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Best-In-Class 360 Yield Center Chainroll


Grede Columbiana, Columbiana, Alabama


Material: Ductile iron (80-55-06). Process: Lost foam. Weight: 24 lbs.


Dimensions: 22.5 x 45 in.


Application: Corn fi eld har est and precision stalk residue management.


precision stalk residue management. Corn fi eld harvest and


• T e castings work in right- and left-hand pairs and use complex intermesh- ing tooth and blade geometries to precisely crimp and cut corn stalk residue into the desired fi nal size during harvest.


• T e numerous crimp sites on the stalks exposed for microbial breakdown help accelerate decomposition and nitrogen release into the soil, improving next year’s crop.


• Lost foam tooling was designed to produced multiple part confi gurations and part numbers with a single tool with interchangeable inserts, facilitating a family of chainrolls to fi t a variety of corn head models.


26 | METAL CASTING DESIGN & PURCHASING | May/Jun 2017


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