Combines Thinking of switching to Deere

Tom, All you need is an old wc tractor and the mounted picker AC had in the 50's. Our dealer sold one to a goose hunt provider. When they run it in the field the dealer notice a lot of shelling at the rolls. He said "no problem we can fix that" to the goose_farmer_rancher. "No! No!" replied the goose_farmer_rancher - "It's just right"! I believe the fellow was hauled into Federal Court for baiting - but beat the rap. My poor memory may be playing tricks on me - but think that picker had stripper plates like modern combine heads - Another AC firstIJ best, bill koob

Tom, why don't you let the neighbor harvest some of your cropIJ Then you'll have some hunting. What ever you do don't harvest their crop. Because then they'll switch to Gleaner and then goose hunting will be over for everybody!! T3

It's probably that geese don't like to land in standing stalks. It bruises their wings. They're probably walking over from your neighbor's and eating corn while using stalks for a windbreak.

Thats one of my favorite joke to tell during pheasant season... Birds are not as plentiful as KS and Nebraska.. When hunting on my customers land we tell him it's my fault he dosn't have any bird to shoot after all Im the one who sold him a Gleaner.........lOl

Do you use a white caneIJ You need one! Even the wife as we drive says "That field is done by a Deere head", she can't tell the difference between the rest of the manufactures. Deere leaves the corn stock field the highest and sloppiest, broken over stocks at two to three foot height, everyone else has the stocks cropped much neater and close to the ground. My AC190 cornpicker of the early 60's did a better job on the stocks. Massey heads of yesteryear are the only ones to compare to the trashy fields that the Deere's still leave.

If a JD head is fitted with the available JD knife rolls, it becomes a different machine. Having run a Hugger and a JD head on our machine (for different row widths) I would have to say that the JD with the JD knife rolls does a better job on the stalks.

No, I don't use a cane anymore, since my seeing eye dog took it and buried it, but I've heard geese swearing at bad stalk rolls when they landed at night.

JD corns heads are the worst. I have seen field that look like they are not even picked that a JD went through. Not to mention I heard our dealer say that when he runs the deere head on his case and then the case head, the deere takes more power.

All fields in this area have been chopped and chisel plowed so the only difference at this point is the brand of combine. This afternoon we watched several thousand geese land in the neighbors field to the north, 1 flock of about 100 land in mine, and many hundreds feeding in the field to the south. While we watched, the flock in my field took off and headed to the neighbors field. We need more Deere combines to keep a healthy wildlife population! We Gleaner owners arent doing our fair share. Tom in MN

As a proud gleaner owner and also owner of a deere 643 head, i was pleased as to the job it does, it has much less maintenace than the black A630 head and i purchased about as cheaply as the rebuilding job i would have need to do to the ac head. my cornhead has hardsurfaced rolls and deckplates and i could tell no difference in fields between the two heads. most deere owners dont run the head as fast as they should, no excuse for poor operation i guess.