[rolling rocky hills]

I have a 2011 40’ FD70, I’m having trouble when running with the sprayer tracks and their farther out on the wings, (usually the left hand side) it likes to flip the material that is coming in from the farthest side up and over the reel once it hits the sprayer tracks. My only workaround is to try to go across rather than with or get the tracks closer to the Centre but sometimes you just can’t. Would replacing all of the reel teeth help or even adding a sixth reel? I think I have the reel tilted to the gentlest setting for the canola.

As a side note with this years super tall Canola, I had trouble with the feeder drum pulling it in mostly headed West, the solution I found was to add a 4”wide piece of baler belting to the two foot Centre sections of the cross auger after the flighting ended and turns into the 2”paddles using the factory ones for support

 

[bob123]

i think youve already got the reel cam on #1, so then it would just be running your reel as far up, back, and slow as possible. After that its trying different headings, or running the header with more tilt so it cant go over the back as easy, but that may cut your rtd capacity. I dont see how new teeth would make it flip less.

 

[DDF]

Do you have a pea auger?

 

[Don Boles]

What combine is it on?

I think the FD70 has the same two settings auger finger position available like current model does, center auger feeding in the long straw would be aided by running fingers in the advanced position, that is opposite to factory setting.
Put mine there a couple of seasons ago and see no reason to change it back, it feeds better in all conditions and crops come across so far.

 

[dumbfarmer]

FD1 feeds 200 times better in Canola is my experience. Hard to visually see difference between heads but there’s a difference

 

[SouthernSK]

Our FD70s like to lip canola up and over. How wide of a head are you using? Have you played with the reel speed and run the real slower. We had issues this year with this when one of our pea augers was stalling out or not Turing as fast due to a bad relief valve. Once we changed the relief valve we could go a lot faster as far as travel speed,

 

[rolling rocky hills]

It’s 40’ on a case 9230 combine, had it on my Lemon of a Lexion 590R before the hydro pump blew up. I have all of the parts for the conversion back if anyone needs them. Guess I’ll have to wait till fall to see if I can improve things with it. Thanks for the help

 

[meskie]

We combine canola on an angle if it has sprayer tracks in it.

we had a fd1 out for demo one year and it was no better then our FD70 for feeding canola And it did the same flip the canola over the reel when you hit a sprayer track.

 

[Littletimeoperator]

FD1 feeds 200 times better in Canola is my experience. Hard to visually see difference between heads but there’s a difference

Same can be said for a tall, fluffy stand of peas on our FD75 vs FD1. I can’t see a visual difference between heads (except more fingers on reel and drum drive chain tensioner) but FD75 would have to stop 5x per 1/2 mile pass to unplug head whereas the FD1 didn’t stop once all harvest. Changed relief valve for center draper on the 75 but didn’t make any difference. Is hydro system for the center just stronger on the FD1 I wonder?

 

[dfarms11]

After reading all this, I'm really wondering why I'd want to switch from my 635F to a draper!

 

[bob123]

ive heard of people putting a rachet strap across the header behind the reel to keep the crop down, anyone here tried this?

 

[BigAL02]

After reading all this, I'm really wondering why I'd want to switch from my 635F to a draper!

Yes, you really can't beat a full fingered auger head for reliable feeding in canola! I suppose in a world where money wasn't an object, a farm would have draper for every other straight or flex cut crop, and cut the canola with an auger head if not swathing.

 

[bob123]

straight cutting canola using my fd70 beside ff auger headers sure hasnt made me jealous but to each their own

 

[DDF]

Yes, you really can't beat a full fingered auger head for reliable feeding in canola!

We have the exact opposite opinion from our experience.

 

[BigAL02]

We have the exact opposite opinion from our experience.

Huh, interesting. Well, I've only run beside JD drapers, so maybe that is part of the problem. The older one I ran beside had no end to issues feeding if the canola was at all lodged. The newer one didn't really. I hear about drapers having canola feeding issues, but not really about auger headers. The only time I have run into feeding issues in canola is when the canola is about 5-6 feet tall, and one end of the header is in a lodged spot and therefore cutting low, and the other end is in standing canola. Then the canola tries to go right over top of the auger and over the back of the header, no matter where the reel is.

 

[DDF]

I assume all the drapers being talked about on here are equipped with cross augers.
If not, that’s the problem.

 

[BigAL02]

I assume all the drapers being talked about on here are equipped with cross augers.
If not, that’s the problem.

The ones I have run beside sure were.

 

[58west]

ive heard of people putting a rachet strap across the header behind the reel to keep the crop down, anyone here tried this?

Yes I believe one of the neighbours tried it. FD140’s though. I think they said it was an improvement but not a vast one. Canola fed bad for pretty much everyone here this year.

 

[dfarms11]

I'm thinking as long as you find something that works good for you, use it and be happy. I've never used a draper on canola but I havn't seen one take it in any faster than my auger. The only thing I'll give credit to a draper is for keeping a consistent and low cutting height.