Pickup heads

Dave H (MI)

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Anyone know the number of the IH models? I can find a 1015 but think there must be something a little older? Like a 915 or 815? And, of course, it doesn't have to be IH. Any fairly common older heads out there that will fit the 1660?

Trying to get my shopping done before the rush. :)
 
Look around for an 810 dummy head. This will be a 10 foot head with a pickup attachment. There isn't too much to them so any repairs should be fairly easy. There are several brands of pick ups. I had a Sund and it worked great. Melroe and Renn are others.
 
I have now, thanks. I see these listed on a few heads as an attachment. Certainly in the running if one comes up.
 
Donald and Pete, now you have me a little confused. I had it all worked out that 810 was a rigid grain table, 820 is a flex head. I don't find any pickup heads listed under 820 but found a bunch under 810.

This is where it gets a little strange. I see 810 rigid heads with and without pickup attachments. I also see heads listed as 810 that are pretty clearly just pickup heads. Some of these last ones are pretty fancy and have belt pickups but one I found looks like they cut an old baler in two and made a combine head out of the pickup side. All metal, tine pickup feeds auger, then into the feeder house. I guess you learn something every day but why two heads with the same 810 number and why the variation in the pickups? Based on my knowledge of balers, I would have to say the belt pickup would be gentler on the crop.
 
Dave, I have no info to give on the CNH heads sorry, I do agree in my opinion the belts [pickup are more gentle on crops, I like to set my pickup and travel speed where it just moves the crop up and into the header, very little shelling that way, here is a shot of my CASE built pickup, I have also used Sund units, heck I even have one or two here for sale yet,, but sadly too far for you, the last shot shows the Sund unit at work picking up Camelina seed
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I have a Sund pickup on a New Holland head. Mine started out as a rigid head with a Love cutterbar. I took the cutterbar, wobble box and reel off and put the Sund pickup on it. Might be easier that way than to find a dummy head. Maybe cheaper too, if you find one with cutterbar problems.
I have CNT to thank for steering me to the Sund unit.
 
Another very good pickup is the Innes Northwest Special.

Dad had one on a JD 55.

Something to watch for is the diameter of the bottom roller - it should be fairly large so the "fingers" turn in a "large" circle to keep shelling and shattering to a minimum or prevent it. The reason I say this is that before the JD 55, Dad had a JD 12A with belt pickup with a very small bottom roller. In windrowed barley, there was a continuos trail of barley kernels where the edge of the windrow had been.
 
I think your metal pickup head is an older Melroe head. The belts were a light weight aluminum. Very popular where I grew up. You can pretty much put any brand pickup on a head.
 

Pickup heads were 810's, 820 is a flex head, not used with pickups. IH sold a belt pickup to go with the pickup header under their own brand name.
 
Very common around here. I see at least a couple every year at consignments going for about $500-1000.



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The belt pickup will be easier on the crop and be better at pickup it up. Compression bar is missing also - helps even feeding. The belt style are driven hydraulically instead of by belt - no belt to break or get tangled with crop.
 

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