Wilamayb Get that corn head in the filed this fall!!!

JD Seller · Oct 14, 2016

Wilamayb: I was thinking about you the other day. I was wondering if you got to harvest any corn with that corn head you bought off me.

wilamayb · Oct 14, 2016

No, this was my bean rotation this year. I should get to try it out next year.

I remember you saying that you had a 200 series platform on your 95 years ago. I have a 213 on my 55 and have had trouble with beans stacking between the auger and feederhouse drum. I've set the drum height and chain tension according to the manual with no change. I've also moved the auger in the head down and as far back as the strippers will allow. i can't get even feeding. It constantly pulses. Sometimes a slug plugs the feeder..

BY the way, I took your advice and added an accumulator from a 6620 onto my 55. It made it much nicer to run!

tomstractorsandtoys · Oct 14, 2016

If you find the answer post back as I am thinking about going to a 215 or 216 next year on my 95 as the old Hiniker floating bar is just about wore out. Tom

JD Seller · Oct 15, 2016

You may need to adjust the cutter bar tilt. ( bolts on the back of the parallel arms that go up into the cross pipe) This would be different for your combine than the newer ones and the feeder house face plate is angled just a little different. The adaptor feeder houses seem to be angled forward a little more than the newer combines are.

I like to run the guards tilted forward just a little bit. Yours sounds like it is tilted too much. That will make the crop lay on the flex sheets worst and then slug feed. When ever you adjust the sickle bar tilt you have to adjust the spring that counter balances the belt tension on the sickle bar gear box.

wilamayb · Oct 15, 2016

I did adjust the cutterbar tilt. I don't have any trouble on the front side
of the auger. All my trouble occurs between the auger and the feeder
drum. The crop sits behind the auger in the center and then surges
in when it finally piles enough.. I can walk next to the head and
actually see this happening.

fixerupper · Oct 15, 2016

I'm just thinking out loud here. Is there a slight raise where the feeder house floor meets the header floor? Even an eight inch raise can cause problems when the straw is sticky. The slightest bump sticking up can disrupt flow too. You should be able to run the palm of your hand over the floor of the feeder house and not cut your hand open on anything. No I don't recommend you do it that way but it gives you an idea.

fixerupper · Oct 15, 2016

I'm just thinking out loud here. Is there a slight raise where the feeder house floor meets the header floor? Even an eight inch raise can cause problems when the straw is sticky. The slightest bump sticking up can disrupt flow too. You should be able to run the palm of your hand over the floor of the feeder house and not cut your hand open on anything. No I don't recommend you do it that way but it gives you an idea.

JD Seller · Oct 17, 2016

William, check the height of the feeder drum. The newer combines are adjustable up or down. The stops have two setting. One is up for corn and the other is down lower for grains.

Does your header have a feeder drum with retractable finders or is it just drum the feeder house chains goes around???? I have seen both and the retractable finger feeder houses are older and do not work as well.

Also check when on how the retractable fingers are adjusted in the header. There is an adjustment on the left side ??? IRC this controls when the fingers retract. You need yours to release later which would be rotating the finger cross shaft counter clock wise form the left end of the header.

Wilamayb Get that corn head in the filed this fall!!!

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