Combines Harvesting corn with a grain headerIJ

[AGCOfan]

My grandfathers neighbour use to do it. Farmed alot of Tomatoes and beans and wheat. What corn he didn't harvest for silage for his feedlot he combined. Usually less then 50ac of so a year. He would wear out his knives just with that 50ac. It was still worth it for him but would have gotten a corn head for anymore acres. I say if it's really dry go for it. If it's wears out your knives then might find a used head. He ran his reel all the way up to do corn. Take care, Nathan

 

[Countryboy]

Whenever I tried it the ears would get caught under the cross auger and cause it to stop. Maybe you could raise it up. If it is very good corn that is a lot of material to go thru the machine. Good luck.

 

[8780xp]

Neihbor does about 30A every year by me. Never has a problem. Goes slow and takes his time. Has a Gleaner E, er, maybe an F, I think, well, one of the two anyway. I would try it. Just lettin you know, take it for what it is worth. Good luck.

 

[MostlyGreen]

I had a dairy farmer who wanted the stover for bedding, so I'd combine 40 to 60 acres per year for him, up until about 4 years ago. I had an old 13 foot rigid bar which was used for a pickup head, so I stuck the knives and reel back on it for this purpose! I only took 4 rows at a time with a 7720_9510; - just charged him the regular hourly rate! No regrets!

 

[Boss_Hog]

A guy I worked for tried it once when he had some corn that was down really bad. He had the machine in low gear and slowed down as far as it would go, but it still plugged the cylinder. And it was a bear to get uplugged. So we put the corn head back on and made the best of it. Personally, I wouldn't have that much patience. Around here used 6 row corn heads can be had pretty cheap. It's not worth fighting the crop and spending all that time just to avoid having one.

 

[Goober]

A friend of mine was running a CIH 2188 for a custom harvester. They were combining corn for a fellow who had corn that was down so bad you could hardly see the rows. On the last day he told his boss to bring him the 30' flex head. They were running all the corn over the scale at the elevator and it was only averaging 54 bushels per acre. With the flex head they averaged 106 bushels per acre on the final 100 acres. He said he went slow (but had 30' instead of 20') the reel picked everything up and they did the final 100 acres that day. His only regret was that they didn't put it on 500 acres sooner. He said that if he was a small acreage farmer he'd never buy a corn head.

 

[Zig]

About 15 years ago, My dad combined corn in the spring. It was a wet fall, couldn't get it all harvested. Went down flat by spring, used 750 with a 15" grain table. Went slow, but did a good job, alot of material to put through that machine.