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West Central, IL | Ok, last year was my first year farming. I have a 7700, and I got a 220 for it. I don't know what it was, but I could never get that thing to fed right. It would cut beans, they would fall on the stainless, but they would never want to move back to the auger. Once they got to the auger, it would take them in really nice. I could only run 2 mph or it would clump really bad and I would end up plugging the combine. Well I used it on 65 acres, and with 3 acres of beans to go a pile of beans formed in between the sickle and the stainless pan. The reel came down on it and broke 2 whole pices of pipe and fingers off and I got the machine shut down just as they hit the cylinder.
What I'm getting at here is, the head needs allot of work. I would have to put a pipe reel kit from shoup on there, because it would be to expensive to get the 2 pieces of pipe and stuff from Deere. It needs new skid plates on the bottom, and it needs a new sickle kit. I figure from shoup I would be around 3k for all that. It just does not make sense to me to put that much in a old head, that was giving me trouble feeding. The only thing it has going for it, is that it has a good auger and good crop dividers.
I guess here are my options
1. Fix the head $3,000 +/-
2. Find a nice 220 or 920 $3-5,000
3. Get a 653a, but probably keep the 220 and just get it going to do one farm where the 653a would not work $????
I'm leaning to get a different one in good enough shape for fall.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks!
Edit
There has been a lot of great help on here already. I am thinking that it just needed some adjustment. I am going to find a manual for it asap. I would also ad that. I tried running the reel all the way down and up and everywhere in between. I also messed with reel speed. I ran the reel all the way down for most of harvest and that is what worked the best. I might also add that there were some small beans but I averaged 55bu/a so there were good sized plants.
Thanks guys!
Edited by farmerpete2400 6/27/2011 14:02
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Bean head for this fall, what to do.
