Cutting Beans With Old Technology
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- First I have to apologize because I didn't show how the row header works in this video, it will be in the next bean harvest video. In this video I delivered some hay, we cut some beans, and I got the opportunity to help our neighbor/landlord chop silage!
I ran a row head way back in the day for years and loved it. A lot less header loss! Neat to see 1 again.
It does a good job
I ran a six row on a 7700 in the 80's. Loved the faster ground speed. Didn't know anyone had them still.
we ran a couple row crop heads back in the day we loved them basically zero shatter they worked great
Yes love them when they work!
Those row headers were very popular back in the late70's and the80's.they were not real big but they did a good job
We had a 6-row header on a JD 6620 with duals for our ridge-till operation. Next best thing to autosteer! That header was great technology, although its speed topped out around 5 1/2 MPH. Those things were like the Laserdiscs of soybean harvesting -- short-term progression until narrow-row beans became almost universal & everybody went back to their cutter bars. Then those had to step up their game.
Yep still planting 30” beans here. Might try some 15’s next year. Seeing some yield advantages but not all the time
We ran a 653A for several years, on level fields we could run as fast as the combine would go in 3rd gear. Curves or hills were much slower.
Great video! Thanks to the family for sharing your farm you guys rock👍👍
Thanks Tom!
I farm in western NC. We just got done with corn. We had some unbelievable yields. I combine my west corn and it did 180 which is really high yielding for my area. Move to the next variety and it went 224 so I was stunned. Went to my last variety which was a 116 day corn which did 229. I had a full farm average over 200. We never have this happen. Beans are 6 weeks out because they were double crop after wheat but they are looking good too. I got lucky that I booked 3/4 of my corn crop at $1.00 over with contracts in September November and December. I got everything put up with corn filling both bins, dump truck full and combine still full. The only problem will be getting it to the feed mill when they are accepting.
Just a word of caution to all who have great crops, you need to go ahead and start tax planning now so you don’t get hit with a bill come April.
Hope your crops continue to be well.
That’s awesome!!! Been hearing yields are good in a lot of areas, but also hearing some bad stuff some places… I’m excited to see what our corn will do!
The last time I drove a combine was in 1999. It was a Case IH 2388 with an 8 row 30in row head cutting down milo.
Where at?
@@mannfamilyfarms381 That particular time I was in Tribune, KS working for my uncle.
Wow, that really brings back memories. we had 2-8 rows for JD9600s. Had a lot of people stopping and taking pictures of us running them in beans
Amazing… seems normal to us lol
I'm just amazed they still make them! Lol
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POV you can’t afford a bean head so you improvise 😂😂
Haha it’s supposed to be used for beans 😂
I remember when Deere came out with the row crop head. By that time my dad had started drilling beans and had no use for that head.
Wow crazy to think about that
I actually need a 4 row wide version of that header for sunflower harvest
Love the videos!! Keep it up
Thank you!
You all harvest backwards from us here in Ray county Missouri! We just started our beans yesterday,after we've harvested almost a thousand acres of corn. We got 105 acres of corn left,and 30 some hundred acres of beans.
Yeah gotta get the beans out first or else they’d get way to dry or to wet. Beans are finicky up here sometimes. Best to get them done ASAP
Actually. You are backwards from the rest of the world.
Well it's the only part I'm familiar with.
Anyway,isn't wherever you're from and how things are done there automatically the correct way?
In my area during the 80s there wasn't a 6620 or 7720 that didn't have a row head on it. As I like to joke, the original draper head.
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We have a 653A row crop header that we run on our JD 9400 combine. (I have some videos on my channel of it in action if you want to see it.
Hey man looks like your Fx4 could use some airbags towing the hay trailer. I put some on my truck for pulling my construction trailer and it made a world of difference. For the price you cant beat them...
Yeah absolutely I want to get some!
Another interesting video.
I use one for sunflower
The farm by me use to run 2 TR86 new Holland’s with JD 6 row snapper heads for beans and you could go pretty quick to, neat to see when they were going
Ran All crop headers in beans/corn/sunflowers back in the eighties, now we just use them in sunflowers...The drought defiantly effected soy/corn yields up here In Minn;)
Curious about your experience with them in flowers. Much header loss? Better than a sunflower head? We're getting into sunflowers here in IL and I hated seeing how much seed I was losing.
Yeah I think we got lucky with some timely rains but didn’t have near as much as should have
@@jacoblandis4535 They work very good in Sunnys, the belts feed the crop good, seed loss is better then pans been running them sense late 70s
Our beans that normally do 60-65, are doing 70-80 this year. Our corn that normally does 140-150 is doing 190-210.
Where are you located at
@@mannfamilyfarms381 we are in central Illinois. I have some harvest videos over on my drone channel. Thinking of doing a farm channel someday but we are a small farm, only about 2000 acres. Here is a link to my drone channel: th-cam.com/users/MomentumUAV
Thanks for the shoutout! We're happy to hear our lights have worked well for you. Great video!
Thank you and we love your lights! We have a few more tractors that could use some… 😉
I'm 70years old I have never seen bean,s picked with a corn head or row header
Watch the latest video to see how it works
What you can harvest beans with corn header ??
Watch my latest video to see it’s not a corn head
Sorry, an IH 1206 would have a John Deere 4020 for lunch.......Im just sayen
On power absolutely. 4020 is more comparable to an 806. User friendliness and transmission goes to 4020 IMO. Looks and power go to the IH
can u do a walk around on the bean header that looks like a corn head bc this is the first time of hearing about one of these
Yes I will
Many of the younger folks probably have no clue about row crop headers
Definitely not lol
Around our area many guys used them on the rocky hills
Could you do a video or show us the row header I've never seen once in person or ever really heard anything about them interested in finding out a little more about it
Yeah I’m gonna do an up close run through of it and explain how it works in my next bean harvest video
Alright man sounds good can't wait to see it thank great content keep up the good work !!
Why u cutting beans with corn head?
Watch the latest video!
Still have the row crop heads? Want to see if so?
Sell not see
You’re just a couple months too late! Sold it this summer to guy in South Dakota
How do you get that close enough to the ground? No soy beans or corn in Ireland but from watching TH-cam I'm lead to believe you gotta be shaving the ground to get the lowest pods?
I've been working for bean and corn farmers for 13 years now,and when I started with this last farmer 8 1\2 years ago,he actually taught me some stuff.
The beans don't grow pods til between six and eight inches up the stem! It's hard to notice on a green plant,but once the leaves drop you can see it real good.m
Yeah the head basically almost floats on the ground
Is that row header basically a corn head,or does it actually have a cutter bar? I'm intrigued! We got a JD draper 35 foter,and a regular reel header. That row thing is cool as hell!
It has a 6 sided star knife cutter on each row and belts pull the beans up
That sounds fascinating as hell! I'm gonna have to look one up.
As Ferris Bueller said, "It is so choice!" (another '80s thing 😉)
There's some vids of some running at idle on TH-cam, so you can see the works. Basically they use a wavy gathering belt (it's actually flat belting bolted to a chain every so often, almost like a gathering chain, so the waves mesh together between the two belts, which grab the stalks almost like gathering chains on a cornhead, and then there's a six-sided star shaped knife spinning right behind the grab point of the twin belts that snips the stalk off, so the belts keep the stalks pinched between them and pull them to the back and then when they turn opposite ways around the rear sprockets, they toss the plants in the cross-auger.
I've seen them run in sunflowers and sesame, some guys in the area used them on soybeans and even grain sorghum back in the day... Later! OL J R :)
the john deere 4020 is a good tractor but it does not compare to the IH 1066 there both good tractors but the 1066 is the best tractor ever made no matter what u say
Loud and red. Good for tractor pulling, otherwise a clumsy ox!
This is the first time I’ve seen silage cut that wasn’t cut just above ground level. What’s the reasoning behind leaving it longer?
The lower stalk has lower quality feed value. Aka, less protein and nutrients, more fiber. Kind of like the bottom of an asparagus stalk or a sweet corn cob. Edible, but not as tasty.
@@jacoblandis4535 why would some farmers choose to use the additional ruffage?
@@stokesjo82 they may want the overall yield and have good sources of additional feed to blend together. Almost all silage is blended with other grain or minerals before it is fed. They may have quality in other feeds and want the extra bulk just to help fill bellies.
in 30" rows, I'm in favor of row heads, realize 35-45 foot heads work as drapers
Yes sir!
Why not use a draper or normal head
We have the 40 foot Mac Don but we still use this just because we've always had it and its what we know. Thinking about getting another draper next year
For someone with no knowledge of combines at all almost, is that not a corn head?
It is not. That has a cutting knife and belts, whereas a corn head has rollers and chains
@@mannfamilyfarms381 oh, thanks for explaining to me.
Im sorry, but the fendt 718 or 818/820 is the greatest tractor ever made
To each their own 🤝
@@mannfamilyfarms381 You should try one