[AT] 2 row corn combines

[Len Rugen]

Instead of going back and forth, skip up 20 or so rows and go across again, then make all your passes on the downhill side always until you work out 40 rows.  You'll only push over 1 of 40 rows instead 1 of 4 :-) 


Len Rugen

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    On Monday, October 9, 2017, 5:29:48 PM CDT, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:  
 
 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

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