2023 Drago Drago GT - 8 Row 838GT

2023 Drago Drago GT - 8 Row 838GT

Raising the bar on corn head performance and return of ownership with more industry-firsts, including QuadSuspension™ deck plate shocks. The result is a corn head like no other and by which all others are measured.

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Every 1/8” misadjustment gap between the stalks and deck plates accounts for up to four bushels lost per acre. And considering today’s higher plant populations, the increasing amount of plant material corn heads process and corn hybrids that dry down in the field and cause more butt-shelling, the potential yield loss steadily increases, too. On every farm, at every harvest, the Drago Automatic Self-Adjusting Deck Plates prove their value in capturing the corn you’ve grown.

The exceptional speed at which knife rollers work to pull down stalks results in a violent ear impact on plates. To mitigate this impact, the Drago GT introduced yet another industry first — QuadSuspension™ — integrated, impact-absorbing “ear shocks” that can significantly reduce butt-shelling and the resulting yield loss.

REAL-TIME HARVEST DEMONSTRATION:

Watch how many times the automatic self-adjusting deck plates change during a run during harvest.

THE HEART OF KERNEL CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY™

The industry’s longest knife rollers combine with a smaller diameter for added plant processing time. The extra time means roller tips can run slower, resulting in less ear bounce – less ear loss – without having to reduce combine speed. No other knife roller measures up to the performance of a Drago knife roller.

At 22.5 inches, the Drago GT features the longest knife rollers in the industry.

Having the longest knife roller with a smaller diameter reduces tip speed for less ear bounce, greater ear retention and reduced butt-shelling.

A knife-to-knife design pinches, pulls and opens up — allowing plants to move farther back into the corn head before the ear is removed.

Drago not only supports its knife rollers out front, but has two bearings and a grease bank built right into the nose cone itself. A dirt barrier is milled in to protect seals and bearings when tips are closer to the soil, as in downed-corn situations.

Drago builds bracket supports to keep knife rollers from spreading and breaking.

THE HEART OF KERNEL CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY™

Most yield-loss today occurs at the corn head rather than the combine behind it — ears bouncing off bonnets, butt-shelling at pull-down, kernels lost through deck plates — everything and more the Drago GT Dynamic Delivery System works to prevent.

The Drago GT’s 20-inch diameter auger and its 28-inch pitch fin moves more corn faster, yet more gently. It also handles more trash to help keep you harvesting through tough conditions.

The Drago GT corn head features a working angle of 17-23 degrees — the flattest in the industry. The low angle allows ears to move up the row unit with ease and reduce ear loss out the front. This lower working angle allows the Drago GT to work through downed corn more efficiently, too.

Large idler sprockets are placed in front of the knife rollers, allowing chain fingers to overlap in the front — where they can grab and capture stalks.