| CALMER Corn Heads, Inc. 3056 700th Avenue Lynn Center, Illinois 61262 |
Phone : (309) 629-9000
Fax : (309) 629-9001
Email :mcalmer@
calmercornheads.com
www.calmercornheads.com
Fax : (309) 629-9001
Email :mcalmer@
calmercornheads.com
www.calmercornheads.com
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CALMER CORN HEADS, by design, allow you to harvest faster
and more economically than ever before, maximizing your profit potential.
Lightweight
By combining our patented single chain design with our low profile, super
short poly hoods and dividers, we have created one of the lightest weight
row units in the industry.
Multi-zone Combo Stripper Plates
These combo stripper plates are longer, allowing for efficient removal of low
hanging ears in down corn. Our stripper plates are constructed with a sleek,
straight design, which will reduce ear wedging. The bevel in the remaining
stripper plate allows the knife to knife stalk rolls to engage more corn leaves,
shanks, and husks reducing trash intake and horsepower requirements.
Patent Pending
and more economically than ever before, maximizing your profit potential.
Lightweight
By combining our patented single chain design with our low profile, super
short poly hoods and dividers, we have created one of the lightest weight
row units in the industry.
Multi-zone Combo Stripper Plates
These combo stripper plates are longer, allowing for efficient removal of low
hanging ears in down corn. Our stripper plates are constructed with a sleek,
straight design, which will reduce ear wedging. The bevel in the remaining
stripper plate allows the knife to knife stalk rolls to engage more corn leaves,
shanks, and husks reducing trash intake and horsepower requirements.
Patent Pending
Strategically Realigned
Calmer heads are realigned to allow proper material flow from the tray to the
feeder house, reducing ear toss and providing for maximum flow rates in high
yielding, and in high-speed harvest conditions.
Patent Pending
Outstanding Performance
An essential part of Calmer's Patented single chain design, the UHMW (Ultra High Molecular
Weight) polyethylene ear guides, form a retaining wall to maintain engagement of the ears with
the enlarged hardened steel gathering chain paddles. By eliminating the second chain, chain
guide, drive sprocket, drive shaft, idler block, idler sprocket and chain tension spring, we reduce
the weight of the corn head by thirty-plus pounds per row and significantly lower horsepower
requirements. Another added benefit, after eliminating half the moving parts on the corn head,
maintenance cost for the Calmer Corn Head is much lower.
Our low profile divider snouts
are among the shortest on the market today making it easy to maneuver through narrow rows and around tight contoured areas. The
low profile flat back deck cover design (patents pending) help keep dislodged material engaged with the gathering chain paddles and
moving to the cross auger. The deck covers feature self-aligning valleys that make it a snap to install, and a lynch pin keeper that
allows you to easily remove the hood assembly without tools.
| "We've been planting narrow row corn since the late 60's and Marion Calmer is on the right track with the type of narrow row corn head he's building." Chuck and Beaulah Swanson |
Adjustability
These knives have slotted holes, allowing for easy readjustment and continued use as they wear down.
| Knife to Knife Stalk Roll Design |
| "The testing over the past nine years would indicate this stalk roll design has distinct advantages over intermeshing knife rolls used on other corn heads." -Marion Calmer, Owner |
Better Stalk Chop and Laceration for Faster
Decomposition
These self-sharpening knives are spray-welded with
tungsten carbide, creating a hard surface on the
backside. As they rotate, the soft metal wears first,
leaving a constant sharp edge that lacerates the epidermis or rhine of the cornstalk. This
greatly increases traction and stalk laceration which accelerates decomposition during the
winter months.
No Lateral Whipping
This knife to knife design simultaneously applies energy to the side walls of the corn plant
giving it a balanced downward pull.
In an intermeshing or overlapping
fluted stalk roll design, the flutes
apply energy to one side of the
stalk at a time. This causes thae
stalk to whip laterally and break,
creating trash. Some
intermeshing designs also cause
cutting and shearing which allows
the corn plant to float in the row unit
and end up in the combine
fluted stalk roll design, the flutes
apply energy to one side of the
stalk at a time. This causes thae
stalk to whip laterally and break,
creating trash. Some
intermeshing designs also cause
cutting and shearing which allows
the corn plant to float in the row unit
and end up in the combine
| Knife to Knife |
| Intermeshing |
| BENEFITS Faster harvesting speeds Better stock chop Less trash intake in standing corn Less trash intake in down corn More bushels per acre per day Chains last longer Warmer/Dryer no-till soils Less horsepower requirements Less grain loss Less fuel |
| OPTIONS Any color poly deck covers, dividers and wear points Hydraulic stripper plates available on all row spacings Factory paint to match your combine 15", 20", 22", and 30" row spacing Water pump nose bearings Stubble Lights Field Tracker / Contour Master |
| STANDARD FEATURES |
- Self-sharpening knife-to
knife stalk roll design - Dual or single chain design
- Trash reducing gathering
chain drive sprockets for
maximum stalk ejection - Outer row strippers offset
1/4-inch reducing ear loss
over the end divider - Calmer realignment package
for ear toss reduction and
maximum horizontal flow
rates - Cross auger adjusted with
1/2-inch clearance for
reduced ear slice and
cracked kernels - John Deere gathering chain
tighteners
- High performance gathering
chain with tall 2.25 x 2.5-inch
metal paddles - Calmer multi-zoned combo
beveled stripper plates for
maximum husking and leaf
ejection - Oil bath with 80H heavy
chain and 1 1/4-inch heavy-
duty driveline - Telescoping PTO shafts
- Flashers
- Auto-Header Height
- One-year Warranty
| Two 12 row 20" corn heads going to Kentucky |
Calmer Ag Research featured in Successful Farming Magazine
Successful Farming magazine profiled Calmer Ag Research in it's November 2003 issue. The
article discusses the Calmer Corn Heads for 15-and 20-inch rows and the company's new
trash reduction conversion kits.
According to Successful Farming:
"Calmer simply removed one gathering chain plus all the gears, shafts, bearings, and idlers
that went with it. He also had the gearboxes of the IH 800 corn heads he started with milled to a
width of just under 15 inches."
Instead of two gathering chains per row working in unison, Calmer's head has one gathering
chain per row, outfitted with 4 large plastic paddles. That chain is teamed up with an ear guide
on the other side of the row."
"The advantage of that approach goes beyond row width. Calmer's heads also weigh about 50
pounds per row less than conventional heads. "That weight difference is huge on a 12-, 16-, or
18- row head, " says Calmer."
"Equally if not more important, Calmer's heads require less horsepower to run. That translates
into less stress on the driveline. Calmer's patents gave him a strong position in the market for
15-inch heads, and that's the market he concentrated on until recently. Two years ago, he
started converting John Deere heads to 15-inch rows in addition to the IH 800 heads."
article discusses the Calmer Corn Heads for 15-and 20-inch rows and the company's new
trash reduction conversion kits.
According to Successful Farming:
"Calmer simply removed one gathering chain plus all the gears, shafts, bearings, and idlers
that went with it. He also had the gearboxes of the IH 800 corn heads he started with milled to a
width of just under 15 inches."
Instead of two gathering chains per row working in unison, Calmer's head has one gathering
chain per row, outfitted with 4 large plastic paddles. That chain is teamed up with an ear guide
on the other side of the row."
"The advantage of that approach goes beyond row width. Calmer's heads also weigh about 50
pounds per row less than conventional heads. "That weight difference is huge on a 12-, 16-, or
18- row head, " says Calmer."
"Equally if not more important, Calmer's heads require less horsepower to run. That translates
into less stress on the driveline. Calmer's patents gave him a strong position in the market for
15-inch heads, and that's the market he concentrated on until recently. Two years ago, he
started converting John Deere heads to 15-inch rows in addition to the IH 800 heads."
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