Solution To Fix Worn Snapping Plates On Combine Head

Solution To Fix Worn Snapping Plates On Combine Head COMBINES Headers Carl Schultheis Caro Mich : “I’m a 72-year-old retired dairy farmer I sold my dairy herd in 1995 but I continue to run a farm shop The fellow who rents my farm asked me if I had a solution to fix worn snapping plates on his combine head I cut about an inch or so off the back edge of a worn-out plow shears and welded each piece into a notch cut out of the worn side of the combine’s snapping bars with the factory-machined edge toward the corn row The fix made them just like new again and he said they really worked out great It was a quick and easy fix and all I used was a plasma cutter and wire welder ”

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