The Yetter Stalk Devastator is a field-proven stalk roller designed to protect tracks and tires during harvest and speed up stalk residue breakdown. Unlike stomper-style attachments, these stalk rollers use flat steel bars that knock over and crimp stalks. This allows water and air to enter stalks, facilitating faster decomposition.

BREAK DOWN CORNSTALKS AND PROTECT TIRES

Today’s hybrid cornstalks cut into rubber tires and tracks on combines, tractors, and grain carts during harvest. Combine replacement tires can cost up to $12,700 for a front and $3,000 for a rear, while one replacement track can cost $3,500. It’s easy to see how this damage impacts your profitability!

The Yetter 5000 Stalk Devastator protects your investment. Its spring-loaded rollers attach to the bottom of the corn head. These rollers knock down and crimp stalks ahead of combine tires, preventing damage to equipment running both during and after harvest.

BEYOND TIRE PROTECTION

Stalk Devastator Accelerates Residue Breakdown
On top of saving tracks and tires from stalk damage, the Devastator is a residue management tool that improves field conditions for the next planting season.

Not only does the Devastator roll down cornstalks, it also crimps them—something stomper-style attachments don’t do. This allows air and water to enter stalks. Nutrients from the broken stalks are released into the ground, jump-starting faster microbial activity.

Growers with conventional corn heads who harvest with the Devastator installed get the benefits of faster residue breakdown without switching to more expensive, higher-horsepower chopping corn heads. And stalk breakdown saves you from making vertical tillage and stalk-chopping passes, increasing your profitability and ROI.

THE DEVASTATOR DIFFERENCE:  HOW IT WORKS

  1. Rollers mount underneath the combine corn head. The Stalk Devastator does not impact the way your corn head operates. As a roller attachment, it does not require extra horsepower to run.

  2. The spring-loaded rolling action of the Devastator knocks stalks to the ground and crimps them in front of the combine tires—and any tractors, tillage equipment, or trucks that follow—saving them from damage. Each roller unit covers 2 to 3 rows.

  3. THE DEVASTATOR DIFFERENCE: The Devastator does more than stalk stomping. Flat steel bars are welded to the stalk rollers that crimp and split cornstalks, jump-starting increased microbial breakdown over the fall and winter months. The root balls remain attached, so residue stays put vs. blowing out of your field.