The RSD range is available from 12ft (3.6m) to 32ft (9.6m) working width. It features a fixed frame and adaptor plate system. The models are designed to suit the requirements to harvest both rice and grass seed.
Harvesting rice presents a unique set of challenges, high moisture, high yields and tough separation conditions. The RSD stripper header’s unique design helps rice producers gain better returns by improving harvesting performance. The benefits of using the stripper header in rice are capacity gained through increased ground speed. It is quite common to increase a combines capacity by up to 50 to 100%. This is achieved by decreasing straw intake into the combine and generally making the combine’s job easier. Productivity increases of 100% can be achieved when harvesting in adverse conditions such as down rice.
The RSD stripper header has revolutionized harvest for many grass seed producers around the world. The strippers ability to comb lodged crops of ryegrass and fescue off the ground and strip the seed without taking much of the green stem into the combine increases harvesting efficiency by up to 50%. Because the combine no longer has to process so much foreign material the seed recovery rates generally improve.