I depends on what you are looking for. 4 row wides are everywhere, a 4 row narrow perhaps a little more challenging, but still out there.
 
looking for narrow head have 6 30 planter. ive heard you can make 444 into 438. locally there was 438 for 1700? they want 3800 for combine
 
Do you mean a 443? Should be able to find one of those at Stitzel's in Hamburg, PA or at Keiters in Halifax, PA.
 
You can build a 444 into a 543....4 row wide to 5 row narrow. You will need an extra row unit and 4 center dividers for 30 inch rows. A friend of mine did and pushed it with his 4400. Worked good. He had traded up to an 8 row planter and did the 5 row thing for a couple of years.
 
Sitzle has some in good shape and some that need work. Am going to check out combine in person hopefully in person in couple days. Can I get away with doing some work to old 443 or should get newer. Don't mind wrenching
 
I am not sure about that. I once cut beans with my old 4400 against a 105. Same sized heads. I got more done in a day's time. Mike
 
Is there something more to story??? Was the 105 driven by a competent operator. Losses out the back the same? The 4400 was touted as the replacement for the 95 by JD. Which one actually had more capacity in the real world I don't know but they should be close to each other. But a 4400 out cutting a properly set 105 with an operator not a driver, I'm just not buying. Simply to big a difference between the two. I know a guy who claims a 403 IH would out cut Massey 510s. Anybody who has been around both combines know that isn't true either.
 
The driver of the 105 was very competent. Both running the same size head. The 4400 (mine) had a 200 series flex head. The 105 had a regular quick-tatch head with floating cutterbar. I simply could run faster and get more beans. Nothing more to it than that. In 4 rows of corn it would have done even better. My combine was a diesel, the other one gas. About the same horsepower. There is a lot more to capacity than separator size. Mike
 
I ran a 105 with a 404 diesel hydro pushing a 643 corn head and a 20' bean head for many years.The injector pump was set up to the max with a big cc head on said pump I have ran it against a 6600 diesel with the 329 diesel and could beat it by 300 bushels per hour, both pushing a 643 corn head. Also had it in the same field with a 7720, both with 643's.
The 7720 had more capacity, but not a lot. In that instance we were dumpinmg into the same truck but he was able to make 6 rounds to my 5 and we were both running at power limit. Something very worng if a 105 gas could not out cut a 4400.
 
I agree about the separator size not being the sole factor in determining a combine's capacity. But when one combine (105) has a third size bigger separator then the smaller one (4400), it does make a difference. A 6600 had its hands full with a 105 and JD's own tests proved that. I'm not saying what you did that day didn't happen. I'm just saying something wasn't right because everything being equal 4400s don't out cut 105s period.
 
The tests done comparing a 105 to a 6600 were done with the original 303 engine in the 6600. The tests revealed a 5% gain with the 6600 over the 105. The later 6600's with larger engines and other improvements would likely have had a wider margin. Much of the improvement was in the cylinder/concave geometry area. The later combines had concaves that wrapped around the cylinder more and did so with less restriction at the intake of the cylinder. The crop mat goes pretty much straight in on a 00 series combine and on an older one the mat has a slight "hump" on the front of the concave. If my 4400 would have been a gas there would be no contest, but it was a diesel. My old 4400 combine had everything on it tuned as close as I knew how to do it. It did what it did. It would regularly handle 4 rows of 200 bushel corn wide open in second gear and save it. Did it for years. The 105 likely did not have the same level of tuning. No doubt it could have been made better. All I know is that the old 4400 cut more beans than the 105 did. Even the other operator told me he was surprised the 4400 did as much as it did. Mike
 

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