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porky 
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 Topic: 66 combine and sunflowers
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 3:57pm |
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Will a 66 combine handle the short stalk oil seed sunflowers? I have read where there is an attachment for high sunflowers but don't have one and don't want to try and track one down. Any tips would be appreciated.
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jiminnd
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Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 4:24pm |
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Kind of off but my father inlaw had a 140 IH combine, to do sunflowers in the owners manual it says cut the flowers and feed into combine by hand, sounds kind of slow for hundreds of acres. lol
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Denis in MI
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Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 4:29pm |
I have seen them picked with a corn head on a john deere 4400 combine, but I don't know if anything had to be modified.
Hope that helps, Denis
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Rfdeere
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Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 5:06pm |
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As long as their dry and you can get them up the draper it should. The high lift header attachment is the only attachment listed in the Operators manual.
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wjohn
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Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 5:45pm |
Can't answer your question, but I really enjoy this video of a 72 in sunflowers:
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porky
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Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 6:11pm |
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Thanks guys. The 72 looked good in the video. Those guide pans look easy enough to fabricate- in my free time between 1 and 5 am. My wife is wanting to try a small plot . It could be an interesting project.
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jiminnd
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Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 10:17pm |
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Used to raise sunflower,combined with C2 and then M2, had sunflower pans on both, was the way it was done, later years used a John Deere all crop head, the pans work good if the sunflower aren't full of bugs and breaking down, used to have 300 acres a year.
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