Combines Ontario Corn

We're just hoping for a nice east wind to stand it all back up...looked pretty bad in the morning, but wasn't so bad once i got going. Was all broke off about 8" off the ground, so it could be gathered easily. The JD permaglide points really shone today, wouldn't trade them for anything. Got a plot with one Maizex variety tipped right at the ground, and right next to it is some Micogen with almost no damage at all. Good luck with it!

I'm from NY,the wind hit here too,not much corn left standing.I run an older Gleaner know, I am go to update soon to JD.How well do the newer JD heads pick up down cornIJ,I may try to buy or rent one.

Our corn is about 50% down_50% up. looks like I'll be on tree limb lookout for the next couple days while on the headlands trying to get the rest of my soybeans off too.....thankfully they look like they've survived pretty well. Good luck

I'm using a pixall, which is basically a 40 series deere. Just put Deere plastic on and I absolutely love it. Pickes up down better than I imagined. I think the pixall rolls also help, but hear JD knife rolls are also good. I like the agressiveness to pull those ropey stalks through, and keep them from balling up under when you're scraping the ground. Have heard that 90 series deeres are built much like my head and can run as close to ground as you want. Today I was running at 3mph in corn that was 95% tipped over about 6" from the ground. That's as fast as I could run when it was standing.

We had similar problem in 2000. Series of 3 freakish storms laid corn flat. There may have been 50 stalks standing in 80 acres field. First reaction was....walk beside with pitchfork and help the stalks off outer edge of cornhead. One round was enuf....hard dirty work and very unsafe! Tried many tricks to get stalks to feed. (Deere 40 series w_metal). Painted entire head with Slip-plate, a graphite based paint. Had to recoat every day. Bolted sickle sections to auger with about .375 inch sticking out to grab stalks. Put on new stalk rolls. Combined one way. Still ultimate solution was Keldermann Corn Reel (www.keldermanmfg.com). It works. Check out site for pictures. Farmers have been known to build ones themselves. One last point is cornhead to ground angle. The cornhead needs to enter the crop at as shallow of angle as possible. Small tires in front of combine, wedge kit on corn head, or 90 series cornhead above 695,000 serial number. Hope some of these ideas help. My entire crop was flat in 2000. Still with patience sold 160+ bpa, and field loss looked at 20bpa. Be careful, and good luck!!!

Get a reel! Either find a used one or a neighbor that has one sitting in the back of a barn somewhere. They work awesome and save a lot of time and corn. We made a 6hr midnight trip in 2001 to get one from a friend and ended up buying it after we made one round with it. Now, all we have to do is put in a couple of bolts and hook up the hoses. It is a nice security blanket to have in the back of the shop.

Unless the reel can catch a few stray ears or put more kernels on the cob, it wouldn't have made me any money this year. All my corn was blown crosswise to the row, so it picked up well. Will a reel help if corn is blown along the rowIJ