harvesting corn in May

G706

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Landlord has a duck lake with a lot of leftover corn which is just going to mean volunteer corn problems so I thought I try the combine. No corn head and a spike tooth cylinder but you use what you have. Just about too much tall grass and almost got stuck twice, turf tires don't work that well in mud. Had a lot of cracked kernals, but the chickens won't care.
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I've heard of a few guys cutting some corn with a small grain head. Maybe I should have tried that - the grain head is way lighter than my 6-row. And I DID get stuck. Luckily my cousin was still home, and could drive the tractor to pull me out. Still have 6 acres, +/- to do, but we got another heavy rain Monday, so back to waiting...
 
Is this the first time that combine has seen corn? It's kind of hard for we Iowans to even think of a combine that has never been in a corn field. I combined six rows of corn with my 105 one time to get to a patch in the cornfield that had been replanted to beans. It worked but I had to go creeping slow and I had a hard time getting the 8' tall corn under the reel. Jim
 
Years ago in the spring I did the same thing with a Gleaner A with a 10ft head to combine 10 acres of corn that went down bad, The corn head was less than useless! It was slow going but I got it done. I have never seen or been around a combine with a spike tooth cylinder, Just pictures so I could see how that would be hard on it. Looks like its doing a good job cleaning it by the pictures. You just don't see many White combines in the field anymore, Thanks for the pictures. Bandit
 
Back in about 1954, our FFA chapter planted a couple acres of popcorn on our farm for a fundraiser.

When it came time to pick it, no one showed up. Dad opened up the cylinder on our A-C '60 All Crop' and made short work of that patch. First time anybody used a combine to harvest corn in our neighborhood.

Don't remember what we did with a hopper full of popcorn.

Stan
 
Second time in corn, I did this once before with less success and
nobody wanted half a bin of corn. When we actually grew grain
corn back in the sixties we had a Moline Uni Picker-Shellor. Climate
just isn't right for corn here.
 
Nice looking White Combine. My neighbor always combines 200 acres in the spring. About 10 yrears ago he bought a reel(kind of large diameter) to put on his 7720 combine with the cornhead on. First year he before he used we all laughed at him. He had the last laugh it pulls almost all the down corn thru the corn head.
 
We have used a spike tooth cylinder many times in corn and it will work great if the corn is dry enough. You will need to get it slowed down and sometimes take every other tooth out of the first and second row of concaves.
 

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