Combines Problems with corn head feeding

[Dan]

Do you have the floor filler that bolts on behind the auger and reaches into feeder approx 3". That filler flatens approach into feeder so material will flow as good as posible. Otherwise maybe more rubber paddles or stronger ones. Good luck

 

[j72]

is your head new or some years oldIJ ours did fine when it was new, then after about 2 years our did the same thing. i tried roughing up the edges with a welder on low heat to give the flighting some bite, it helped till i got in some vines and the it just rapped up. then this year we decided to swap sides with the knives_rollers on each row(they are not reversable but you can take the ones off the right side and put them on the left and vice versa). this has helped so far jerk the stalk through better. it puts the sharper edge where it grabs more. but when we wear that edge down we will have to replace all of the knives. have in the past when we had a 6 row took a welder and roughed up the edges of the knives also.

 

[Kurt]

Yes I have the filler plate, and I just installed some new rubber paddles so they are pushing very well. It just seems that really what I need is retractable fingers. The material is pushed out away from the auger but some is pushed out into the feeder house and some is pushed out the front where there isn't any thing pushing back. I was kind of wondering if adding the tilt has made it worse as that has created a little more of a dead space between head and feeder house. Kurt

 

[Kurt]

This will be my 3rd season with this head. I problem have about 5000 acres on it. Yes the fliting has been wore down some and I have taking a hammer and made sure it was still cupped in. It moves the material fine and the stalk rows are pulling fine it is just the corn is really brittle from being hailed on that it breaks up easy. Then piles up in the center. Thanks again Kurt

 

[NDDan]

Yes dead space is a killer almost anywhere in a combine. Never been around lateral tilt so don't know how much of it could restrict flow. I do know Dibber did some work with old lateral tilt systems to get them feeding well. I think it included a homemade 6" tention drum with special drum stops along with moving drum ahead aways. Give Todd at Clinton Ag. a call if you have the older system and maybe even he might have some tip on newer system. Good luck

 

[Rolf]

Just a comment if it's all right to do this on here!! I got a farmer mate that's made a feeder drum (patent pending) that I think would help heaps in feeding stuff up the feeder, Im considering installing one my self, in my R62 it can be installed two different way's!! It replaces the front feed drum you can have it set for agressive or smooth. I look it up and see if Steve will let me post a picture of it on the upgrade site! I think he has a distributor over in the the states some were!! Rolf