Midwest Fabrication Pty Ltd.

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Aug. 31, 2017

“We chose Midwest fronts for their sound construction and innovative features. We like the even plan from tip of the knife finger through to the draper belts with no nasty steps to restrict material flow. The stainless steel panels behind the knife and under the feed drum allow the crop to flow smoothly and timed knife drives give less vibration. The mounting system enables free oscillation of the platform from the harvesters which works very which works very well with large cutting widths.

Midwest have continued to improve and impress us along the way. This gave us the confidence to over-ride any apprehension we had regarding the extra width and weight in changing from our three 50 foot platforms to three 60 footers. Any doubt we had was soon dispelled after seeing them in action. The four land wheels mounted on the platform gives it great stability and the headers had no trouble lifting and handling the platforms. The extra width of the platforms allows us to keep the harvesters operating at optimum capacity, which equates to more hectares per hour in average to lighter crops, and travelling at a more moderate speed in heavy crops.

We moved to 60 ft to minimize harvest times, fuel cost and to match up to our 60 foot seeders and 120 foot sprayers to suit 60 foot traffic control tramlines. We put these platforms over 11,500 hectares in above average yielding crops with no problems whatsoever in the 2015 season. In our opinion, Midwest is a market leader in harvester platforms and we would strongly recommend Midwest`s Durus Draper platforms."

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