Combines Narrow row JD beanheadIJ

not for sure, but I think that the Bish guy did that. made a 20 in bean head. I agree w_ you about how the cut beans though. I'll bet the rock ingestion would be less. but they do take more care. ck out harv's farm supply link for pictures of the head

I know of someone who is doing it right now and coverted a 36" unit down to 20" rows mainly for sunflowers. I don't think you can have the flexibility in row units when you slide them together - but works OK for sunflowers.

Sorry I cant provide answers to your question but I wonder why you want one. About 20 years ago, I hired a guy with an almost new combine and bean head and wasnt impressed with the job he did. In all fairness, I dont know if it was the operator or the bean head but he did a lousy job on the first field so we sent him home. Good luck to you.

I have run a row head from 1977 till three years ago, and I would advise anyone to never go down that road. Especially for narrow rows. It is the most service intensive durn machine I can imagine. I would fight returning to that thing real hard, and I knew it better than my any piece of machinery I have ever owned. Any good table has this beat a mile. gs

Tom Back when we regularly planted beans in 30" we used one extensively. If it was properly set, it did a great job - lifted up lodged beans, effortlessly fed in short beans, very even feeding to the cylinder, no reel to stare through and shatter beans, able to flex 6" from one row to the next.... I could go on. I parked it for the slight yield advantage and faster canopy for weed control with narrow row beans. Have you noticed how many posts here discuss various problems with flexheads like not cutting low enough, not cutting clean enough, uneven feeding, limited top speed because of cutting or feeding problems and so on. I just thought if a JD beanhead could be narrowed up like the new trend in cornheads, those advantages it had could be realized again. Have a safe harvest Gamaman

I concur, we had a 653, besides being a pain in the butt to maintain, it did a lousy job cutting the beans. The floating cutter bars we were using them and now did a far better job, with half the work.

Yes, flex heads leave a lot to be desired. Would you agree that the perfect head for harvesting beans hasnt been invented yetIJ Or maybe I just havent run across it.