That is not just a bat reel, its the Macdon UII pickup reel with steel teeth on every bat. Makes a huge difference in a flat crop like that. Yes, I could have just pulled in with the straight header on the combine and tried to do it in one operation but I'm betting it would have taken longer and more frustration and wear and tear than the way I did it. Like Bruce said, the swather handled it better, got more crop, shorter ladder to climb down and up if something did clog the cutterbar. I know this because I did straight cut most of my other flattened wheat last October and have not forgotten the frustration and irritation of having to crawl slowly with the combine and still miss grain. Picking up wet badger and mole hills that would pile up in the feeder so I'd have to stop and get in there with a little shovel to clean it up. No,, the swather was the best option. That little JD turbo diesel will run two days on a tank of diesel anyway. As for straw, well it was so dry and brittle that I could fly at nearly double my normal combine speed to put it through. Came out the back like dust. You couldn't have baled it.
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