All-Crops and Soybeans Question
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Topic: All-Crops and Soybeans Question
Posted By: CrestonM
Subject: All-Crops and Soybeans Question
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 5:31pm
| Ok, so most Okies don't grow beans, but a lot of you guys do. From what I can tell, when you run beans, you are always adjusting the header to hug the ground. When you use an All-Crop with a hand lift, do you just keep adjusting it all the time? Or do you just set it in a "kinda low" spot and call it good? |
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Posted By: wfmurray
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 7:48pm
| If your ground is as hilly as ours in piedmont N C you will need to keep a hand on that lever most of the time. |
Posted By: Orange4ever
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 7:58pm
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Why didn't AC make some sorta caster wheels for the pick up? ------------- If you want a man to be a successful farmer, give him a Allis Chalmers tractor. If you want him to be a successful mechanic, give him a John Deere |
Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 8:44pm
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If your smart you hire someone with a flex head. Money well spent. Someone on here posted pics of a field combined by a all crop I bet it left 5+ by/ acre in the field. ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 8:57pm
That's what I'm saying! Have caster wheels an inch or two in front of the sickle guards, and have some sort of quick disconnect for the header. That would work, I'd think.
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Orange4ever wrote:Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 9:58pm
| we always had our hand on that lever, and could shave the stems off right at the ground. trick is...to have a level field when planting, unless you plant on top of ridges! disk furrows stay all year. |
Posted By: randy
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 6:07am
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In some areas they roll the field after they plant beans to push rocks down and smooth the surface out. ------------- CA WD WD45 D17 D17 Diesel 7060 8050 8070 |
Posted By: wfmurray
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 10:55am
| Dad mounted a seat backwards on the W C and uncle rode it and kept a hand on that lever.When we finished a field of wheat there would not be a head left. |
Posted By: WD45Diesel57
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 11:09am
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i ran my 90 in soys I was able to clip just as short as our 35 foot deere hydra flex and the 90 made a cleaner sample ------------- 1-B's, 2-C, 2-CA's,2-WF, 1-WC,1-G, 3-WD's, 2-WD45, 1-RC, 1-D17 Diesel, 1-D14, 2-D15,1-D17 row crop,1-D19 gas and All Crop 40,60,66,72,90 and 100 |
Posted By: Carl(NWWI)
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 12:23pm
| Set mine as low as I can go without bunching up and pushing dirt. We roll the fields so it's level, don't have to play with the lever much. Drop it and go. It's alot of fun! |
Posted By: Dmpaul89
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 2:11pm
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odds are if your running an allcrop you also dont have a perfectly flat seedbed. smaller equipment is hard to level a field with. if you have rocks forget getting the low pods not worth destroying the cylinder for a few bushel. i see about one rock per year here so i didnt worry much when i used mine. i did fill the header with dirt a couple times not paying attention. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 2:28pm
You mean the rock trap won't catch them all??
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Posted By: VAfarmboy
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2016 at 4:10pm
You set it so it doesn't run in the dirt and leave a whole lot of beans for the birds. |