Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | WTXCottonguy - 8/1/2010 11:20
Ok I'm new to combines new they made pull type peanut combines but not grain. Could these cut wheat milo? This would bhea great option for us we kinda need a combine but not really right on the line. This would be perfect. Are they hard to run? What's the differences? Please educate me!
The limitation of a big pulltype combine is that they are best as a winrow machine, eating a 40 ft double swath.
With the hitch and PTO shaft on the left, almost all of the header has to stick out on the right side. That limits them to about a 17-20 ft header. I direct cut wheat, sunflower and flax for years with a PT 1482 with a 17 ft header.
Kind of a white knuckle deal if you need to cut pretty low. You need to run a 7-8 mph to satisfy the capacity of the combine.
A direct cutting PT combine is best when it works with a SP machine that opens the field so the PT combine / tractor does not have to run down any grain to open the field or turn at the ends. A pt is also limited to going around and around a field, instead of back and forth like a SP combine.
Let the SP machine cut the field into big blocks with plenty of turn around room around them , then let the PT combine with the big HP tractor shine as it devours those big blocks of grain with it's superior HP..
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Edited by Jon Hagen 7/31/2010 13:17
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