CUTTING CORN WITH A BEAN HEAD

[B GATLING]

I"ve been told you can cut corn with a bean head. We are wanting to put up 20 acers of corn this year but story as old as time poor folks got poor ways and the only head we have for our JD 95 is a 13 ft reel type. Any inpu or advice would be great.

 

[JMS/.MN]

It can be done but travel speed needs to be severely reduced to get all the extra material through the machine. BTO here still has maybe a thousand acres out, one quarter sized field is wind damaged and the corn head would not pick it up. Tried the bean head- maybe 30 footer (but sized for his JD), and gave up on it. Would not handle all the straw. Corn heads for smaller combines are cheap- few hundred bucks should find you one. Proper equipment always works better than jerry-rigging. Price of a head vs cost of 20 acres of inputs is minimal.

 

[Anonymous-0]

It will work but will be slow going. A few acres wouldn't be an issue, but I wouldn't want to punish the combine and head by running twenty. If seriously considering corn, would start searching salvage yards for a cheap functioning corn head, or would hire custom combining.

 

[PRAIRIE DOG]

what or who is BTO ?

 

[Skyhighballoon(MO)]

I'm guessing JMS means BIG TIME OPERATOR.

Mike

 

[Tom Yaz]

Bachmann
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Overdrive!

 

[DeltaRed]

Old 3/4 row cornhaeds are cceap(#334/335-434/435) for the old jd combines.Ihave an old #334 off a 55 that i would give you!Plus you would need to find corn sprockets and filler plates for the cylinder.

 

[Anonymous-0]

You might consider having someone custom shell it. Should cost about $25.00 per acre.