Combines SCH sickle cutting problems on 825 head

I'd try tilting the cutterbar down first to see if that helps. Neighbors have tried speeding the sickle up by the variable speed but broke three sickles last year.

We had a windstorm hit here this summer, same thing beans are leaning. We have the SCH on a 30 ft. head and are extremely happy. Adjust cutterbar tilt as low as we can go without pushing. Also, its not fun, but when I go with the way the beans are leaning, I run the reel as fast as it will go (depending on your ground speed) to help pull the beans up straight before they get to the cutterbar. Otherwise, just like corn, you will have to slow down. I would not run the sickle any faster.

The SCH sickle needs to run at 530 strokes per minute and at that speed it will clean cut beans at 6 MPH. You can get a larger drive sheaves from gleaner but if I remember right you may need to get the larger drive sheave from a series 3 flex head. If you really want maximum performance install the two flywheels that Rolf suggested in the hyper mods section.

switch to the new roller guides and get a larger rear drive pulley i went from quick cut to sch and had to order a new sheave or it stripped at anything over 3mph august wieser rosholt,sd