4400 combine

[shawn page]

This is kind of a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone here could help me out. I have a late 70's model John Deere 4400 combine with a 20 ft. header,and I would like to know if there is any way to adjust the side to side level of the of the header. I have checked the tires(size,air pressure,ect.)and everything checks out. Is there possibly an adjustment on the feeder house or the platform itself? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Barefoot Barney]

A 20 ft. header on a 4400,you're kidding right. Anyhoo,no way to level.

 

[shawn page]

Just curious, why would a 20ft. header on a 4400 be so strange?

 

[Barefoot Barney]

A 13' will give it all it wants in a good crop.

 

[shawn page]

Out here in North East Montana with dry land farming,an unusually good crop might make 25-30 bushel to the acre with spring wheat and maybe that or less with Durum and it seem to handle it very well.

 

[Barefoot Barney]

That's certainly understandable.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I had a 1976 4400 with a 15' head and it ate everything that I put to it. Central Il

 

[Anonymous-0]

Don't know about the Deere but on the Masseys you can level it with the yolk that you attatch the head with. Then you have to adjust the drive cuopler to line up. It would seem funny that there is no way to level it. Call the Deere dealer and ask him, there's got to be a way. I know on my 410 Massey I adjusted it all the way but it still hung low on the wobble box side so I let a little air out of opisite tire. That worked too.

 

[Mike Aylward]

Shawn, there is indeed an adjustment on the right hand side of the front of the feederhouse. Your operator's manual will show you. You simply adjust the bolt until the bottom of the header is parallel with the front axle of the combine. Deere did recommend up to a 20' head for a 4400 but I am assuming this would be used in a crop not taking in a lot of material. If in soybeans it would be a tremendous amount of head to have on it. In some small grains it might work ok, but you would not be setting any "land speed records" with it. A 13-16 foot would work much better. But it could be done with a 20. Mike

 

[shawn page]

I have looked in the owners manual but I can"t seem to find anything on header adjustment, but being that I got the manual off of ebay maybe there are missing pages. Any way thanks for the info.

 

[treatylinefarms]

no one mentioned this, but are your tires both the same brand? tires vary in height from brand to brand even tho they are the same size. just a thought.

 

[shawn page]

yes, that was one of the first thing's I checked, same brand same size and same tread pattern.

 

[Moline_guy]

I guess i don't think there is anything to adjust, i would pump up the side thats leaning and lower the side that isn't. Our 4400 use to hang to the left, i think with the cab and the long auger it was just heavier on that side, we just had a 15' head with a pickup platform, a 20' straiht head with sickle drive on the left would probably make it lean left even more. We just had 18.4-26 tires on. Our 6600's and 7700 with the 23.1 - 26 tires on seem to carry level, except when full they still seem to hang left a bit, again i think they are just heavy on that side because of the auger and cab.