Tilted-Up Header Snout Prevents Damage

Tilted-Up Header Snout Prevents Damage COMBINES Headers 31-4-10 Rich Mahlow of Zearing, Iowa, tilts the outside snout of his combine corn head upward whenever he opens a field so that weeds and hidden objects along the edge of the field don't catch it and cause damage. "It really helps when opening the field and also when operating next to a terrace. The header tends to catch in tall grass, which pulls the snout down so that it doubles back under the header and mashes it almost flat. Your choice then is to buy a new snout or spend three hours fixing it. It happened to me three times and after the third time, I decided I had to do something." He hooks one end of a cinch-type nylon strap onto the bottom of the snout and the other end to a tin shroud on top of the corn head, then cinches the strap tight to hold the snout in place. (The tin shroud is there to keep corn ears from flying out). "I use this idea on either side of the combine depending on which side is running next to a fence. I use it on my Case IH combine but the same idea would work on any combine," says Mahlow. "I like to get the header down so that I can get all the corn, instead of running the header high just to keep it out of the weeds like some farmers do. I don't run any cattle in the field so anything that's left out there is a loss." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Richard Mahlow, 71571 120th St., Zearing, Iowa 50278 (ph 641 487-7535).

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