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2024 Drago GT 8 Row 830GT

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.

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.

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. This aggressive overlapping chain design is vital in picking up corn in less-than-perfect conditions.

Features may include:

• An industry-first and revolutionary concept in yield capture technology.

• Integrated impact-absorbing “ear shocks” reduce “butt-shelling” when ears strike deck plates – reducing a significant cause of yield loss at harvest.

• Handles more trash and gently moves corn to the combine’s feederhouse – and keeps it there.

• The first chainless design — including auger drive — that’s standard on all row configurations. Delivers long-lasting, virtually maintenance-free reliability.

• The most durable and efficient row unit gearbox possible – more power delivered, more years of service.

• Counter-cutting blades deliver the best cut and stalk breakdown in the industry.

• 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.