Combines help with Corn Header

[land_Surfer]

Conventional cylinders do not dictate material buildup on the feederhouse. Slow the feederhouse to around 350rpm and raise your header to about 10-12 inches below the ear (if you want to chop stalks, buy a stalk chopper. No american corn head was desinged to strip ears and completely chop stalks both. Also, make sure your deck plates aren't tighter than the stalk and this problem will go away. It is the same problem with any other combine (I can speak for other brands because I have owned them).

 

[2rotorsrule]

Thanks the the advice, but let me explain a little more. Opening my deck plates any more is impossible. the dryland crop varies from 110 bu corn to 30 bushel corn due to our drought. The low spots are really good, the dry spots terrible. as far as raising my header...i'm lucky to get under the ears at all. 12 inches below the ear is the ground! Another thing. it is our cylinder machine. OUr TR does not have this problem, and slowing the feeder house makes it worse two ways. It strips worse, and actually builds up quicker. It just like when we work in wheat or any crop for that matter. The Cat has a dust cloud in front of the window All DAY. The TR is clean. Its not the feeder house, but the cylinder creating the air turbulance.

 

[land_Surfer]

It is not the tangential threshing cylinder that creates the turbulence, it is the axial rotor(s) with front impeller flighting which creates a vaccum (not by design) that sucks the dust from the feederhouse. Placing a tangnetial impeller in front of an axial rotor will disrupt such a quasi suction feature (e.g. the JD STS). From Deere to Cats, I watch plant material build-up on these feederhouses all the time. If there was a practical solution all manufacturers would have adopted it. One thing going for the smaller TR's was the fact they have a much shorter feederhouse for material to build-up on. Such a short length and resulted in a steeper angle unsupporting of excess build-up on the feederhouse. The dust plume isn't going to creat enough resistance to cause material to lodge or build-up on the feederhouse. I have watched the new CR's build-up at farmshows. If material can build-up in that short of a run, what will it do in the field. Buy a dust suction fan for your Cat, I did. Aftermarket feederhouse dust suction fans have always worked better than any combine manufacturer has been able to design and produce. I use the belt-driven EZ View.

 

[2rotorsrule]

thanks for the info.....I'll check into it. Do you know how much they costIJ

 

[dakota]

If I read that right, you're talking about trash riding on the header keeping you from picking ears. I've had that before. The hotter it gets the worse it is. The only remedy I know of, is a corn head reel. (See your local JD dealer, he might know).

 

[brian]

I have the answer but I am perfecting it and will probably be adapting it to deere and other heads.I would like to try it on 12 row first because of higher buildup.