With Soy and Pulse crops, traditional headers incur shatter loss at the knife when loose and low-lying pods are shelled and fall back into the field or are otherwise lost or damaged, leading to loss in profits and reductions in sample quality. Knives are often cluttered with debris, reducing cutting efficiency, creating unnecessary wear, breakage and downtime.
When added to a combine header, the AWS Airbar® dramatically reduces this loss of product and efficiency. The high-velocity air stream that is applied to the knife through the out-front manifold, thrusts these pods and materials across the cutting head and into the feeder-house, increasing average yields by as much as 4 bushels per acre.
