AG COMPONENTS YOU CAN DEPEND ON TO RESIST WEAR AND TEAR

At Fisher Barton, we know what you’re up against. The agriculture industry will need new technologies to meet the demands of a hungry world while relying on increasingly scarce resources. Global food production is expected to increase by almost 70% by 2050. That requires agriculture wear products that run longer and operate more efficiently across the agricultural value chain. We’re at the forefront of developing this next generation of solutions.

Grain Harvesting

Fisher Barton leverages advanced surface engineering and vast materials knowledge to enhance the durability and efficiency of grain harvesting components, ensuring optimal performance in the field. We work with the world’s leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) to improve wear resistance and reduce weight in this critically important equipment.

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Grain Harvesting - Combine Threshing and Separating

Grain Harvesting - Combine Residue Management

Combine Header

Combine headers are designed to efficiently cut and gather crops, ensuring smooth material flow and minimal grain loss. Fisher Barton’s advanced manufacturing capabilities, wide variety of wear coatings, and strong understanding of material properties and heat treatment processes allow us to work with our customers to enhance the durability and performance of header components.

Stalk Rolls/Knives

Stalk rolls and stalk roll knives aggressively process corn stalks, improving residue breakdown and facilitating smooth harvesting. Our efficient machining, heat treatment, and coating processes are combined for a quality component.

Skid Plates

Skid plates provide height control and ground protection for combine headers, ensuring even cutting and reducing excessive wear.

Stalk Chopper Knives

Stalk chopper knives cut and shred crop residue, accelerating decomposition and preparing the field for the next planting season. Their sharp, durable edges ensure effective chopping in demanding conditions.

Belt Supports

Belt supports provide stability to belt-driven components in the header. Our wear coatings can be applied to these components for extended life.

Deck Plates

Deck plates regulate stalk and ear flow into the combine header, reducing grain loss and improving harvesting efficiency. Fisher Barton produces these components utilizing either a press or laser cutter, form, and hard-face weld in-house.

Combine Threshing and Separating

As crops are separated in the body of the combine, it’s important that components are delivering superior performance and longevity, optimizing the combine’s efficiency and throughput. Fisher Barton provides the manufacturing technologies needed to ensure threshing components meet the wear and impact requirements of this environment.

Elements/Rasp Bars

Threshing elements and rasp bars provide aggressive yet controlled grain threshing, removing the grain from the plant with minimal damage. Fisher Barton’s wear coatings and heat treatment processes enhance the durability and efficiency of these components, ensuring superior threshing performance.

Tines

Tines assist in crop separation by moving material efficiently through the threshing system, reducing grain loss. Fisher Barton’s wear coatings and heat treatment processes enhance the durability of these components.

Wear Plates

Used in various agriculture equipment applications, wear plates provide extended life to high wear areas. Fisher Barton’s heat treat and coating options provide superior performance.

Concave Bars

Concave bars play a crucial role in the threshing process by effectively separating grain from chaff. Fisher Barton’s precision engineering and advanced heat treatment and wear coating processes ensure these components deliver high performance and durability.

Concave Pins

Fisher Barton heat treats these pins ensuring proper hardness and durability. Concave pins are adjustment or locking pins used to secure or fine-tune the position of the concaves. They help set the clearance between the rotor and the concave, which is crucial for effective threshing. Proper adjustment using these pins ensures: efficient grain separation with minimal grain damage.

Flights

Flights control material movement inside the separator, ensuring an even flow for effective grain separation. Fisher Barton’s experience in forming and heat treating these components has been proven to provide superior, quality parts.

Coated Hardware

As the life of components is extended, it may also be necessary to extend the life of the hardware that secures the components. Fisher Barton can apply wear resistant coatings to bold heads to ensure adequate lifespan of hardware.

Combine Residue Management

Residue management involves processing and distributing crop residue after the grain has been separated. Fisher Barton’s manufacturing processes produce long-lasting components for superior residue management and reduced maintenance needs.

Paddles

Paddles assist in evenly distributing chaff and crop residue, preventing excessive buildup and promoting faster decomposition. With Fisher Barton’s advanced wear coatings and heat treatment, these paddles are built to withstand demanding conditions and ensure optimal distribution.

Stationary Knives

Stationary knives provide a cutting edge for chopping crop residue efficiently before discharge. Fisher Barton’s proprietary bevel process and heat treatment ensures these knives maintain sharpness and durability for effective residue management.

Swinging Chopping Knives

Swinging chopping knives enhance residue breakdown by providing flexible, high-speed chopping action. Fisher Barton’s wear coatings and heat treatment extend ensure these knives deliver quality performance, improving overall residue management.

Tillage, Soil Prep, and Planting

We improve the properties of metals and alloys using our expert heat treating techniques and with a wide variety of wear-resistant coatings to provide the most durable performance and wear characteristics in tillage, planting and fertilizing components.

Sweeps are V-shaped blades used in field cultivators and chisel plows for weed control and soil aeration. They maintain a smooth seedbed with minimal soil disturbance. Fisher Barton's advanced wear coatings, heat treatment, and precision machining ensure these sweeps are durable and perform reliably in tough conditions.

Mud scrapers keep planter and tillage components clean by preventing soil buildup, ensuring accurate depth control and smooth operation. Fisher Barton's coating and weld overlay capabilities such as PTA (Plasma Transferred Arc) technology enhance durability and can potentially offer superior performance or lower cost compared to carbide tiles.

Seeding and fertilizer points are precision wear components designed for accurate seed and nutrient placement. Fisher Barton can combine several manufacturing capabilies for these components including welding, brazing, hard-facing, and heat treatment to provide a robust component that will perform to the highest expectations.

Seed tube guards protect seed tubes from excessive wear and impact in high-speed planting conditions. They ensure consistent seed placement and spacing, helping to maximize emergence and uniform stand establishment.

Bronze worm gears have been proven to be an ideal material for use in for Irigation System equipment. Fisher Barton can cast bronze gear blanks and can machine in house to a customers required dimensions.

Accurate Specialties manufactures precision bronze gears designed to meet the demanding requirements of manure spreader applications. These gears are produced using high-performance bronze alloys that offer excellent resistance to corrosion, wear, and chemical exposure.

Hay and Forage

We produce a wide range of components for forage harvesters, mower conditioners and balers by optimizing metals and alloys with specific heat treatments and wear coatings. We work with the world’s leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) to improve wear resistance and reduce weight in this critically important equipment.

Discs (sometimes referred to as "turtles") are the rotating cutting component in disc mowers and mower conditioners. It powers the cutting action, ensuring efficient crop flow and a clean cut. Fisher Barton's precision forming, welding, machining and heat treatment processes enhance the durability and performance of these discs and the associated mounting hardware.

A disc bracket serves to securely attach the disc blades to the frame of the implement. This ensures the discs maintain the correct angle and spacing.

Rock guards protect cutting components from damage caused by rocks and debris, ensuring longevity and reducing downtime. Fisher Barton can form, weld, and heat treat these components efficiently.

Skid plates protect the mower deck and control cutting height, preventing excessive wear on the cutterbar while allowing smooth operation over uneven terrain. Fisher Barton's advanced heat treat processes can provide long-lasting protection. Coatings may also be used to further enhance component life.

The shear bar works in conjunction with the cutterhead to create a precise, scissor-like cutting action for chopping forage into uniform lengths. Fisher Barton's manufacturing processes ensure these shear bars deliver consistent, precise cuts and maintain durability under demanding conditions. Fisher Barton has the flexibility to utilize different base materials, heat treat processes, or coating options to manufacture shear bars.

Forage harvester knives are built to deliver clean, consistent cuts through crops like grass, corn, and alfalfa. Made from high-strength, wear-resistant steel, these knives are heat treated and precision-formed to hold their edge in tough field conditions. Designed to match customer specifications, they help ensure smooth crop flow, reduce plugging, and support high-quality forage output.

Livestock Feeding

Feed Mixers are a critical component in every livestock operation. The use of wear resistant coatings on our patented MARBAIN^® base metal extends the life of the knife component — satisfying your customers’ demand for durability and fewer replacements.

Mixer knives cut and blend feed ingredients in TMR (Total Mixed Ration) mixers, ensuring even distribution of nutrients for livestock. We optimize material selection and the austemper heat treat process to increase blade strength, while at the same time reducing blade thickness and the need for a heavy backing plate. The use of a wear resistant thermal spray coating on MARBAIN® base material creates a self-sharpening edge to extend service life.

Fisher Barton is your trusted partner for top-quality grain hammers that enhance agricultural efficiency. Our cutting-edge coating technologies boost performance, ensuring your equipment remains durable and reliable.

Tractor

Fisher Barton specializes in manufacturing high-performance wear parts for tractors, designed to withstand the rigors of agricultural work. Fisher Barton’s wear parts are essential for various components of the tractor, as well as the parts that support the applications, including soil preparation, planting, harvesting, and tillage.

Drawbars provide a strong connection between tractors and implements, transferring pulling force efficiently. Built to withstand heavy loads and tough field conditions, Fisher Barton has the machining and several types of heat treatment capabilities required to produce a wide variety of drawbar sizes in both bent or straight designs.

Thermal spray coatings are an effective solution for enhancing the durability of shifter fork ends in tractor transmissions. These components are subject to repeated contact, friction, and wear during gear engagement. By applying a thermal spray coating, Fisher Barton can significantly improve surface hardness and wear resistance which extend component life and maintains smooth shifting performance under demanding agricultural conditions.

Precision-Engineered Surfaces for Peak Agricultural Performance

At Fisher Barton, we understand that in agriculture, durability and efficiency aren’t optional—they’re essential. That’s why our advanced surface engineering and coating technologies are designed to meet the rigorous demands of modern farming equipment. Engineered to Withstand the Elements From abrasive soils to corrosive fertilizers, agricultural components face relentless wear. Our proprietary thermal spray coatings, heat treatments, and surface modification technologies extend the life of critical parts—reducing downtime and maximizing productivity in the field.

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