Pea Yields

[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.

[cottonpicken]

Anyone know what the cat head is like,its got some
sort of flex and ridged set up.

[Hopperbin]

Highwayman how would a 1020 IH flex header compare? I remember doing salvage operations in peas where nieghbours may have gotten 3 bushels and I got 25 in the same crop. They would have used a 30 swather then pick up. Still got one of them animals but not sure if should keep it.

[furrowtickler]

Hiway gut , did you have a 30ft JD header?? they were shat.