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CrestonM 
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 5:31pm |
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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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wfmurray
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 7:48pm |
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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.
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Orange4ever
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 7:58pm |
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Why didn't AC make some sorta caster wheels for the pick up?
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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.
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CrestonM
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 8:57pm |
 Orange4ever wrote:
Why didn't AC make some sorta caster wheels for the pick up? |
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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Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 9:58pm |
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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.
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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.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 10:55am |
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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.
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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
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Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 12:23pm |
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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!
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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.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 2:28pm |
Dmpaul89 wrote:
if you have rocks forget getting the low pods not worth destroying the cylinder for a few bushel.
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You mean the rock trap won't catch them all?? 
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Posted: 18 Sep 2016 at 4:10pm |
CrestonM wrote:
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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You set it so it doesn't run in the dirt and leave a whole lot of beans for the birds.
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