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Soybeans: All Crop or Flex Head?
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dave swia
Posted 9/30/2006 07:12 (#47745 - in reply to #47711)
Subject: RE: Not so fast


sw corner Ia
beans were planted same day by me and the other guy with the drill. I have done both wide and narrow, and apparantly our beans don't shatter like yours. Select seed for this, works for me. In high yeilding beans the flex head will get just as many beans, and you can have any size head your big combine can take. 8820 should be good for a 30'. I am in steep hills and following sharp curves with a row head is pretty hard on your mind. If you have straight rows, it wouldn't matter so much.

I say again, the mounting holes in the row head units will not allow you to cut closer than 3-3.5". A flex table will do better than this. I had a set of roto shoes till the durn things wore through the rivets and began to fall off in the field. They do not adjust closer to the ground, and will not work as well as shoes with plastic bottoms.

You are dead right on the rocks. If both heads are a wash, you are a mountain of labor and repairs behind on the row head. Have a safe harvest..


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