Dave H (MI)
Well-known Member
For a lot of reasons, I have not been able to address this sooner. Last winter when taking the corn off the field, the head started to not function on certain rows. Chains would stop going round. Eventually (trying to remember) I think we were down to 3 rows working and the rest stopped dead...no grinding and nothing appeared to be stuck in them. So, since I had only about an acre to finish and two outside rows were working, I finished the field as a "two row" corn head. I may have put up a post or it may just have come into my head, but I had been thinking there were shear bolts that were gone and it would be an easy fix this summer. But when we got the combine running again last week and I operated the head, only one row on the end is not functioning. I have no idea why the others would have stopped and then started working again 9 months later. This is a big worry because I have a lot more corn to combine this year than last. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Why would rows stop functioning and then start again?