Gleaner Grain Head Snoot Question

[Anonymous-0]

I have a 13' black series flex head for my Gleaner. I apologize that I don't have the model number for it.

My question is: what snoot options were available for gleaner grain heads? I run 15" beans and the snoots that are on it right now just barely fit between the rows (they are really bulky and wide). I have them adjusted so they a couple inches off the ground, but if I'm not really careful, I'll plow down a row of beans. Next year I want to run wheat, but I'm concerned I'll end up running over quite a bit that I won't be able to pick back up.

Thanks!

 

[Mike Aylward]

E, I have cut many an acre of 15" row beans and one thing you do not want to do is go right down the row when you cut them. Go at a slight angle to the row and you will get along much better. Also, if it is at all possible, go back and forth when you cut instead of laying off lands. This way you can get under the leaning beans when you go the opposite way. Otherwise, you will drive right over them. Hope this helps. Mike

 

[cadet trooper]

I'm guessing you guys have the generation 2 flex with the monster grain dividers and a step up cutter bar in 1983 or 84 they came out with the sreies 3 flat bottom floating cutter with shorter narrower dividers almost a mirror image of the green boys the difference is like night and day we had an N-6 w/24' generation 2 and an L-3 w/20' generation 3 what the N-6 could do in corn the L-3 hands down could do in beans.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I like to cut any row beans at 30-40 degree angle- for many reasons. Easier to see the cutterbar when not following the rows. No bunching over the rows. Sickle wears evenly, doesn't wear down the row sickle sections. Stubble damage goes over the entire tire face, not just over the rows. Rocks? tend to push them between the rows rather than gather them with the header. Residue, especially with older, smaller combines where the chopper cannot spread as wide as the header- residue is at an angle, doesn't plug the tillage machine. 45 degree angle, the machine rocks a bit much, lower angle is hardly noticeable. Field corners make for a lot of turning, but you get some nice long rounds through the middle to make up for it.