[AT] 2 row corn combines

[John Hall]

I imagine quite a few of our "more experienced" list members have ran a 
combine with a 2 row corn header. For those that have not, Its like 
running a 5 foot bushog behind a tractor set to straddle two rows. Long 
story short, you better hope the guy planting kept the rows within a 
couple inches of the correct width or you will run over whatever you 
aren't cutting.

Anyway, I'm running a 3300 Deere combine in corn on 38"rows. Sometimes 
on slight hillsides I seem to be knocking down the row on the "lower 
side of the hill". I've got 3 theories, one is that the row markers on 
the tractor (chains that hang down from a bar under the belly of the 
tractor) are vertical (obviously) and therefore changing our spacing a 
little. Or maybe the planter is dog-tracking a little (4 row IH 
800--kind of beefy implement to dog track). My last theory is the steer 
tires on the combine aren't gripping and are letting it dog track. At 
the moment I have rather narrow flotation style tires. One of them is 
leaking so I want to put on another set. I am thinking of using 3 rib 
tractor fronts, do you guys think that may help my problem of knocking 
the corn down? The last new combine here was a 6620 Deere 2wd that came 
with some SERIOUSLY ribbed rear tires--they left their mark everywhere!

Any suggestions, and no, getting a 3 row header is not an acceptable idea.

John Hall