The SCH Easy Cut II cutterbar system eliminates the need for any adjustments, meaning more uptime and less maintenance. High quality spring steel guards, completely hardened sections and roller guides give this sickle bar system durability and low maintenance.
The SCH Pro Drive’s planetary gear system is in rotation at all times. This produces a 100% linear knife movement, compared with wobble boxes or other oscillating and pendulum drives.
Eliminating the Reel - Auger Gap The revolutionary, patent-pending design of the Orbit Reel is tailored to today’s high performance headers and brings the reel tines right up to the auger before exiting the crop.
Run your head closer to the ground without pushing and piling soil and you will put more crop in the combine even in wet sticky conditions. Poly Skid Shoes are sold in complete kits to outfit an enitre grain head or as individual replacement parts.
SCH crop lifters help lift and feed down crops and are essential in the harvest of different crops such as down wheat, oats, milo and other common cereal grains.
SCH Croplifters for OEM guards, SCH EasyCut I and SCH EasyCut II guards.
The SCH Pro Flex Lifter is specially designed, and often times essential, for the harvest of “downed” crops, whether it be because of snow, wind or heavy rains.
More Grain in the Bin! Less in the Field! If you don't check accurately, you don't know what you are losing! The Bushel Plus system has revolutionized the checking-for-harvest-loss process. As featured on CORN WARRIORS USA – you can now quantify your grain loss and calibrate your loss monitor for immediate improvement!
The Flip Reel Kit is designed to eliminate wrapping around bat tubes and is particularly effective in soybeans, canola and other tall, stringy crops.
Installation is easy and can be done on equipment you already own.
Designed as a retro-fit for all HCC tube-type reels built since 1990. ML 4-1/2" tine spacing or Level II 6" tine spacings are designed to work with the Flip Reel Kit.
You can install it yourself in just a few hours using the Installation Instruction Manual.
OEM replacement knife assemblies are sectional so they can be shipped by UPS. Same high quality parts as original equipment knife assemblies. Includes all hardware for assembly. We also have OEM replacement guards and sections available.
Keep your auger feeding smoothly and efficiently - with NO harm to the combine. The May Wes Poly Retractable Fingers are an ideal alternative to metal fingers because they are far less damaging when a metal finger breaks and is fed through the combine. Unlike metal, broken poly will disintegrate before causing equipment damage.
PROBLEM: Most knife drives lose stroke length and force.
SOLUTION: The SCH Pro Drive’s planetary gear system is in rotation at all times. This produces a 100% linear knife movement, compared with wobble boxes or other oscillating and pendulum drives.
Advantages of SCH Pro-Drive to Conventional Cutter Bar Knife Drives
Makes Changing Knives, Even in the Field, a Breeze
The SCH engineers have devised a brilliant method of attaching the knifehead to the drive that is a major advancement. Designed as a trapezoidal claw, the connection is easy and accurate. No bolts to line up, no bearings to adjust or shim, no fear that dirt might get into bearings, bushings, etc. Makes changing knives even in the field a breeze.
Higher Ground-Travel Cutting Speeds:
Testimonial from Huron County, Michigan:“I bought an Sch ProDrive knife drive for my 1020 Header this spring. Put 500 acres on it and couldn't be happier. Ground Speed was faster by .5mph to 1mph even with worn out dull guards. I can’t wait to see what it will do with brand new knives and guards next fall.”
All SCH Pro-Drive Conversion Kits Include:
SCH Pro-Drive, vertical, 85mm (3.3") stoke
Drive pulley for SCH Pro-Drive
Mounting bracket for SCH Pro-Drive
Knifehead
Extra nylon ring for knifehead
Warranty: SCH Pro-Drives have a 1 year warranty on parts and labor from date in service.
VIDEO: SCH Pro-Drive Knife Drive - Explained and In Action
Comparison of SCH Pro-Drive to conventional cutterbar knife drives
Almost all conventional cutterbar knife drives in combine harvesters have a knife stroke of between 3” and 3-1/3”. When a crop that is difficult to cut loads the cutting knife, the knife rarely travels the full length of the stroke. A considerable amount of the stroke is lost in deflecting gear housings, gear brackets, ball and socket joints and installed wobble boxes. Drives have been tested in which the stroke has fallen to 2-1/2” under load. The knocking and shaking this produces in the cutterbar is known to almost every expert in the field. It gives the impression that dull sections are being used.
The SCH Pro-Drive high performance cutterbar knife drive eliminates all these problems. Built using planetary gears, these drives produce an absolutely linear knife movement when compared with wobble boxes or other oscillating and pendulum drives. The gears are in exact alignment with the knife. This means there is no need for reversing or oscillating levers, which causes the loss of stroke in other drives. The full length of the stroke generated by the planetary gears is transmitted to the knife. The SCH Pro-Drive high performance knife drives can be driven either horizontally or vertically.