Steel Bars Support Cornhead Snouts

Steel Bars Support Cornhead Snouts COMBINES Headers Walter Miller Minerva Ohio has farmed all his life but had never harvested corn with a combine until a year ago when at age 60 he bought a used 4-row model 843 narrow row corn head to mount on his 1984 IH 1440 combine It wasn’t long before he had a problem with the tips of the snouts catching on the ground and buckling under “It made a real mess I spent a lot of time repairing bent snouts ” says Miller He came up with an inexpensive solution He bolted a 6 by 6 treated wooden pole across the top of the header drilling holes in each end of the header and then attached a series of 8 1/2-ft long 2-in wide steel bars to the 6 by 6 The opposite end of each bar is bolted onto the snout about 3 in from the tip “It really helped I like to keep the snouts as low to the ground as possible to do a better job of picking up down corn Now I can do that without having to worry that something bad will happen ” says Miller “The bars are mounted high enough that corn stalks keep flowing through without bunching up at all “I bought the combine 6 years ago equipped with a flex grain head The corn head was about 25 years old when I bought it I bought the steel bars at a local supplier of used metal which kept the cost down My total cost was less than $125 Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Walter Miller 9182 Knox School Rd Minerva Ohio 44657 ph 330 894-2828

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