The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-08-13
Home Made Header Attachment

With the harvest season on and
some of the grain too short to har-
vest with an ordinary binder and tie
without loosing a lot of it, a number
of farmers may resort to the use of
a mower and try to rake it up and
this method is also very slow and
wasteful.
The best way to handle short grain
when a header cannot be obtained is
to put a header attachment on the
binder. This can be successfully
done as dozens of farmers in the coun-
ty made attachments for their binders
last year and report it a complete
success. One days time and about
$40 makes the attachment.
Making the Homemade Attachment
Remove all the binding apparatus
from the binder including bundle
carrying attachment. The idle roller
or base at the top of the binder
frame will act as pully for the ele-
waiting canvas Of the attachment. The
elevator boards are attached to the
top of the binder frame and braced
to the angle in brace that goes past
the bull wheel. This is done at both
front and back sides. The work of
a blacksmith may be necessary to
make the irons that fasten the ele-
vator boards to the frame. After
each board is fastened securely to top
Of binder frame it should then be
braced at the exact angle desired.
What this angle shall be depends some
what upon the height of the wagon to
be used under the header boxes. Too
steep an angle is to be avoided, since
the grain will not be carried out of
the canvas if made too steep. The
boards used m l inch by 10 inch, the
length of these boards may vary
somewhat; for low wagons, boards
may not be over 5 feet , for high
wagons they may be Cor Z feet long.
Before setting the elevator at the de-
sired angle the binder should be
lowered as far as possible as it
would when used in short grain. The
height of the upper end of the eleva-
tor will be about 6 to 6k feet from
the ground. In making this elevator
at the proper angle it should be borne
in mind that the end of the elevator
should be about a foot and a half
above the side of the header box. This
will allow the driver of the header
box som freedom in driving. The
elevator of the ordinary header is
flexible so that when the header box
crowds the elevator it will be moved
up and not be broken. Some farm
ers make the attachment movable.
After both elevator boards are braced
at the proper angle it is then we'll to
next brace the two boards with each
other by the use of diagonal strips of
iron. These braces between the
boards must be placed so as to allow
the canvas to surround them and not
catch the canva and tear it. Cross
reds are required neal the upper end
of the elevator to prevent the boards
from spreading. After the elevator is
securely braced you are ready to put
in the uppermost elevator roller. This
roller must be equally distant at both
ends from the idle roller. No bookings
are required in this board. Simply
drill holes the size of the roller pins.
Both rollers should be the same
length.
The elevating canvas most generally
used is made at home from 20 ounce
canvas. The platform canvas does
not work we'll. If the elevator is not
too steep strips will not be necessary.
When necessary thin Stats must be
used.
To make this header attachment fol
the common binder requires but or.
binary farm knowledge of machinery
There is no absolutely fixed way. Nc
extra gears of any kind are required
Material that may have been pur'
chased are the two boards; thu
smooth canvas, the uppermost roller
and iron braces. The average farm
err need have no fear of this matte,
being complicated. However, infor
nation regarding this will be gladly
given by the Farm Bureau office
Photographs will be sent on request
MURRAY E. STEBBINS
County Agri. Agent