660/Case corn heads

dwag · Apr 28, 2012

Will a 660 handle 230bu corn, 65 bu beans? Also, remember hearing that Case sold their corn head to Deere in 1970 and only upgrade Deere made was doors on snouts?

Philt · Apr 28, 2012

I had an A2 gleaner that when I got into 150+ bushel corn I couldn't go slow enough for the combine to keep up. You may have a problem if you can't slow your ground speed down enough.

Case Nutty 1660 · Apr 28, 2012

the Beans will be no problem I would think it will do the corn but you will be creeping they were designed for high yielding crops the lit says 125-150 corn so on a small scale you could get by in my opinion cnt

DKase · Apr 28, 2012

Your biggest problem will be getting across the field before the hopper runs over. I have a 1400 New Holland and I have to take 3 rows rather than 4 to get the 1/2 mile rows.

John Saeli · Apr 28, 2012

I sped up the clean grain system on the 1665 by changing 1 sprocket. That"s all you"d have to do w/ the 660. She"s 40" wide already. Yes, the small bin will pose a problem.

Case Nutty 1660 · Apr 28, 2012

John, I have never ran corn yet with any of mine but I do have a 660 set up ready to go with a 402 head and two factory bin extensions, I bet that would make the needed differance by doing as you say as a friend of mine in MI has told me that is whwere their 1665's would bottle neck is the clean grain elevator a 25-35% speed increase would make a big differance thanks for the tip cnt

c.hess · Apr 28, 2012

I wont brag about head !Ours was one that had 3 gatherings chains per row.I think its number was 402 head.However it was on a 960 combine an after factory fellow from Baltimore branch set no load speed 10 % over specks measured at jack shaft an through his advice we removed the bottom screen an it would shell corn!Increased speed never hurt any thing on combine.Also it was used to shell high moisture corn. There was no pproblem cleaning corn eighter an speed was never changed even for small grain.

casecollectorsc · Apr 28, 2012

You should be wet enough this year to try some corn. Don't need 50 acres or anything. We plant a few acres just to play with my son's 660's or two row mounted picker. Everything else is on 30" rows, but with the corn nowadays 38" yeilds pretty good also!!

Case Nutty 1660 · Apr 28, 2012

I plant them 38" with a GULP 290 JD planter (can't find a Case,,yet) have planted four different times and one way or another never get to run any,,grows but where I have no way of drying I have to let it stand till Nov-Jan and the last time it was ready I was going to get the 660 out and the next day it started snowing and there was 6 feet of snow in it all winter then in the spring as it went down the Deer and Coons ate it as the snow melted!! I have some corn left and am going to get another bag or two to plant a few acres and cross my fingers, don't care if I make any money on it just want to run some corn!! LOL and as you guy's may know I am a wheat farmer corn is really alien to me, I even planted 7 acres of sunflowers one year and was going to run them thru the 660 planted them with the 290 also in rows, and some kind of black colored birds moved in and wiped them out in 10 days or so we are getting H20 finally in the last two days was very dry here before that so am hopeing all will work cnt

dwag · Apr 28, 2012

Thanks for reply's. I'm only talk'n about the 4 1/2 acres we own plus another 8 to ten nearby I'd do for friends. The one I'm looking at hasn't been run for at least 25 yrs but is kept out of the weather. What about the "Deere buying Case's corn head rumor?

Case Nutty 1660 · Apr 28, 2012

not a rumor Case did sell the 306 design to JD , I have seen JD heads with with Eagles in the gearboxes and power red paint under the green,( have had disagreements with several JD guy's over this lol) they also sold a hydro-drive cylinder drive to White or Gleaner don't remember which that was from the experamental Mark five machine that they had ready but did not release just scrapped when they dropped harvesting equipment in 1970 even though they did continue making 960's and 230/330 balers in France for a time, last combines here were 1970 models but they did build headers up until 72 the 402 corn head I have is a 72, if any one has a combine serialed later than 70 I would love a pic of the serial plate as I have seen/have a 70 but have never seen any thing later than 70 cnt

casecollectorsc · Apr 28, 2012

I have 2 306 Case heads. Have run them for about 25 years and also Deere 444 and 643 heads. Deere has enclosed gearbox for each row. Case has open gear set with 10 bearings per row. Gears are too small and wear out from running in the open and dirt. If one bearing goes out the unit has to come apart, which is ok because the other ones will fail soon anyway. Basic design is close, but no Case gearbox would be the same as anything on a Deere!! I've heard the rumor but don't believe it. Our 4 402 heads all have the track logo on the serial number!!

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