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I combine my oats every year with a 66 All crop. They do a nice job. The worst part like any older combine is climbing all over and under it to grease what seems like a 1000 grease serks. A picture my wife took a few years back.

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37 minutes ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

They’ve come full circle now. Drapers are where it’s at. 

Both styles have been combined.  Every draper header around here also has an auger to aid in feeding bunch crops. 

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1 minute ago, Big Bud guy said:

Both styles have been combined.  Every draper header around here also has an auger to aid in feeding bunch crops. 

You don’t really see that around here. No heads bigger than 40’ to speak of and the top auger must not be as important in soybeans. Or maybe 40’ just doesn’t need it?

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14 minutes ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

You don’t really see that around here. No heads bigger than 40’ to speak of and the top auger must not be as important in soybeans. Or maybe 40’ just doesn’t need it?

It really doesn’t matter the width.  Drapers don’t feed worth a crap in peas, mustard and canola without the assistance of a top auger. I watched Farris cut my neighbors peas and his Macdons didn’t have augers.  He’s a famous custom cutter and runs 7250s.  Only place he runs into peas is our area so he doesn’t equip his headers with augers.  I was watching him and I’m not shi11ing you when I say a 1460 with the standard 24’ 810 header would out cut any of those 7250s.  They were having to go really slow so that the crop wouldn’t bunch up on the header and have the reel throw everything back out onto the ground.  And the peas was only yielding around 15 bpa 

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1 hour ago, Rawleigh99 said:

Yep.  Only problem is the bottom of my header tore below the auger. Now I have to rebuild that. It's always something.

One of my parts combines is a 72 if you need parts.

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Thanks. I had most everything else on it running pretty good, but it tore the tin on the header underneath the auger.  I guess it had worn pretty thin over the years. I guess I just need to get some paper and make a pattern and get it cut and rolled at the local fabricators.  It hasn't been high on my priority list though. I only use it once a year at the local Farm museum threshing day.

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15 minutes ago, Big Bud guy said:

It really doesn’t matter the width.  Drapers don’t feed worth a crap in peas, mustard and canola

We just don’t have much of a variety that we can raise here. I bet over 90% of platforms built in the last 30 years here have never had anything other than soybeans in them. 

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I always heard they were the best for clover seed

I have never seen one with a corn header on it. thats cool. Was Allis the first to put a corn header on a pull type?

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Dairy Farmer I worked for during 3 H.S. summers had a AC 60 to combine his oats. It had a 2 bag Scour Kleen on it to separate out the weed seed,  that got fed to the hogs. He pulled it with his Farmall 300.

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3 hours ago, hillman said:

 

I always heard they were the best for clover seed

 

My dad and grandpa had a “66” All-Crop that they used extensively for clover seed. The best yield they ever had was 8 bu/ac. At the time that was very good money. It is still in the barn, but I don’t think it has moved in 25 years. The last clover we cut was with a 6620 with a clover screen. Even that has been decades ago. The Allis cleaned better, but the 6620 was no comparison on productivity or operator comfort. 

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