Combines NH 970 platformIJ

[Ilnewholland]

About all I know is that they was made for the TR-85_95 combines. I had a 972 on my TR-95. The 970 would be a rigid head. They did not have Terrain Tracer or hydraulic reel drive. The basic header frame is about the same as a 971 would be so it may work for you.

 

[NHD]

Thanks, I'm looking at a 970 12' to mount the pickup on, so it sounds like I can go for it if the Rake -up isn'too wide. I'm checking that out soon.The reason we want the Rake-up is that sometimes malt barley is hard to pick up all of the straw when they lay straight ahead of of the combine.

 

[cutter2388]

If I could make a suggestion I would tell you to go with a sund attachment over the Rake-up. We harvest lots of windrowed barley and over the years and all the different attachments the sund has been the best. There is a bit of a price difference also. It sure is frusterating when they swath the barley and cant get it to lay in an angle so you have to fight it when you try to pick it back up.

 

[NHD]

Thanks for the suggestion.The farmer we combine barley for has a swather that has augers in it instead of the canvas. Do you think that makes it worseIJI think they are losing some barley because some kernals that shake out of the head as it is being cut ends up on the ground under the windrow.

 

[cutter2388]

Well sorry for the delayed response as I just returned home from hauling all my equipment south. As far as the auger head vs the draper head there is a major difference in the quality job that you will end up with for yourself to pick up. With the draper head on the swather and the right operator makes your job alot easier thats for sure, the grain ends up going into the harvester head first like it is supposed to. I suppose you cut in the valley where they have to swath it. I harvest alot of malt barley in Wyoming and we have the same surcomstanses it wont harldy dry down without swathing it. The last few years we have been getting more farmers let us direct cut, it slows the harvest a bit and the straw is a little damp but makes for great bailing and it saves them $10-12 an acre by not swathing so I guess its 6 of one and a half dozen of another. As far as the sund attachment I beleive that its the way to go, in flood irrigated ground and a poor swathing job the grain will lay in the coragates and the sund will do the best job of digging alot of it back out...