ksfarmboy - 9/16/2024 15:36

We are done with corn harvest now but we struggled through the first part of harvest with our Gleaner 3000 12 row corn head on a Gleaner S98. There are two problems that are closely related. The first is that the head takes in so much trash. We have had very dry conditions since first part of August so a lot of dry stalks. We are picking 60 - 140 bu. corn at 11 - 14% depending on the field and whether it caught a rain that another field didn’t. But lots of trash, leaves, stalks are coming in which causes us to have to slow down and somewhat greater loss over the sieves and the rotor. We have sped up the feeder house and it didn’t seem to help. Running feeder house around 340 rpm. The second problem is exasperated by the amount of trash and that is the continual piling up of the trash at the center carrier bearing on the horizontal auger. I think that this is a common problem with these headers from reading past posts on NAT. We finally borrowed a 3308 cornhead from a neighbor to get through harvest and it worked great except we had to drive 6.5 - 7.5 mph to keep combine reasonably full. We have two options. The 3208 we borrowed is for sale so we could just buy that and sell the 12 row 3000 head. I hate to give up our 12 row especially since we replaced stripper roll elements and gathering chains just last year. However I hate to go through this another year. The second option is to look for upgrades on our 12 row that will hopefully help solve both issues. In researching what might be available I wondered if others with these cornheads had tried the Calmer BT rolls and stripper plates? Would this type of upgrade help/cure our problem or are there other options that would be more effective? TIA