hugger head

How many acres would be an average for wearing stalk roll blades before flipping them. Mine has around 700 and feeding was an issue this fall especially on the left outside row. Upon cleaning things up I see leading edges are getting rounded. Is this in the ballpark for my head? It gets force fed but hey!

We put all new flutes on after the first 50 acres. We didn't realize how badly they were worn until we started putting the new ones on. World of difference. We got ours from Shoup. 8 row 30 hugger on an R62.

When I bought this head it had new flutes and spirals the year before. Guessing AGCO because of where work was done. I trimmed the flutes per bulletin first year. Never had before and after experience on that to say how much it helps.

We started cutting ours back several years before the bulletin because if you look at the flutes the corn stalk really can’t even get in the flutes when they are new. We would always were out the sprirals and the beginning edges of the flutes. After the cutting flutes back we were just cutting these stalks off and all the material was going through the processor which put undo wear on the rest of the machine and caused rotor loss. We started moving away from huggers and to Drago heads. Huge increase in capacity all the way around because the flutes open and close. It was like going from an auger head to a Draper. Hugger was a well built head but in my opinion the gearbox’s are built with the flutes too close together and there was no way to address it. We even used some after market flute designs and still was an issue. This is why the hugger left for the new Agco cornhead which I think is probably a much better design as a whole.