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Jeffersonville, OHksfarmboy - 9/16/ 15:36

We are done with corn harvest now but we struggled through the first part of harvest with our Gleaner 12 row corn head on a Gleaner S98. There are two problems that are closely related. The first is that the head takes in so much trash. We have had very dry conditions since first part of August so a lot of dry stalks. We are picking 60 - 140 bu. corn at 11 - 14% depending on the field and whether it caught a rain that another field didn’t. But lots of trash, leaves, stalks are coming in which causes us to have to slow down and somewhat greater loss over the sieves and the rotor. We have sped up the feeder house and it didn’t seem to help. Running feeder house around 340 rpm. The second problem is exasperated by the amount of trash and that is the continual piling up of the trash at the center carrier bearing on the horizontal auger. I think that this is a common problem with these headers from reading past posts on NAT. We finally borrowed a cornhead from a neighbor to get through harvest and it worked great except we had to drive 6.5 - 7.5 mph to keep combine reasonably full. We have two options. The we borrowed is for sale so we could just buy that and sell the 12 row head. I hate to give up our 12 row especially since we replaced stripper roll elements and gathering chains just last year. However I hate to go through this another year. The second option is to look for upgrades on our 12 row that will hopefully help solve both issues. In researching what might be available I wondered if others with these cornheads had tried the Calmer BT rolls and stripper plates? Would this type of upgrade help/cure our problem or are there other options that would be more effective? TIA

There's about 50 threads about upgrading those heads...my opinion is don't spend any more money on it, and get a Command header.

I have a few customers who have done the Calmer parts, and they helped, but the header still does a better job all around. Even if you bring in less trash, you still have the bearing hanger, the small auger that slips too easily, and a head designed in the 80's that entered production in and never thought about modern corn harvest.

Don't get me wrong, they are good headers, very reliable, and will shell corn...but they just don't have the features we need to deal with modern trash levels and conditions. The Command headers have been great for us, and in my experience, one of the best headers on the market for performance overall in the fields today.

The is a Harvestec built header, and I wouldn't have one of those if it was free. Again, just my opinion. EDIT: One place you said , another was ...VERY different headers!

Sorry if I don't have the answer you were looking for, but my customers ask me this same question every year for 5 years, and some have bought the Calmer stuff after running a demo header, and then tell me they should have traded heads, but now can't because they spent so much on the upgrade and need to get their money back on it...and some just keep asking it until they finally trade for a and then are happy again. The best way to sell a new corn head is to put one on a combine in the same field as an old one, and let the customer see the difference in the amount of trash coming out the back.

Chris

Edited by c_mayer 9/16/ 14:47