Olimac launches its new corn harvester with swather
Olimac continues to grow, doubling the size of its production facility, which today covers over 50,000 m2 of surface area of the more than 90,000 m2 large property. A leader in the production of corn and sunflower headers, the Cuneo-based company points out that all of its production phases are automated and the corn head components are produced entirely in the company-owned factory. The Olimac range includes the DragoGT and Drago2 corn headers, and the DragoGold sunflower header. The DragoGT and Drago2 feature shock-absorbing and automatically adjusted corn head plates which allow for loss-free harvests and greater working speed. The DragoGT is also equipped with a patented double scissor-effect stalk chopper for much finer shredding and faster decomposition of the product on the ground. For sunflower harvesting, Olimac offers the DragoGold, the head with a hydraulic stalk cutter, which makes it possible to cut the stalk at ground level and harvest only the head of the plant, without the stem. At this year's Bologna trade fair Olimac is launching its DragoGT header with swather, which makes it possible – in a single pass – to harvest the corn and rake the shredded material, residues and shredded stalks. This material can thus be easily collected by balers, self-loading wagons, forage collectors-loaders, and used in biogas plant digesters, in manure litter, and in incinerators. The residues left after the transformation into renewable energy are reused in the field as fertilizer. The swather, which features an auger positioned under the main frame of the corn header, conveys the residues into a swath before they fall to the ground, thus remaining clean, without soil and stones. Part of these residues remains on the ground even after the harvest in the swath, thus helping to preserve soil moisture for subsequent processing.
