Picking corn today

RBnSC · Aug 28, 2013

No pictures. Two wagon loads ear corn and 142 bushels with the combine making paths for ear picker. Sprung a leek underneath somewhere and had to quit. You think it's dangerous driving and texting you should try running a combine and texting.
Ron

JD Seller · Aug 28, 2013

How is the corn yielding?? I am hearing of ear rot issues in the south. I have talked to some friends in TX and they are having a record harvest. North and South Carolina too wet

As for the texting. My brother was doing that last fall. HE ran a BIG rock into his combine. Wiped out the front half of the rotor on a JD 9670 combine. It cost him about $4500 and three days of work. I told him to leave the darn phone at home the next time. LOL

Before guys start telling me you can't get a rock into a JD rotor. You can if it is a flat ledge rock about 18 inches in diameter. Went right up the feeder house and the crop accelerator throw it right into the rotor. He was running corn too so the rock trap was full of ears.

It tore out the first two rows of rotor segments and the concave. It messed up the mounting holes in the rotor too. They make a weld in insert that replaced the mounting hole.

We did pull the complete rotor after season and had it rebalanced.

So watch out texting and combining.

JMS/.MN · Aug 29, 2013

Every time we Gleaner guys hear stuff like that, we just smile. We"re not impressed with protection from rock traps- they"re full of ears, dirt, chaff, and shovel everything straight through. A rock like that, if it made it out of the header, would lodge the Gleaner feeder beater, and if pieces got through, they"d trip the rock door. ok, I did manage to run a 14 inch pipe wrench through mine on a slow startup after working on the corn head, but the only damage was making a slight curve in the handle, before dribbling out the rear end. Works fine on fixing leaky pipes that go around the corner.

JD Seller · Aug 29, 2013

That was the OLD Gleaner. These new cross rotor ones are a real bear if you get a rock or chunk of wood up into them.

Funny one. Neighbor always ran Gleaners combines. HE never really "Fixed" anything right. His rock door light/buzzer quit working. He ran a small rock through the combine. He ran about 5 acres that way before he figured out he was leaving more than half the crop in the field. The funny part was he went back and picked up all of the ears he could find an ran them through the combine. HE would walk along while his wife drove the combine real slow a long the trail of ears.

He still did not fix the warning light. He just bolted the door solid so it could not open.

RBnSC · Aug 29, 2013

We are picking about half of what we were expecting. The rain hurt us more than we thought. The duals work well maybe a little hard to turn around on the ends. It would probably do better if it had brakes. No rocks here.
Ron

BAnNC · Aug 29, 2013

RB,
Glad you can get 1/2 your expected yield. Up here there are fields that probably won't see a machine til time to chop 'em to plant the next crop. Water standing/running through veggie fields have devastated some fields completely.

Bob Bancroft · Aug 29, 2013

Amen.

Bob Bancroft · Aug 29, 2013

I also agree with you on the old vs new Gleaner. So, sadly, after having mainly conventional Gleaner experience for over 4 decades, and all the Gleaner dealers gone, I have a red combine.

rrlund · Aug 29, 2013

I can really smell the pollen in the silage corn today. It's gaining.

Picking corn today

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