John Deere 920 Soybean Head

John Saeli · Nov 14, 2019

Running a 920 Head on a 7720. In our 7-1/2" "solid" drilled soybeans, the drive end of the header will smash beans down, and only a very few are retrievable on the next pass. I cut back and forth. I cannot see a fix to this, but am I wrong? Anyway to minimize the damage?

casecollectorsc · Nov 14, 2019

I run at a angle with a JD 220 in 10" rows...don't miss many.

andy r · Nov 14, 2019

I have the same problem. Like the other poster said cutting at an angle really helps. Rather than being directly on the row the dividers are sort of opening up individual plants and slipping through. I pretty much have to cut with the planter rows as most everything is contoured and terraced. It is pretty bad when the skid plate(s)under the wobble box run directly over and down the row. One thing I have noticed is when I raise the dial-a-matic up a notch or two the pressure applied by the floating cutter bar on the ground isn't quite as much and more beans pass under and are still standing. Another thing I have noticed is the right hand side of the platform seems to not flatten as many soybeans. So, many times I will run the right hand side divider in the standing soybeans and the left hand side in the ground already combined.

John Deere 920 Soybean Head

John Saeli

Well-known Member

casecollectorsc

Well-known Member

andy r

Member

Similar threads