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swmn | The difference I've found is half the stuff is usually blown away before you can bale it. Even if it's not you get about 1/3 to half the bales as if chopped and raked. If the head doesn't have stalk stompers of some kind it's terribly hard on the rake and baler pickup. Ran a stalk chopper over some that had a chopping head used and then raked it because you weren't getting enough stalks otherwise, it gets pretty fine then and doesn't feed into the baler quite as well then. And I know of more people going away from chopping cornheads because of the 4500 to 6000 dollar gearboxes on those heads, not that they all go bad all the time but a couple a year adds up fast, and their limiting the combine capacity cause the heads take to much extra power | |
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Chopping corn head and baling stalks
