Combines SCH On UndersideIJ

It works very well allowing you to cut closer with the knife almost parallel to the ground. It's not that hard to do. Install the guards upside down and rebolt the knife sections to the underside of the bar. Not sure of the 8000 heads but on the 500 you need to do a little trimming with a torch to get enough clearance on the drive end. A must conversion for clipping edible beans and really helps in soys to get those bottom pods. You will also pick fewer rocks if that's a problem because the flatter knife will ride over easier.

I looked at my 800 head with the SCH system and I see how it can be done. How much lower will it allow you to cutIJ Can you cut lower without tipping tha knives as muchIJ Do the gaurds last as longIJ Does it matter which gaurds you have and do you reverse the gaurd at the drive end as wellIJ Thank you in advance, Dave

Keith, so glad to hear from you. You said to install the guards upside down and rebolt the knives to the underside of the bar. Instead of undoing all of the knives, could I just turn the bar end for end and rebolt the drive bar to the other endIJ This sounds so nice. How long have you run it this way and how do the guards hold upIJ

Compare two guards side by side and you'll see the difference. We ran this set up on a Series 3 for 6 years and now 2 years on a 25' 500. In that time I can remember breaking 2 guards and replacing them once on the Series 3. We have a neighbor with an 800 and he can't cut as low as we can. He went to this setup and can do a much better job cutting edible beans. Our '94 R62 has the tilting feederhouse and you can easily put the points into the dirt. Not recommended. Any SCH guard I know of can be reversed. All guards including the open top at the drive end have to be turned over. In both cases we started with a new setup and so never thought of reversing the knife. I can't think of a reason why that wouldn't work. We also run a Crary air reel and that combination will dramatically lower cutterbar losses. A must for edible beans and, in my opinion, will quickly pay for itself in soys. Hope this helps. Keith

Thank You Keith, and yes that does help alot and we also run an air reel. later Dave

Same here. We run an air reel as well. I hope to post some pics of a rock guard I made that works with the air reel. It stands up off of the floor about an 1 1_2". This lets loose beans roll in under. It sits behind the SCH. Thanks again Keith for sharing info with us.