This year has yielded great soybean with very wet stem and I was having trouble getting the beans to feed right. I used 3/4" lock washers and squared the auger edges.
I had a custom harvester one time show me. how to cut some of the flighting off the auger, so that the flighting space in the center was the same width as the feeder house opening , and it made the crop not have to bunch up so much in the center. If you look at draper heads, the center belt is the same or about the same width as the feeder house.
Interesting...... I notice my auger flighting is cut back some so the flighting isn't so tall in the center but there is still flighting there. From my observation, the bunching is happening just behind the knife until the bunch is big enough for the auger to grab it. It was worse this year than any I have ever seen due to the green stems being greener than I've ever had before. The neighbor could only go 2 mph with his 9600 Deere and 30 foot head and my other neighbor was going pretty slow with his 2366 and 20 foot head and he waited almost 2 weeks longer before he tried it. It was certainly a tough year ............but we all had great yields too.
I have ran gleaners for a lot of years. Buy something else for a head. Combines are great. Grain headers are not. We now have a 9250 dynaflex. Much improved.
Thanks but I don't run enough land to justify a newer head. I have thought about an older Deere head but this year even the 900 series heads were having trouble. For me I think an air bar, if I could find a good used one, would be my best option.
@@SilverLineChasing The washers do grab the stems better and I have never lost a washer. The washers grip too hard and you have to hold the washers at the correct angle because they go on hard and will bend if they aren't at the correct angle when you try to pound them on. I failed to mention that you may have to raise the auger a tad and adjust the strip plate behind the auger. My old head needed no adjustment but this one had one spot where I had to move the strip plate just a tiny bit.
