making combine into swather

Animal

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I have a friend that has an old Gleaner combine and was talking to me about cutting out the bottom and removing the cylinder and using it for swathing seed crops. How practical would this be in your opinion?
 
(quoted from post at 13:59:47 12/15/13) The feeder chain would shell out too much.

The older Gleaners (E, A, A2, C, C2, and G do not have a feeder chain just a retractable finger drum ahead of the cylinder.
 
I"ve thot of the same concept but had no need to make one. Auger header would lose some grain. Could cut out the bottom front but still might have a ground clearance issue. Would work if you had a wide draper swather head and discharged in a rear corner, alongside the drive tire. You"d have to cut power to the rest of the mechanisms tho.
 
He should be able to find a IH draper at a decent price.They are one of the best at grain cutting.
 
The old fart down the road has an old Massey Harris 82. He's had me doing adjustments on that thing and working on it for years so he can use it. The inside of that thing is so covered in rust it must have been parked in a rice paddy for the first 30 years. I've tried to tell him.

I can tell when he's been tinkering with it as the yard is mowed. He uses that thing to cut the yard. Oh well, it's not like he will make it worse.
 
sounds like alot of screwing around with the end result being a morphidite pos when Mn and the Dakota's has many in good usable condition and can often be bought for $500 to $1000
 
The draper of a $1000 swather will do a better job than the auger and hole of the combine head.

The header will need to be a rigid type, rare around here.

Need to run a lot of cross shafts to make the header work, seems like a lot of extra stuff to go wrong.

Could scrap the combine and buy a real swather for the scrap price these days.

Paul
 

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