Combines Case chopping head

Hear that they are testing in North America this fall, not sure where. Go to the Case-IH home page, go to the european section to harvesting and you will see info and a picture of a 12 row chopper head and it hydraulically folds for transport!

Its hard to tell form the pictures, but I think that head (12 row chopper, folding) is a Harvestec head. CNH must be using these as OEM heads in Europe. Does anybody know for sureIJIJ The knife rolls that are in the North American head are not the greatest. After some acres, the stalks are not chopped, and look like the field was hand picked by a bunch of Menonites. If you want a good working head that really chops stalks look at a late model (04 or newer) Harvestec, thesy do an awesome job and have really good quality parts that last. The early ones were trouble though. The new Deere looks very similar to the Harvestec principle, but I have not seen one work.

There was 2 deeres runing across fence line looked like they did ok job of chopping. Talked to one of there workers and he said been a lot of trouble with the heads, replaced the shaft many times on the blades. like they carry new ones with there braking so often. Must be the operatersIJ Deere surly would not make anything bad. l.O.l

If your a Case owner and have a knife roll head, why would you want a head with all the stalk chopping junk on itIJ I always thought those heads did a nice job of chewing those stalks to the ground! The stalk chopper is a $17,000 option on a 8-row 30 JD head.

yeah your right...they do a great job.... Im still a lil lost on the newer style case heads i took a look at one the other day and it had the same design (basically) as the head we have in the shop. So i would figure it would do a good job as well

Trust me the 2200 or 2400 series will not with any Case-IH parts. It also will have more butt shelling on the ground than any other brand from what I have experienced.