binder teeth

db4600 · Jun 28, 2016

As we enter the throws of summer and watch the grain head out as it readies itself for harvest we've had some heavy rain and a fair amount of wind. This along with the prime growing climate has left the tall oats patch with some lodged spots. There are long fingers made for grain binders that slid over the sickle guards and attached to the sickle bar with longer bolts. These fingers extended 12-16" and had a round rod coming off the point upward and back over the sickle itself to get under and raise the lodged grain up high enough to allow the sickle to cut off more of the straw and not just the heads of the grain. I've been on the hunt for any information or name of these extensions in an attempt to create something similar to save more of our grain harvest. Does anyone out there know what these "extensions" might be called? So far my search has been fruitless.

acken fromwisc · Jun 28, 2016

They are called lifter guards.

casecollectorsc · Jun 28, 2016

Or, "pickup guards".

moresmoke · Jun 28, 2016

modern version
Schumacher

Tim(nj) · Jun 28, 2016

Gaterman still makes one of the old style grain lifters like would be found on a binder or early combine.
Gaterman Crop Lifters

db4600 · Jun 28, 2016

Here's what the afternoon search has brought. Binder guard v. sickle guard. Original IH lifter.

db4600 · Jun 28, 2016

Thanks for the education. I remember these hanging on the wall in the shed. The year Pa made the set for the Hesston swather he was cutting the neighbor's low sand that was juiced with chicken manure. The grain was tall and it went down. After a day of cutting one way he took a day off to fab lifters and went back to cutting the following day with success. The next day I was placed on the Hesston to finish because he was combining at the next neighbor. They definately do help. Ironically we are binding on that same low sand we were on 35+ years ago.

big jt · Jun 28, 2016

Google "grain lifter" or click on the link.

I may have a set around here for a 10' binder. Ones from a combine should work also as the point end is adjustable. I ran them until the local show finally gave up on oats and went to wheat.

They work pretty well. Only problem I ever had was once the tractor driver went over a berm and one caught the dirt and folded under.

jt
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caterpillar guy · Jun 28, 2016

You can get them at shoups manufacturing. In Kankakee IL. We have a set like the ones at shoups, never liked them. Would set and hang on the tops not slide in and plug the knife. Would be ahead with a flex head like for beans.

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