Posted by fixerupper on August 25, 2020 at 13:57:39 from (108.161.63.205):
In Reply to: Crop talk posted by jon f mn on August 24, 2020 at 15:07:05:
Corn can be harvested using a flex head but I would not like to tackle a 1/4 section that way. The cutter bar is not built heavy enough to be cutting 32000 or more corn plants per acre for one thing. The second problem would be in running all of that very large stalk trash through the combine for days on end. The innards of the combine are designed for smaller amounts of smaller stemmed plants. When heavy green irrigated 150 bushel wheat is combined about that same amount of material is going through the combine as standing corn. You have to see it to believe it. The engine is using all the ponies it can muster up putting a big strain on the drives. Wheat is a small flexible grass plant. The rotor, cylinder, walkers can handle it. Corn is like running soft bamboo through the machine. I combined a small amount of corn with my old 105 Deere and 15 foot bean head to make a path to some replant beans. It worked but it was painfully slow. The corn stubble looked like a finely manicured lawn afterward but the penalty for that good job was high.
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