Unique multicrop capability.

For a clean cut.

The flexible knife bar can be equipped with two different cutting systems:

• closed knife guards for use with crop lifters

• open knife guards for clean, trouble-free cutting, even under adverse conditions (e.g. moist plants, weeds)

The flexible, front section of the cutterbar table and the central floor plate are made of stainless steel. As a result, all material, whether short or heavy, is fed evenly to the intake auger.

For grain harvesting, crop lifters can be fitted to the short knife guards.
Optimal ground adaptation in grain stubble can be achieved by equipping the left and right sides each with a pair of AUTO CONTOUR sensors immediately behind the knife bar.

Particular demands are placed on the reel in difficult conditions when it has to dig deep into the crop or raise it from the ground. The reel's strong structure and wear-resistant tine tube bearings are therefore deliberately designed to handle these loads.

The reel tine carriers and the reel centre tube are designed to reduce the risk of wrapping as much as possible. This enables blockage-free working and keeps downtime to a minimum.

The flexible plastic reel tines also make it possible to work close to the ground.

The lighting package provides good all-round visibility when operating in the dark. Work lights on the left and right sidewalls illuminate the crop edge. The work lights at left and right on the back panel allow the stubble immediately behind the cutterbar to be monitored.

All MAXFLEX cutterbars are equipped as standard with intake auger fingers which can be replaced without tools. The quick-release mounts can be accessed easily through the large maintenance openings in the intake auger. As a result, any repairs which may be necessary can be carried out in a very short time.

Uninterrupted crop flow starts right at the cutterbar, with the correct height setting of the intake auger being a particularly important factor.

Height scales are therefore provided on the left and right sides to aid easy adjustment.

The stripper plates in the cutterbar trough can also be adjusted conveniently from outside.

MAXFLEX cutterbars can be used in 3 different operating modes.

The operating mode is selected in CEBIS.

1 Grain mode.

Cutterbar table and knife bar are set to a rigid configuration. The cutting height is controlled by the grain sensor bands.

2 Manual flex mode.

When manual flex mode is activated, the knife bar follows the ground contours. Sensors in the sliding skids provide the control signals for AUTO CONTOUR. The flexible knife bar can avoid obstacles with a 90 mm upward deflection and also follow the ground contours with a downward deflection of 90 mm. With a total flex range of 180 mm, MAXFLEX is therefore able to adjust to practically all ground conditions.

3 AUTO FLEX mode.

AUTO FLEX is a self-learning system which automatically optimises the height of the front attachment on the basis of the ground contours and thereby offers a number of important advantages:

• The greatest possible downward flex range is always available
• The knife bar is always maintained as close as possible to the reel
• The lowest cutting height is achieved.
• When AUTO FLEX is activated, the knife bar follows the ground contours. Sensors in the sliding skids provide the control signals for AUTO CONTOUR.

Skids with integrated AUTO CONTOUR system for perfect adaptation to ground contours across entire working width enable harvesting of low-growing crops.