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Tom Pemberton Farm Life Love your videos mate, has the new bull got you yet?

Tommy's hand Cheers mate. Not yet, Gone to next door for winter

Yeah I probably wouldn't let that much debris build up on the feeder house. Too many moving parts and too flammable of debris for me..

Jesse Klaus Same, combines can go up in flames far to easy. I'm sure he will blow it down every morning hopefully

Yep a good leaf blower is your best friend... OL J R :)

There are two factors to consider here. First, corn yields quite a bit more than wheat on good farm ground in the upper midwest of the United States. It is not uncommon to see yields between 200-300 bushels per acre ( 12-18T/ha), which means you have a lot of material running through the machine, even with a smaller head. Second, heads for corn harvest can be rather heavy. Each row unit on a corn head has a number of large, metal components, like the snapping rollers, gearbox, sprockets and chains. A brand new 6 row corn head with a 30 inch (76.2cm) row spacing weighs 4051lbs (1837kg). For comparison a 620F flexible cutting platform weighs 3942lbs (1788kg).

Thank you so much for telling me this,i now see why you do what you do, and i love your videos mate, keep them coming, my whole family watch how you run your properties. also we wear your shirts with pride, Ian.

Another thing is, the combine can only handle SO much grain and material in a given amount of time... SO, you can either run a faster ground speed with a narrower head, OR, you can run a slower ground speed with a wider head. Both bring the same amount of material into the combine in a given amount of time, and both will take *broadly* similar amount of time to get the field done. Now, a larger combine can of course take a wider head. BUT, if you're farming on contours with sharp curves and stuff, the wider the head the more it wants to knock the crop over on the inside rows when going around those sharp curves. A narrower head works better for that application. On a big ol' rectangular field, it doesn't matter because you're not going around sharp curves. Then there's flotation. The wider the head, the heavier it is. If you're harvesting in soft or muddy conditions, the extra weight can sink you and get you stuck. We used to harvest some muck ground in Indiana for the nephew, and it was a task keeping a JD 9600 combine with duals up on top even with a 6 row head like this one! The BIL/nephew went to an 8 row head, and they soon found out they had to swap to wider dual tires to keep the combine from sinking in the mud due to the additional weight of the head (which is transferred off the rear axle as well, basically doubling the load on the front axle versus a lighter head). Then there's the fact that newer, wider heads are a lot more expensive, and more expensive parts to keep up. An 8 row head has 25% more moving parts than a 6 row head. Granted, covering 8 rows means each row unit is doing 25% less work than those on a 6 row head, but parts wear out together and that's a lot of parts (like snapping rolls, gathering chains, etc) to have to buy at one time. Again, the wider head in rolling ground runs a higher risk of damage-- like dropping the end of the head down into a waterway and mangling a snoot. Then there's the fact that basically you want the header matched to the planter... The header should either be the same width as the planter (number of rows) OR the planter should be an even multiple of the number of rows of the header... IOW, a 6 row head is half the width of a 12 row planter. An 8 row head is matched to a 16 row planter. Now, you CAN harvest corn planted with a 12 row planter with an 8 row head, BUT, it means that half of each round in the field, you're harvesting rows that the right 4 rows were planted on one pass of the planter, and the other 4 rows were planted on the NEXT pass of the planter-- IOW, they are not "mated rows" and therefore they can be a little too narrow or too wide where the two different planter passes abut each other, which means the head is leaning all the stalks on ALL the rows a little to one side or to the other (to the inside toward the center of the head if they're a little too far apart, or toward the outside ends of the head if they're a little too close together in the center). This can lead to higher header losses as ears get tossed around as the stalks are picked and can cause plug-ups if the stalks don't go smoothly down between the deck plates. Similarly, a 6 row head would be a poor match for a 16 row planter for the same reason-- only this time the outside two rows on every third pass would be non-mated rows from the next pass of the planter (1,2,3,4,5,6--one combine pass, 7,8,9,10,11,12-- next combine pass, 13,14,15, 16, 1, 2-- third pass; 3,4,5,6,7,8-- fourth pass, 9,10,11,12,13,14-- fifth pass, 15,16, 1,2,3,4-- sixth pass, 5,6,7,8,9,10--seventh pass; 11,12,13,14,15,16-- eighth pass, then the cycle repeats again). Later! OL J R :)

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klyonsden .... They'll haul from storage bins on the farm to the grain elevator and sometimes from the grain elevator to the river barge or different grain mills And feed Mill's.

BanditFarmer15 although I know that the new J&M's have the gate gauge there I think that gauge is for the auger angle but dont quote me.