He Hauls 4-Wheeler On Combine Cornhead

He Hauls 4-Wheeler On Combine Cornhead COMBINES Headers 19-1-32 "Saves a lot of time whenever I combine corn by myself," says Paul Ciha, Mechanicsville, Iowa, who hauls his Polaris 350 4-wheel ATV on top of the snouts on his Deere 9500 combine's cornhead. Ciha uses a screwdriver to pop the "ear savers" off two of the snouts. Then he drives the ATV up onto the header until the front wheels drop down onto the cross auger. He sets the parking brakes to lock the front wheels. The rear wheels set on top of the snouts. "I get a lot of strange looks on the high-way, but it saves a lot of walking," says Ciha, who used the same idea on his Deere 7720 Titan II combine before trading it last summer. "The tin on the snouts is kind of slick so it works best to have the cornhead facing uphill when loading so the ATV doesn't have such a steep climb. Sometimes I tie a rope around the ATV's rack on back and loop it down under the snouts, but most of the time I don't tie the ATV down at all. I've never had it slip off. As long as the cornhead is level it's safe to use. "I can haul the ATV out to the field, then unload it and drive it back to the house to pick up a truck or tractor and wagons. The ATV has a hitch on front so I can pull it behind the truck or tractor and wagon back out to the field. Or, when I'm switching farms, I can unload the ATV at one farm and drive it back to the other farm to pick up the other equipment. It also comes in handy if the person driving the tractor and wagon quits early and I have to finish combining by myself. I can drive the tractor and wagon home, then drive the ATV back to the field, load it on the combine, and drive the combine home so it doesn't have to sit overnight in the field." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Paul Ciha, 574 Delta Ave., Mechanicsville, Iowa 52306 (ph 319 432-6481).

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