combine corn with bean head

I had a forty acre field that was blown flat one year. A corn head would just push piles. I Had a JD 215 flex head and I ran the entire field with flex head and automatic header. I just slowed way down on the ground speed. I ran the reel high and slow. I even left the straw chopper on. I was able to run the field in two days. I worked for one day with the corn head and did not get 3-4 acres done.
 
It can certainly be done- just not too fast, with all the extra material going through. Chaffer/sieve settings should be the same, fan speed is normally about wide open on corn anyway, just takes time to clear the walkers.
 
Did that when I raised a small patch of popcorn in the 1980's. It worked, but it was slow going. Did not use the corn head simply because the deck plates were a bit too wide.
 
I would never do it unless I had no other options. A few years ago some farmers north of Marshall,Mn were doing down corn that way. It looked to be very slow going.
 
Years ago my old John Deere mechanic on his own farn did that with a 45 High machine with a Chevy 6 culinder engine powering the machine.
 
Many years ago, around 1960 our neighbor had a Cockshutt self propelled combine with a corn head with 2 vertical rolls for each of 4 rows. The header cut off the entire plant to run through the combine.
 

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