ABSTRACT
Plant cutting, gathering, and conveying are among the main combine harvesting processes; they are performed by changeable headers coupled to a feeder-house, as required for harvesting particular crops or for some harvesting technology (e.g., plant cutting vs. grain stripping only). The types of headers were briefly described in the Chapter 1; they are the standard grain header (platform header), draper header (for wheat, rice, barley, oats, rye, triticale, and soybeans), corn header (for ears only or ears and stems), stripper header (for rice), sunflower header, and pick-up header (for beans). In the following, the header components are described along with mathematical models of their processes.
