Combines pich up Tine vs Belt

Well I guess it is six of one or a half dozen of another. I myself run Sund pickup attatchments, I can also use them to pickup edible beans. The maintenance isnt bad on them at all. In irrigated barley with corragates sometimes they do a bad job swathing and grain gets into the corragates and the sund is the only attatchment what will retrieve some of the crop. The worst thing about the sund is they are the limiting factor to how fast I can harvest, around 4.5mph is all the faster I will go because the attachment gets to aggressive with the crop. I think if i had a belt I could go faster. So considering your conditions they both will do a good job, if you have flat ground and no corragates youd like the belt but like my case its the sund..

I am willing to guess 90% of the farms around here had Sundraking pickup attachments. They do a better job than the belt when the crop has been rained on after it had been swathed. The tines rake the ground picking up most if not all of the crop. However, like the other guy said, there is a limit on how fast you can go with them. To counter that, most farmers put 2 30ft windrows together. I have one on my JD 95.

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cowdoc, I have a belt pick-up that I use occasionally. It picks up good but the belts can be a real headache. In some conditions the crop can get between the roller and the belt and tear the laces out where the belt splices together. K.A.

We have run sunds for many seasons with minimal maintenance. We do have a few rocks, and the tines on the sund are less apt to pick them than a belt. We do quite a few acres of canola, which is very sensitive to shatter so we run about 3-4.5 mph. When we get into our barley we are definitely more aggressive with the picker and do go up to 6 mph or more in some of the poorer stands. We do tend to wear it out faster than a belt pickup, but the Sund is not that expensive to replace. If you get a Sund make sure if a tine breaks that you get out with a hacksaw and cut off the tine that flops around, or you will also be replacing a belt.

We have a Sund and use it in peas, canola, wheat and barley. In perfect conditions I would rather have a belt. In the real world the Sund works good because it turns at ground speed and can pick apart any piles or bunching so you don't plug the combine. We put heavier tires on it as corn and soybean stubble quickly ruined the originals.