Went at the downed corn today...

paul · Oct 17, 2013

Put up a pic of my downed corn last week. Finally dried off just a bit to try some corn today. We've had 4.5 inches in the last week....

Anyhow, it drizzled on me twice, and was cloudy most of the day. So things are pretty wet.

Man, those stalks do not feed into the head at all.

Ufffff. Going to be a long, long fall.

Went to a better area of the field and made a few rounds, then it rained pretty good so gave up for the day.

Cattle are going to get fat - or sick and die - from all the dropped corn this fall! Just don't have enough cattle for all the acres.

So. Can you put a corn reel on an M3 Gleaner?

Paul

JMS/.MN · Oct 17, 2013

I"m sure you can, you have a 630 head now, right? Dunno about continuous hyd power source....you need the hyd pump setup like on a bean head, driven by the head power shaft? My flex head has that on the left side, used to run the finger reel. Curious where you found that M3....pretty hard to find one.

Tim(nj) · Oct 17, 2013

neighbor up the road has a green stripe M3 with a corn reel on an A630, so it can be done.

paul · Oct 17, 2013

Was looking for one for 2 years.

Gave up, bought a second F3 at an auction by Hutch. So I have options as I harvest....

Week later, Craigslist ad listed an M3 less than 10 miles from me..... Oh, man.....

Was on CL for 5 days, I started sobbing nights.... Wife said go check it out or there won't be any peace.......

So I brought it home.

Turns out the fella had a wrong phone number in his ad, so I was the only contact he got - by email.

Yes, I now have more Gleaners than some dealers do. It is a sickness.....

Might need all the corn heads before this is over!

Yea, would almost need to take the electric driven hyd unit from a bean head to power a reel?

Paul

2badlybent · Oct 18, 2013

Sorry to hear about your downed corn and wet conditions. My farm is located in northern NY state and my corn has just started to dry down to combine. It was pretty dry most of October but it has been raining a little each day and the forecast is that is the pattern for the next 10 days. The corn looks good and it should be a good crop if I can get it harvested.

A lot can happen between the time we plant and the time we ship the crop to the elavator. It is just one thing after another. Good luck on your harvest.

JMS/.MN · Oct 18, 2013

I"m thinking that with the factory setup you"d have the hyd speed control that you"d need, right in the cab. Otherwise you"d have to tap off the pump, fab some on/off controls and go thru a variable valve control.

JMS/.MN · Oct 18, 2013

Thinking again....always dangerous! Wouldn"t the down corn reel be driven off the cross auger of the corn head....maybe with a jackshaft in between to slow things down? Would not need a complicated hyd control drive system.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 18, 2013

It may be a last resort but I have heard of some guys using a bean head in down corn.

1206SWMO · Oct 19, 2013

Down corn is always a mess...Do you have any pictures of your M3..My F3 lost in an engine in 1984 and our dealer loaned me a low hour M3..It sure was nice..

Wisconsin Cowman · Oct 19, 2013

Check out onelonelyfarmer on YouTube with his down corn.
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paul · Oct 19, 2013

I have about 20% of my acres that look like that.

Pretty good mods.

What I run into is the corn broke about 10 inches off the ground.

Rather than pull through the rolls, it breaks off where it folded over.

Then most feeds in, but the one end row will bunch up the big muskrat pile of stalks.

A Roll-a-Cone type of end would really help me, more than a reel perhaps.

It works fair when it is dry, but with the spotty rain showers, and when the dew sets in, kinda the end of the day.

Paul

big orange · Oct 20, 2013

You can put a reel on a M-3, reel uses a orbital motor, you'll need a flow valve and hoses, and will plumb into the power steering. Also remove all the ear savers from the head, will feed much smoother. Had a reel on an M-3 in 2000, picked 450 acres of totally flat corn.

paul · Oct 20, 2013

Yup, was planning on taking those humps off when I get to the bad spots, seems they hold up the stalks a lot. Good advice.

It drizzled about 5 minutes every hour today, just kept everything soaked.

Went to my one good field, wow that was fun, cruising along at 2.5 - 3 mph, taking in 6 rows, can make a full round before emptying the hopper. I was in high cotton! Have to realize I still am running close to the ground for the few down stalks, and it was miserably wet, but sure felt like a good run today.

Unfortunately I will run out of nice corn in a hurry. Hope we get more dry weather this week, so the junky stuff can flow a little better.

Now, not everything is down. The wind had a hopscotch scouring pattern, it flattened a few acres, left a few acres, flattened a few acres.... So I have good pockets in the mess.

Wanted to take some pictures, but with the rain just didnt bother taking the camera along yet.

Paul

cshess · Oct 21, 2013

It really will help if you take a sharp chisel an every foot or o s chisel in a sharp indent with the point leading on the shiny edge of your auger. This small sharp edge grabs that fodder an stalk an will feed it in better. I have done that on corn heads an grain augers. Brother an i devised that many years ago when Pennell stiff sliprery straw would not feed in to our Case sp12

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