Combines Replacing SCH equipment

I don't know how many acres we can get out of one but when its time I pull the entire bar and replace them. lots easier to pull the bar than take all the gaurds off unless you are replacing the guards too. One thing you can do is switch the sections from up and down to down and up. It lets the section wear on the basically new part of the gaurd and will buy you some time. Those gaurds are expensive but you just can't hardly break them. Before we cut wheat this year I took a hand grinder and squared up the edges of the gaurds. It didn't take but maybe 20 minutes and really helped the cutting.

We changed the guards and knife in ours but still have knife stall and it broke couple times. Went to different dealer and was told to replace the backin plates each time change knife.

we installed a sch on our 324 the installation instructions stated that when you change all the sections you should switch them upside down to right side up and vise versa to even out wear on the guards also if you replaced a tiger jaw_quick cut sickle or cut at high ground speed you need to put a bigger drive pully on the back of the head this makes a big difference in cutting and stripping talked to a sales rep for sch and they also recommended replacing the wear bars with the new roller guides, said this would eliminate sickle and head breakage if i recall correctly the cost was similar to new wear bars

Finally got a good buddy Gleaner guru repairman to install a SCH upside down. He was swaping out a Gleaner kwik-cut for SCH. He was tring to cut edible beans 1" off the ground. He got the SCH complete with roller guides. With a little mod near dividers and guards near head he had it running. He reports it cuts so low and so clean it will pay for itself in very short order. His brother ordered the system for his head and another for the CIH they have. They didn't know if they could flip as easy on the CIH but they will get it somehow. I did warn them big time on rocks but they said no problem thus far. Thanks alot to the guys that suggested this mod. We have vast areas of flat rockless ground that will look so pretty if we get to this mod. Thanks again

What do you mean upside down. To me that means one knife up and the next downIJIJIJ

I believe the last time there was talk about this was about a year ago. Might want to search back on one of the combine talk sites to get more specifics. Guards are flipped over and fastened to bottom side of cutterbar mount. Best I can remember from what I measured up last fall was it would lower cutting height by -+1". I figured this looked good for a guy can then adjust tilt back up if needed an maintain guards parralel to ground. Hopefully someone with hands on with this mod will fill us in on how it's working and how they did it.