the other heads? We brought, Uh, actually the feeder house gap in the front 00:00:28 of the combine are on our hillco with a regular head. It narrows it up. This here, it keeps it nice and wide. You go through a side hill 00:00:34 or anything, it just leaves that feeder house wide open. More product can go through 00:00:39 The capacity's more so it increases your productivity. Yeah. And then, uh, two years ago, I think you and I were in the same field running. 00:00:46 I could go just a little bit faster 'cause you know, the, the honeybee head had a bigger gap in there. 00:00:51 You were having trouble, which pretty frequently you struggle. I do. You're right. Yeah. 00:00:57 So the productivity of this head, uh, really helped us out, especially in wheat harvest. Uh, Jeff, what, can you tell us more about this head? 00:01:05 Yeah, so this is our Air Flex, uh, platform. It's a full flex cutter bar. It's got nine inches of flex across 00:01:12 the width of the cutter bar. Uh, we use a mechanical drive, mechanical drive. You'll see it takes less horsepower to drive it. 00:01:20 And I think that's where we also see some ground speed improvement between the feeding and less horsepower to drive it. 00:01:25 We adjust the ground pressure when we're cutting bees. We use the airbags down here, the bottom of the head, instead of hydraulic pressure, 00:01:32 makes the header overall lighter and you can adjust that from the cab on the go. I was initially nervous about that, 00:01:39 about the airbags relative to the hydraulic downforce or flexibility that we've always, uh, been accustomed to. But the, the air, the air pressure system really works. 00:01:49 Nice. I'm, I'm happy with It. Just a flip of a switch is all it is. Yeah. In your case where you're cutting wheat with it, 00:01:55 if you were to go to beans after that, uh, like you said, it's a flip up a switch. There's no mechanical lockouts you have to do on the header. 00:02:01 Like some of our headers, you just drop the air pressure and the knife will drop down into flex mode. 00:02:07 If you'd like to talk To Jeff Moore about the honeybee headers, there'll be a My Field day in Dow City, 00:02:12.785 --> 00:02:13.945

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