Combines Drago cornheads

[venturis40]

neighbor ran a 12 row 30" on a cat they kept several feeder house drive belts on hand i had the same trouble with my geringhoff with my gleaner till i got the right shaft speed now i will never go back august wieser rosholt, sd

 

[hunter]

august, I take it you do not run stock cows in your harvested cornIJ Is there any truth to the claims of the guys with the corn head that leaves it looking like an old time ear corn picker, that less trash on the ground allows it to warm up faster and allows for more feeding by stock cows. Do you chisel you fields right away to cover some of the trashIJ thanks, hunter

 

[hunter]

august, I take it you do not run stock cows in your harvested cornIJ Is there any truth to the claims of the guys with the corn head that leaves it looking like an old time ear corn picker, that less trash on the ground allows it to warm up faster and allows for more feeding by stock cows. Do you chisel you fields right away to cover some of the trashIJ thanks, hunter

 

[shucks]

Are you saying your neighbor did not like the drago and you do not like the geringhoffIJPlease clarify.Thanks

 

[venturis40]

no cows i love the geringhoff, even though its the older PC model my field looks like someone went out and clipped each intividual stalk at a uniform height its great, all the stalks are cut b4 they get driven on in between the rows is a couple inches of fluff stalks cut lengthwise in pieces approximately 6-8" in length our chisel plow is too big to pull much more than 6-8" deep with our tractor but we use 3" concave twists pulled at an angle right behind the combine but it still leaves the stalks standing at the height you cut them, cause we dont have harrows on our chisel i cut at 12-18" in height so this year we disked with our white 272 literally right behind the chisel at the opposite angle (borrowed the neighbors cat55, tracks are really nice) less trash would warm up faster and these stalks dont burn well in the spring if you are having wet issues but there is also not much left by spring due to both trash blowing away and also breaking down thus the reason they wont burn but you still have the stump standing you would be much better off in my opinion to use a conventional corn head for no-till unless you have firm soils with no drainage issues if i had well drained rolling land i wouldnt hesitate to use a chopping head

 

[venturis40]

love the geinghoff now that i've got it figured out this time last year i was ready to throw a stick of dynamite in it wouldnt say that they didnt like it just that the 12r30 version on the cat ate a lot of header drive belts any chopping head takes more power and these neighbors are all about putting on the "show" tracked cat combine, 12r corn head, 40' flex 2 jd sts rotarys 3 semis going litterally balls to the walls 3-4 cat tracked tractors 1000 bu grain cart a line of land lords and potential land lords waiting to ride in the new toy the show was almost convincing if you didnt farm next to enough of their land to see them waiting for the cat service truck every other day to come fix the combine same neighbor also borrowed the new JD chopping head from a friend of mine and said that worked well also yet another neighbor rented a cressomiIJIJIJ not sure on the spelling after one season they bought a new geringhoff site unseen. they said the snouts were not stiff enough for downed corn in my own personal opinion, i would think the geringhoff would be a better choice if only for the reason that it slices the stalks at an angle thus exposing more area to decay also the geringhoff chopping unit is the row unit itself not something hung underneath the snapping rolls august wieser rosholt, sd