Combines Converting my 1020 to Orbit reel endsIJIJIJ

[greenstrat]

The wife and I did my 920 this fall on a drippy morning. I have a forklift to get the whole reel off the head which you need to do. Instructions needed better pictures, but call HCC, they will help you all you need with no crap. Took us 5 hours. the thing works like a charm and will absolutely not wrap at all in green beans. gs

 

[anteater6788]

We ran an Orbit reel on our Harvestmore head this year and I am expecting it to become an OEM option on new heads in the next year or two. This year we ran the Orbit reel in 12" tall green stemed 30 bpa soybeans and in 80 bpa beans that were lodged and laying flat on the ground and the Orbit reel did a great job of feeding them in smoothly. In the short beans the Orbit reel will actually lift them off the cutter bar and throw them into the auger, most of the time they won't even touch the floor sheets so they never have a chance to bunch.

 

[shucks]

Anteater6788,How do you like your harvestmore headerIJTalked to the folks at a farm show last winter.Sounds like a good header but I never have seen one.Draper heads are all the rage around here,how would the harvestmore compareIJFlex drapers are very expensive and I would like to know if the harvestmore would be a good alternative. Thanks

 

[sodak]

How does the orbit reel do with shatter lossIJ Will a CWS save more shattered beans in short beansIJ

 

[anteater6788]

We loved our Harvestmore, we ran about 850 acres of beans with it and didn't even have to stop to change a sickle section. I do think the Harvestmore has more capacity than a 1020 but I don't think it would keep up with a draper on the same size combine. We are running a 25' Harvestmore on a '02 2366 and in good beans we had field averages as high as over 700 bph according to the yield monitor. The Harvestmore will outcut a 1020, it will cut closer and faster plus it's built alot better. This fall Young's put on their own field demo's with a 30' Harvestmore head and invited 1020 owners in the area to come run it and from what I hear everybody was impressed with it. One of the larger CIH dealers from Illinios showed up and was so impressed with it he not only came back with some of his customers so they could see it run but he asked them to build a 35' model for 2388s and 8010's. This is our second head from Young's (had a 22.5' 820 before) and the product support from those guys is second to none. We are about 250 miles from their shop and had the only Harvestmore in Iowa but the way they stand behind their products we had no concerns about not being able to get parts or service.

 

[anteater6788]

I think an air reel would prevent more shatter loss but with the design of the Orbit reel you can run it much slower than a standard reel so it's much more gentle on the crop. One of the things I noticed about it was how few beans I heard bounce off the windshield compared to the past.

 

[greenstrat]

Cliff, I don't think you can blame the longevity of your sickle sections on mr. Young. FWIW, last year I went through about thirty of them, and this year I think I put on two. gs

 

[greenstrat]

If you are in dry, short beans, you will have to run the reel low enough to shove them into the auger. Shattering is inevetible. The auger will do it as bad as anything else. If the beans are carrying some moisture, doesn't matter much what you do to them. If you are in an area that is dry_hot and the beans are always thin and short, get an air reel. If you find yourself always cutting tall green stemmed beans this orbit reel will stop wrapping. I do not believe it actually helps much in feeding from what I saw before and after. All I cared about was to get the wrapping stopped. If you can glue a UII reel off a massey head, you can achieve the same results, but you have to take a whole bunch of iron to alters when you're done. gs

 

[anteater6788]

I was just saying that we had no breakdowns with the head, we didn't even have to replace any sections. Not having to replace any sections really has nothing to do with the head other than I think the smoother stroke of the Pro-Drive wobble box does take some stress off the sections but it's no more than a theory. I did run a peice of 1_2" solid round bar into the sickle in an old building site but rather than breaking a section out it slipped the drive belt and barely even knicked the section.

 

[shucks]

Thanks for your comments,I haven`t heard a bad comment about the harvestmore yet!