NDDan
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Combine parts should be shipped somewhere out of the wife's viewing area. You don't need to cut it 20" forward on both sides but if your cutting a little loose why not go 20". Then when you bend floor down a touch it will be a very gradual bend. When you weld cut back together it will have barely moved 10 or 20" forward. On the '93 or newer machines you could cut four inches from back floor out and tuck it under existing floor by 3" which will shorten floor by 3". This shorter floor will allow material to drop down and get under rear feed chain much easier. The '92 and prior machines always had a floor that was shorter than newer machines by 2" and they never much more than shined up the galvanized filler plate. That plate is thick enough to last forever even if exposed to a little more friction. The '92 and prior machines were not perfect with a little shorter floor but that was because of other reasons. Can't quite figure what you mean by that 11" area.