Combines Flat corn

yup, a hugger, especially the metal ones with the ear saver removed and the wedge kit installed will slide right under, add a reel kit - the old AC units can be adapted or there are aftermarket units available. No need to get the super high performance units, the main event is keeping the ends from dragging up. The reel will keep it feeding, it is a slow process but from what we have seen you can get 90+ % on a FlAT field. Sometimes you have to drive funny - not as in DUI but one way or even at a 45 degree depending on crop lay. Be careful on washouts as this can crumple a snout in short order.

We picked 500 acres last year layed over during ear fill(May 30th). 8R hugger with plastic snouts. 2 miles an hour on a 45 degree diagonal in the worst of it, maybe 10% loss. If you can find a row and corn is layed across row it is not to hard. If corn is layed down with the row you will have better luck at an angle.

correctionJune 30th) not May.

There is a Co in Tulia Texas called Roll-a-Cone. They make some sweep plows and other things. They make a corn pickup atachment for down corn that is supposed to really work well. http:__www.roll-a-cone.com_ Van

Tbran, by the way it is a 2003 hugger 830

Have used 2 different heads. 2 years ago was a 8-36 hugger and it worked great,had to slow down but it got 95% of the corn. The time before it was an A 438 black head,corn had poor roots and pulled out of the ground easy,put a reel on that time,ran .9-1.1 mph,got most of the corn but it was tedious.

Dad has a reel for a hugger 6r36 in the corner of the shed doing nothing. Turned out we did not even need it. The down ones did not even make an ear so there was nothing to get anyway.