Oats with Flex head??

I have an orange reel on my f2. On flat springs under header, should be clamp with a 3/8 inch carriage bolt. Take it off and clamp the flat spring to gather. Op manual will show you how to do it. Have to lay on back and shove cutterbar up with feet to get clamp on and bolt in. All it does is tie up cutterbar. Good luck.
 
The flex heads I am familiar with have a way of locking the head into rigid position. Don't know if I am saying that right, but that is what mine does. Having said that, I did my oats with an old MF swather, left them to finish drying in the sun like hay and then ran them thru the combine using an old IH 810 header that was stripped down to bare bones and then had a Sund pickup mounted on the front. I sold all the straw before Halloween to various people for decoration, bedding and hayrides and the oats went right in the barn for feed...dry and storable.
 
Maybe it doesn't happen elsewhere- but if you get stunted oats from flooding like I do, sometimes short plants don't feed so well on a flex head. When I had my F2, I bought an old rigid head off an F for a few hundred dollars. It did at least 200 acres of grain every year I had it. I imagine those heads are still out there.
 
Lock up the header, go underneath. Look for square metal tubing to which the knife assembly is attached. Push up on these tubes, and you should be able to bolt a U shaped bracket around them to keep them up. Series 3 header are like this; if yours is a series 2 it may be different, but there should be an obvious way to lift the knife assembly amd bolt it into place.

Ben
 
we've cut oats several times when they laid down with 313 flex on an F3, even cut milo without locking it, course we only cut 10 acres or so of each,if my mind don't change we probably won't lock it up anymore, the only thing you gain by locking it is you can run the reel fingers right down next to the cutter bar and it can't raise up and hit the fingers
 

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