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Scottville, 49454 Northwest Michigan | Do any of you have suggestions what can be done to lessen the amount of corn ear bounce in the corn head? I'm sure all of you hate it when you see ears of corn bouncing out of the corn head and onto the ground. We do too.
What adjustments to the corn head will help lessen this problem? I have found keeping the corn head just under the ears helps. But that's not always possible when we're dealing with down corn.
What suggestions can you offer?
thank you, gordon
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McComb,Ohio | We have a 2206 run 4 - 5 mph @30000pop. and ear savers loose vary little |
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Near-north Ontario, French River | Briggs, we had the same problem here this year. Lots of down corn, we were pushing dirt with the snouts to try to get under it. Where it was standing a bit better we could raise the head a bit but like you say, still had to run the head lower then we liked. Some corn was being pulled down 5 ft before hitting the deck plates. I personally witnessed one cob from row one, hit the snout at an angle going flying up and landing outside of row 6. Only thing I could see that really helped was to drive as fast as you could, but slow the head down and try to keep as much trash as reasonably possible on the head to cushion the cobs a bit when they came slamming down. Got to the point wear the only thing that really helped was to drive with my eyes closed LOL>.. never saw the issue as bad as it was this year, where corn was standing it was almost a none issue. We would still lose a few in standing corn because we removed the ear savers to help feeding in the down areas. |
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SW Iowa | slow down both ground speed and head.
I ran 1.5-2.5mph this year. Never had down corn as bad and so much of it.
Just slow down |
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Mid-Michigan | I slowed our head as slow as I could and kept below 5 MPH. Where I was losing corn was throuthe head. When the head was fast it would yank the ear so hard that it would shell when it hit.slowed it down and lost very little. |
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west central Iowa | Our ground ear corn head was the worst this year. Corn got below 15% before we got done. Slowing the head down helps a lot. As you get more shelling in the head, close stripper plates and carry a little more trash. Not much to do when ears hit snouts and bounce off, painfull to watch though. The fields that were down were really down this year! Cows had pretty good feed for a while. |
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Central Minnesota | My reply doesn't have to do with ears bouncing off the plastic, but in running my 2608 Case chopping head in even standing corn a few ears were shooting out of the head even when not hotting the plastic. I had my gathering chains staggered because I had read somewhere that helped from picking rocks up. I changed the gathering chains so the gatherers were pointing at each other and that helped the throwing immensely. I also noticed on some hybrids all the ears were coming in without husks and some were coming in with most of the husks still on. The hybrids that kept the husks on didn't bounce around near as bad. Also we had mostly under 15.5 % corn and when it is dryer more bouncing. I know what ya say though every time ya see one of those big ears go flying you almost want to stop and pick it up. |
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