I’m not impressed with this equipment

[JDseller]

Brian have you tried to clean the inside of the down spout with a chimney cleaning brush. I have done that on our down pipes before. The set I have has round brushes in different sizes with pusher rods that thread together. I bought two sets to get over a hundred feet of rods.
My trouble spout was the drop into my old cooling bin. I had a batch drier at the time so the spout would not be used 20-30% of the time while drying. During those times the wet/hot air would go up that spout with bees wings. That combination made the inside sticky and corn would start building up on the inside. I had to clean the spout every other day.

[dono]

I still like that old music you used during the introduction which is the new music you are using now for the introduction. Just has a nice sound and beat. It definitely has that Brian’s Farming Video’s feel.

[jaredjones]

If you keep plugging the auger on the head all geringhoff heads come with a plastic box from the factory and inside that box should be a set of “fingers” “claws” that bolt onto the center of the auger to help pull clumps in the feeder house!

[timnichols]

All corn here in Eastern Iowa was fluffy, everyone had trouble feeding. Try pounding 3/4” lock washers on to your auger flighting. Put a couple at every row. It worked for me.

[JDseller]

On the corn head plugging up, we have had trouble this year too. Our seed guys say it is because the ear robbed the nutrients out of the stalk. So instead of snapping the ear off and the header just having to handle the ear, the stalk breaks at the base of the ear and the header has to handle the entire ear plus the top of the stalk. 12 and 16 row headers were not designed to handle that much fodder. We slowed the snapping rolls down on all varieties and had to adjust our ground speed slower in some, to get the fodder to feed better. This is with a reel too.

[JakeRose]

Ours had the same problem. Someone told us to take a grinder around the flighting and kinda square off the edge and make it sharp. Took us about 20 minutes to do so and it was incredible how much it changed and would grab the material and feed. All you gotta do is just run it around the edge of your flighting where it gets dull and smooth. Just giving it that new edge will make it a corn eating beast.

[SteveNicoson-ui]

Thanks for another great video Brian.
It had good content and was interesting to watch.

Surprised you had comments about your corn head. My thoughts are it may need some more adjustments. The other corn heads like yours that I watch are doing good. Just some thoughts.

You are knocking down the corn acres pretty fast it seems. Everything is running good. No breakdowns today so that is good.

Nice you can unload a little faster now at the bin site.

About it for now. Thanks.

The Iowa farm boy.
Steve.

[Mike-zsbk]

Takes me back winding down harvest, always a good feeling.

[donmathias]

Our old masseys had an 18' power flow heads. Four flat belts running over 2 3/4" rollers. About 18" between rollers. If you could get crop past the finger bolts you never lost it. It fed the crop up to the cross auger. We were picking up ryegrass dried for a week or so and with lifters worked a treat. Took lifters off and lifted knife up a bit of course for cereals. We has pretty flat ground but it was stoney. When you cut the ryegrass you were left with a lawn like surface underneath about 2" tall. If we had rain on it after cutting and seed was too wet to harvest the ryegrass regrew thru the swarths and was a problem. It would hang onto the swarth. Required patience. The joys of dealing with less than ideal conditions. Ofcouse thats what sorts the men from the boys.

[stevenphare]

Love the lays BBQ chip cab decorations . Perfect shelf sitters!😅

[douglassellers]

Glad the combine is working well for you.

[gunther]

We have a Geringhoff RotaDisc folding head and sometimes the cross auger becomes "untimed" where the flighting doesn't line up well with the center portion of the auger, probably from coincidence from where the flighting lands when it is unfolded and it locks in, and it can plug where the folds join at the center. Usually this only causes problems in the morning when the stalks are wet or if corn is down and staks will wrap around the flighting at the joint instead of feeding in to the center. We found that if we barely fold the head to where it unlocks the flighting joints and try to time the flighting on the folding portions where it aligns better and then fold it back down to lock it in place with the center portion of the auger it usually helps.

[BigTader]

Another great video Brian. I find it very interesting how some things are changing for the good after the election 🤔

[DonWelter]

Good progress despite challenging conditions. At least you weren't fighting mud along with the down corn...makes for a miserable situation. My son was shelling at his place and commented that the ear shanks must've been weakened...making for a considerable amount of ear loss. Don't think the auto insurance companies would cry about a great reduction in the deer herd. The yearly payout has to be substantial. Plenty of dead deer along the roads up in our area.

[bmoose]

I personally didn't see no noticeable difference in video quality. Keep the great work!

[Tonytall]

For a very dry growing season crop yield is remarkable !

[debi]

The corn in the bin says it all. Way too much foreign material. I would be ashamed to haul it to our local food grade processor. Not to mention they might discount or refuse to take it.
We run Lexion combines. Never had anything remotely like that in our bins.

[chrissyfrancis]

I watch a lot of farmers, I’ve noticed several having the same issue with the head plugging, esp in field with a lot of fodder.
Can’t remember who it was, but they got ahold of Geringhoff & figured out their settings were off. But, yes, a lot of plugging the combine in fluffy corn.

[tyleredgington]

I'm a millwright and work with a lot of farmers in Ohio. We did a bunch of work for a farmer south of Zanesville back in August. We got more rain here up north than you guys did but not much.

[leddielive]

Good to see a more positive Brian today. 😀