Combines QT Feederhouse History

[JHEnt]

From what I have been told the last year or so of 55's had them and I have never seen a 95 or 105 without one.

 

[Roy]

All 55-105 series were built with the old style feeder house with the beater in front. John Deere built and sold the intermediate feeder houses(they have JD serial numbers) mainly to mount the new style cornheads on the older 55-105 series. The new cornheads did so much better of a job especially in down corn.

 

[Matt_NEMO]

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what they costed to update back in the early 70'sIJ The guy that owned my 105 before me said that a 6600 feederhouse chain worked in the 105. Is this correctIJ Are they differentIJ I would think they where different because the 105 has a little bigger cylinder than the 6600. I remember dad cussing his old 105 when he changed heads. It seemed like a half of a days work. He used to do a lot of custom work, so we had a 4 rw, a 4rn, and the grain table. You had to have them girls sitting on very level ground when you backed away from them. He needed a slab of concrete. Good Times!!!

 

[DaveH]

I know that once upon a time we traded for a 1969 643 cornhead (check serial number books). We rebuilt a 1243 cornhead and used extra parts to update this old cornhead. I would assume that if this cornhead was a 1969 model, that the 1969 model combines had the new style feeder house. As far as the time it took to switch heads, unless you had an older combine, it is hard to believe how nice it is today compared to then. In those days, the feederhouse was part of the head, and to switch crops you detached the feederhouse, probably changed sprokets for the cylinder as there were no variable speed cylinders, and maybe swithed screens. That is one reason farmers stayed with beans until they were finished before switching to corn. It was a half-day job.

 

[polymoss]

Deere made and sold Quick 'Tach feeder houses to fit on the 95 and 105 (not sure about the 55). I have a original John Deere operators manual for the 95-105.

 

[deere_runner]

I have a quick tach feeder house for a 55 combine If anybody would be interested in it i would sell it also have a jd 55 combine would sell it to. It has sat for about 5 years but ran when parked. Has very good drive tires on front. plus two row corn head i think it is a 243. email me a jlkokes@midstatesd.net if interested located in south east South Dakota