Soybean cutting

DeltaRed

Well-known Member
My grain header has the sickle extended about 6" further foreward than normal. Is this for soys? does this 'attatchment' help?A precurser to a flexhead? Never saw any extended sickles before.
 
It was an option going back to the 50s. One of my 55s has it and the other doesn't. Both are from 1957. JD advertised it for maize giving more room for the heads. But the truth is those headers didn't have much room at all between the sickle and auger for any crop and that is why you see some of them up here in Montana were I am at. We sure as heck don't grow maize here.
 
Sounds like a floating cutter bar. Much better than a rigid head, but surpassed by a flex head when it comes to close cutting. Love, Hart Carter are common add-on brands from years ago.
 
It will help feeding. The cutter bar extension was originally designed to help feeding in soybeans. I've ran them both ways and it does. The standard bar always seemed way to close to the auger. This was better suited to small grains. Mike
 
If it's a hart carter or love it will work great for soybeans, but not well for small grains. They won't hardly work at all for grains unpess you tie them up, there are places to bolt them rigid.
 
One thing about a floating cutter bar versus a flexhead is that stones have to make the jump to get into the combine, some use a Johnson rock guard on flexheads and others hate them
 

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