About hte only concern I have is they seemed to chip an awful lot..... I have some of the first Choppers with chrome...and I'm not sure that's as good as what I thought I'd bought.....but on the flip side....I'm glad they caught the issue before they released them unlike some companies....
Posted 11/26/2011 21:42 (#2069758 - in reply to #2069552) Subject: RE: calmer corn head kits
Did you have them in corn with dry brittle stalks, Loran? We have the original calmer revolving window knife rolls with about 466 acres per row on them and still seem to be performing well but are showing some wear. In certain varieties they don't perform as I'd like them to when the stalks are all dried up and brittle. I'd like to move up to those BT choppers when these old rolls wear out. In dry corn we run 5+ mph and am curious how these new rolls perform in those conditions at faster ground speeds.
Posted 11/26/2011 21:15 (#2069700 - in reply to #2069534) Subject: RE: calmer corn head kits
N W Tennessee
Ran the Bt Choppers this past crop and was satisfied. Also installed the slow down kit along with the beveled deck plates and it seemed to reduce trash intake. Much better than the Deere knife rolls. I ran about a 1000 ac. this season with an 8 row. Still wonder how long they will last. They really chop up the stalks. If you veer off the row they don't perform as well. Sometimes when I got in smaller stalks(Drought areas)the performance dropped some. Overall on a scale 1 to 10 ,I would rate them a 9.0.
Posted 11/26/2011 22:02 (#2069803 - in reply to #2069700) Subject: BT chopper kit, Not pleased.
SW MN
I put them of a JD 2004 893 complete kit BT chopper slow down. deck plates. On the first corn it did some chopping as long as your speed was under 5 mph.
I was running the head as fast as it would go with my lexion. talked to calmer and he said to check the drive sprockets on head, had the right ones.
Then after I got the soybeans out corn was down to 13% had to slow the head way down to stop header loss. Then I had NO chopping at all.
It was alot of $$ spent for no chopping. And yes we had some issue's with stalks and tillage.
Posted 11/26/2011 22:53 (#2069927 - in reply to #2069803) Subject: RE: BT chopper kit, Not pleased.
I'll ask my question again.
Would you expect a Deere/Drago/CIH/Harvest Tech/whatever brand of lawn mower style chopping head would do a good job of chopping with the head running slow and combining at 5+mph?
Posted 11/26/2011 21:57 (#2069785 - in reply to #2069534) Subject: Re: calmer corn head kits
Extreme SW Minnesota Iowa border
Knife rolls and curved deck plates for sure. Slowdown kit, maybe. ( depends on the machine its on). I was pretty impressed by the small amount of wear on the knifes. Really makes a nice head.
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