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[dakota]

I ran a 925F JD head ones in beans. Since we switched to draper heads in 2000 we cut all the soybeans for our customers with them 962 MacDons. This year we cut about 700 acres of irrigated beans. If your fields are fairly level the MacDons do a fine job. On those really flat flood irrigated fields they cut even closer to the ground than a row head. Our's would probably do a better job with finger reels but we like the bat reels better for all the wheat we do. We still go slow with those draper heads to cut clean and don't knock too many beans out of the pots before they fall into the header. At 3mph in 40 bushel beans the STS is not full.

 

[NHD]

My answer too is use the flex-head with fingers on the entire length of the platform auger. I have no experience with a draper head with soybeans. It would not be reliable enough in Ill. I do know of some guys in Ks.that get by with their honeybee's. Cat combines are set up differently than the twin rotors that causes the belts to tear. The NH 974 heads should have full length fingered augers available next season. I sure could have used one to replace my broken auger last July in wheat.