2023 Drago Drago Series II Base

2023 Drago Drago Series II

The Drago II corn head is specifically designed and engineered to harvest today’s genetics — to capture more yield with unsurpassed durability and ease of maintenance. Drago II is a product of Olimac — a global company, passionately dedicated to creating the highest-quality, best-performing corn heads in the industry.

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AUTOMATIC SELF-ADJUSTING DECK PLATES

Low-maintenance, spring-loaded deck plate pistons constantly apply pressure to incoming stalks, automatically minimizing plate gap where yield loss can be significant.

Deck plate gaps, both in-row and row-to-row, are determined by the size of stalks running through them, compared to hydraulic systems that set the same plate gap for every row unit.

Gathering chains angle apart — front to back — to release stalks and avoid excessive trash from entering the combine.

Each gathering chain has five poly chain guides that extend the life of the chain and are reversible after one side has worn.

Oversized idler sprockets, which reduce chain wear, are forward-placed, allowing overlapping chain fingers to grab and capture stalks for processing — a highly valued feature when harvesting downed corn.

University research shows that a gap of only 1/8 inch between stalks and deck plates can cause measurable yield loss to occur.* And considering today’s increasingly higher plant populations, the amount of plant material corn heads must process, and hybrids that dry down faster, the potential for yield loss increases, too. On every farm — at every harvest — the Drago Automatic Self-Adjusting Deck Plates prove their value in capturing more of the corn you’ve grown.

Graeme Quick field research, Iowa State University.

The spring-loaded deck plate piston design is simple and requires little maintenance.

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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™

The Drago II 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.