Home-Built Combine Header Tilt

Home-built Combine Header Tilt COMBINES Accessories 19-1-6 "When we bought a new Deere row crop header for our N5 Gleaner combine in 1982, it worked great - until we got on uneven ground. Then the head would some-times cut higher on one side than the other," says Don Gibson, Scranton, Iowa. "So a few years later I built a tilting adapter for the head. I don't know how Deere's tilting head operates, but I know my adapter works differently than New Holland's, which has a hydraulic cylinder on each side. My pivot point is a 3-in. dia. shaft that the head tilts on hydraulically. I used one standard 2 1/2-in. by 8-in. cylinder mounted behind the header near the feederhouse to tilt the head. I had to do a few other modifications to the hydraulics on the combine to make it work, namely adding an extra swing stack valve into the series already on it. I activate the valve and cylinder with a rocker switch inside the cab. "I have had this head on N5, N6 and R70 combines. It works great around water-ways, terraces and can be tilted far enough to clear bridge railings. "Head sticks out about 5 ft. further in front of combine than before, but that hasn't interfered with how the crop feeds into it. "I've probably got $200 or $300 invested - the swing stack valve was $150 from a salvage yard - in the project. Most of it was scrap metal and a hydraulic cylinder that I had lying around." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Don Gibson, Rt. 2, Box 139, Scranton, Iowa 51462 (ph 712-652-3558).

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