Combines Bean header auger

[Tim_nj]

Was this on a Gleaner or another makeIJ As many fingers as I've bent this year cutting these short, short soybeans (and picking up rocks in the process),an auger like that might be good. I wonder, though, how badly it would wrap up if used in small grainIJ

 

[Ag__teacher]

Case IH 1020 flexible cutterbar header. It ran well in milo and soybeans. I do not know what it would do in other crops.

 

[John]

Does the flighting extend into the area where the fingers normally areIJ

 

[Ag__teacher]

Yes the flighting does extend into the area where the fingers are, and the fingers are removed. One header I saw had the continuous flighting and the fingers. I like the fingers being removed as it will keep a bent finger from ruining the auger.

 

[Tim_nj]

I chewed up my auger on the K2 10' platform. My dealer says he can get me a new auger still . . . either that or get another platform with a good auger in it for the same money as a new auger . . . been thinking about making nylon fingers to put in to prevent damage. Nylon fingers are available aftermarket for yellow, red, and green combines, but not galvanized.

 

[Dan]

We have extended flighting on many many older headers that have 4" flighting. We do this so we can feed these very hungry machines. We did this for the machines in wheat and material would flow to middle area and stall or build. When material would stall and build the cutter bar would not fully cut crop in that area directly ahead of fingers. We still have fingers installed in that area but doubt they are needed. We are likely able to do this on our rotary and likely some other rotors because narrow feeder still runs full thus feeding our narrow concave even no matter what conditions are. You may not be able to do this to large conventional for they are feed sensative to maintain a good job over concave in changing conditions as day goes on. I haven't had to modify any 700 or 800s with 7" flighting for that auger works perfectly. The 7" auger have 4" flighting extention into finger area but do not intesect a center line like we have to do with the old 4" flighting augers. I don't know of finger area not feeding on any soybean conditions with 4" or 7" flighting but in wheat and barley ect.when tring to feed massive amounts we had trouble. We also found on corn heads that we needed to intersect a center line with flighting to prevent build up in certain conditions right where there was no flighting. I guess the 12 row 30" heads have split auger with support in middle so they would need a properly angled paddle to clear the area.