He Reeled In Downed Corn

He Reeled In Downed Corn COMBINES Down Corn 31-2-32 When LeRoy Lyne couldn't keep downed corn from plugging up his corn header snouts, he decided to reel the corn in. He took the reel off a 15-ft. flexhead and mounted it on his 6-row, 30-in. Deere corn header. "The header would pick up the corn, but it would hang up on the snouts," says Lyne. "The reel worked like a brush. It pulled the corn stalks off the snouts and fed them into the combine." To mount the reel, Lyne built brackets to match the reel arms. He bolted channel iron to the back of the corn head and bolted the brackets to them. Mounting or dismounting the reel was fast and easy. "I left the reel lift cylinders on the reel arms and cut holes in the row snouts to attach the cylinders to the framework, but ended up not using them," says Lyne. "All I had to do to the reel was to mount the hydraulic drive to the corn head." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, LeRoy Lyne, 2750 Wilderness Road, Clay Center, Kansas 67432 (ph 785 427-2423).

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