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McCanna, ND | Ragged standing stalks are due to knife spacing. I’ll get a few standing stalks on sand ridges. Driving by the field it looks like a chopping head as it’s just stumps sticking up. The stalks are on the ground cut 95-100% of the way through which promotes good breakdown but the pieces are large enough to not blow in the wind.
I did 1:1 drive in the chaincase on the outside of the head. Run 550 feederhouse speed usually. That’s good for our wide cornhead and short stature corn. 5-10% overdrive might work better for taller corn/narrower heads.
Butt shelling is due to CNH stupid beveled deck plates with a wear bar welded on. Huge stress riser with the wear bar which creates the butt shelling. Then gravity is fighting (and winning) against you because the kernels drop out the beveled deck plate. A flat deck plate with a hardfaced edge is the best deckplate period. Allows the leaves to wipe in the vast majority of the kernels and has minimal butt shelling since there isn’t any stress risers. | |
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Case IH 1083 vs 3408
