I use one for the swing and one for the lift. The reel is raised and lowered by the original hydraulic pump off the Deere swather. The orbit motor is used to chain-drive the head. He removed the pto-driven orbit motor from the Hesston hay head and mounted it on the grain head, replacing the original hydraulic hoses with longer ones. wider than the original hay head, I can drive the tractor between the standing crop and the windrow instead of straddling the windrow, which I had to do with the hay head,' says Egli.

to the front part of the pole, which puts the grain head out farther to the side. Deere grain head was much taller than the original Hesston hay head so it would've interfered with the hydroswing pole. It works quite well and I saved a lot of money over the cost of a new machine.' The 21-ft. 'I decided to mount the Deere grain head on the Hesston running gear. I didn't want to spend the money to fix either machine,' says Egli. And the engine was bad in my Deere 800 self-propelled swather equipped with a 21-ft. 'My Hesston 1014 hydroswing swather equipped with a 14-ft. He uses it to cut wheat and barley crops. Dak., took two broken-down machines and made one that worked - a hydroswing swather equipped with a 21-ft. Deere Grain Head SWATHERS Swathers 26-2-4 Edwin Egli, New Salem, N. 58563 (ph 701 843-7380 E-mail: here to download page story appeared in. Egli, 4825 County Road 139, New Salem, N. gate.'Ĭontact: FARM SHOW Followup, Edwin G.

wide but with the hydraswing I can fit it through a 16-ft. It's much easier to get around with a hydraswing swather than with a conventional pull-type swather. It works quite well and I saved a lot of money over the cost of a new machine.'

Fix reel on hesston 1014