Supplemental heat on a combine.

[helmsdale]

Gleaner with deutz diesel and a plasma cutter should be ready for experiment in less than an hour. Maybe some flex pipe for the exhaust.

Exhaust never entered my mind, but yes that's yet another source of heat.

[biglentil]

Frost fighter and small generator hanging off back of header, sock under the feader house. On off switch right in the cab. Bet it could be set up in under 15 minutes. Not sure if you would want to run it all the time or just a 5 min dethaw every hour or whatever.

One gallon of diesel has 147k btus of energy. Lets say you avg 15g/hr thats 2.2m btu's. Typical diesel is 40% efficient, 35% is waste heat mainly handled by the Rad, in a turboed diesel exhaust about 25%. So a 350k frost fighter would give you the same approx amount of heat as pumping in the exhaust.

[TOM4CWB]

Frost fighter and small generator hanging off back of header, sock under the feader house. On off switch right in the cab. Bet it could be set up in under 15 minutes. Not sure if you would want to run it all the time or just a 5 min dethaw every hour or whatever.

One gallon of diesel has 147k btus of energy. Lets say you avg 15g/hr thats 2.2m btu's. Typical diesel is 40% efficient, 35% is waste heat mainly handled by the Rad, in a turboed diesel exhaust about 25%. So a 350k frost fighter would give you the same approx amount of heat as pumping in the exhaust.

Just spent 2 days doing straight cut frozen Canola. Heat is Bad. Doing harvest last night down to -23... no plugged sieves. Frost ends up as ice crystals in Canola. Dryer fixes that when that time comes... Canola safe if frozen until it thaws. RV antifreeze can help stop freezing of chaffer... but waited till noon and frost burned off today so no ice in standing Canola... 13% moisture...afternoon got back up to -4 and went through great lots of dust . Swaths are bad now... blown around machine wreckers... straw too tough... can see why straight cutters go with antipod shatter if not lodged bad works great... good yields being harvested. Close to 300ac done... takes lots of power... make sure to prevent slug feeding. Cheers

[biglentil]

Just spent 2 days doing straight cut frozen Canola. Heat is Bad. Doing harvest last night down to -23... no plugged sieves. Frost ends up as ice crystals in Canola. Dryer fixes that when that time comes... Canola safe if frozen until it thaws. RV antifreeze can help stop freezing of chaffer... but waited till noon and frost burned off today so no ice in standing Canola... 13% moisture...afternoon got back up to -4 and went through great lots of dust . Swaths are bad now... blown around machine wreckers... straw too tough... can see why straight cutters go with antipod shatter if not lodged bad works great... good yields being harvested. Close to 300ac done... takes lots of power... make sure to prevent slug feeding. Cheers

Only had to do 10 acres of standing conola with snow on the ground. Im wrapped up. Make sure you are using propylene glycol and not ethylene glycol.
GL everyone!