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NW KS/ SC ID | Nice writeup!
The bigger farmer I help, his dad has a 7230 and had a Gerringhoff Northstar on it, and it pitched chains a few times that year, so you are not alone. He had a Series I 8r30 Drago on a 6088 prior to that and I loved that header (and liked the combine better for that matter), though there was no down corn that year to see how it would perform.
As far as the Agco heads, that is one thing they have figured out IMO, the gather chain and tensioner. you can actually dig dirt (I got dirt in the old steel snout hugger last year going after ears with tips 1 inch off the ground) and not pitch a chain. The large, aggressive lugs are nice as well. In a way, the skid plate to top of snout distance is thinner on the old black frame headers, so in some cases they feed a tiny bit better than the Hugger. I am slumming it with a black frame on a L2 this year, still not done yet, should be today or tomorrow.
Is anyone messing around with pickup headers over there going after dropped ears? | |
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Various cornheads performance review in down corn
