Combines Wanted and Recommendations for a 6 Row Corn Head

Hello there, I would get serious pretty quickly if I was you as they may become harder to find in the next few months. I dont know wether you would be interested or not but I have a 643 johnDeere head set up to go on a Ih Combine. It is in good mechanical order and has been shedded. I guess one thing you need to consider is if they want the stalks chewed alot or if that is not an issue. If they do I would look for an older Ih head as they will do alot better job of chewing the stalks. I want $5500 for the JohnDeere with the bish adaptor. Just a thought for you.

I have a very good 6 row 1063. It has very few acres on nearly a complete rebuild. I am in SE Nebraska. The only reason I am selling it is I have been using it on a JD combine, and with the Bish adapter it does not feed as well as it should under some conditions. I have bought a JD head in not as good a shape by quite a wide margin but I believe it will end my feeding difficulty.

Winston and Shawn, Thank you for the follow up, and Shawn I agree that we need to get going ASAP if we are going to do this. Could you Please email me your contact information. Chuck

We put the johndeere rubber paddles on our 1083 and it helps the feeding a lot. We have it on a 9610.

What is the part number of the deere paddles that you put onIJ I would like to try this on my 1063. Thanks!

I dont know the part number. It is just what deere uses. You have to weld a little metal piece to the auger and then bolt the rubber paddle to it. It was very easy to install and didn't take any time at all. We just put 2 paddles on in line with the center 2 rows. It made it feed great in down corn.

Some questions about your auger modification. One of my frustrations with my 1063 is that in damp conditions when you are pulling some long trash through, the auger tends to wrap in the center where the left and right hand flighting overlaps, is this situation better or worse with the rubber flapsIJ Also, did you have to cut flighting off to make room for the flapsIJ And what about throwing earsIJ I see a lot of deere heads with guards hanging over the auger to catch flying ears, always assumed that was due to the rubber bats in the auger, did you notice any extra ear tossingIJ One more IJ, what conditions did you notice the flaps helpedIJ Thanks. I'm up for anything to improve feeding!

You don't have to cut any flighting off. There was an occasional ear that was tossed out but not too bad. It decreased as the paddles got some wear on them. last year was the first year we had them on. The corn was pretty flat on the ground so we had to take the whole plant in. All of the trash would build up in the center and not feed until we put the paddles on.