Pea Yields

[SASKFARMER3]

We use honeybees 30 ft with pickup real, plastic
fingers and use the deere float system on our
combines we're 2 in flat picking up fine just too
bad about the shitty crop.

[Hopperbin]

Saskfarmer will tell ducks unlimited his peas were doing 60 before the damage.

[furrowtickler]

The flex augers cost about 1/2 the Mac Don's ado.. and still hug the ground better with no pick up fingers on gaurds. Plus no canvases to worry about. Nothing can eat peas like a flex head period. We have had both, have you?

[FarmRanger]

Does the flex head cut cereals as well as the
d****r? Not sure which header to get that would
be an all purpose good for every crop(if there is
such a thing).

[TOM4CWB]

FarmRanger,

For Canola and peas you can't beat a flex.

For cereals a d****r feed way better when tough especially at night.

FD70 MacDons are split in the middle... and kind of are a happy medium... we use flex's on wheat and it works reasonable if it has full fingers the whole length of the auger tube. When tough straw... flex headers tend to lump feed because the straw circles around the tube and does not feed smooth where a d****r header is a smooth feed.

Rocks tend to collect ahead of the centre d****r and are much less a problem; where on flex Headers rocks tend to get sucked in much more easily.

Soooo we have Both a flex and a d****r.

Sorry... on Canola/peas the flex is tough to beat.

[ado089]

Furrow, It's been a while since running an
auger and it was rigid. I find the gain in
capacity on cereals far more beneficial
than on pulses. Things aren't the mad rush
in august when taking peas then they are
in sept taking wheat.

[furrowtickler]

Kinda a rush with peas leaned over and rain in the
forecast - for us anyway . Not mud slinging , just
ran both drappers and auger flex in wheat peas
and standing canola . I will take the flex any day.
Bought two 35ft heads for the same price as a 35
ft Mac don. Way simpler and way less grief than
the the older drappers and no 15 g adapter.. In
wht side by side very little diff with the agco 8200
and Mac don . Other flex heads run too small
auger IMO . Anyway good luck hope things are
goin good say hi to the old man ..

[furrowtickler]

Tom - we fixed the little bit of lumping and circle we had. Installed polly stippers on the back side of the auger that fit tight to flighting. Go exactly the same ground speed and bus/hr as a drapper day or night. Used some poly skid plates (cut 3in wide with a 45 deg lip down to match flighting angle and used self tapping screws . 15 min jod per header. Only did the 2/3 rds the header length on each side. Also helps to have a bigger diameter auger with deep flighting. Trick is same capacity in wht but 400 bus/hr more in peas over a drapper as you know.

[highwayman]

We've had rigid auger, honeybee d****r, JD flex
with AWS air reels and contour master and now
run 40' macdon fd70's. Macdon is the winner
hands down. Pricy header but does the job of two
headers. Would never go back go flex.

[LEP]

I have two neighbors, from different operations that had fd70's that bought
flex headers for their lentils. This was after 2010 when it was a wet harvest.

One guy said the macdon was just a d****r with a hinge. He has bought two
635 flexes since.