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Posted 12/1/2023 07:54 (#10504823 - in reply to #10504433)
Subject: RE: Corn header, which one, educate me?


Mid-Michigan
case - 11/30/2023 21:46

cyclones30 - 11/30/2023 17:36

No idea what head to get for that combine, but your comment about needing to do some headlands on the far end to turn around each time just doesn't seem right. 

I've been around 5000 corn fields and never seen it done that way. End rows get taken off and then you're left with the long rows and can turn freely on the ends since they're already gone. Trying to harvest corn across the rows and while turning is a recipe for corn left on the ground 



I guess to clarify is that I would need to combine headlands on the far end as well. Without enough manpower to run a grain cart, for example in wheat, we would cut out the headlands along the road first. Then combine heads to the far end, and has to have room to cut out the headlands on that end as well as make it back to the truck. Combine to far end. Work on the headland as much as possible, paying attention to how full and head back to the other end with the goal of making it all the way back before running over.

I'm aware of how cutting row crops across rows doesnt work. For example if combine heads to far end going north, then we would try to combine the far end as much as we could going east and west, but still need room in the combine to harvest back to the other end.

I combine across the rows all the time and understand what you are doing. Your not losing much.
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