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Western Iowa | I am kind of a fan of Devastators. I put them on a 12 row chopping head last year. Here is the bad that I have seen
Pinning them up is an absolute joke unless you like either laying on your belly in the cornfield to both pin them up and pin them down.
They will also quit turning pretty easy with mud or just dew in the morning or any little weeds on the outside row like when tracing fences or terraces.
They are fussy about your header face plate tilt in relation to the snoot height. Get it set up real nice and have to drop the snoots down some to get some down corn and they risk quitting turning. Have it set for lower snoot height and then in normal corn the rollers don't hit very much or at all. I suppose a newer combine than I have with hydraulic adjust feeder faceplate angle could solve that issue?
I broke one roller clean off this fall. Factory weld was not the best after seeing it laying on the ground.
When set right they do a nice job, but I think with the Stalkmaster head I am running I probably could have saved the money and the complexity and just went with stompers. Without the chopping head I think the devastators value would go up. | |
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Stalk Stompers vs. Devastators?
