A lot depends on how clean your oats are. If they don't have too many green weeds then you can direct cut fine. Also it makes a difference what combine and header you have. I have a JD 9610 combine. I run a thirty foot grainhead in soybeans and would NEVER use it in oats. I have an older 218 rigid head that I use for oats. I never have had trouble. If the green stuff gets too thick open the cylinder up and let it pass through. You will still get most of the oats but will not grind the green weeds up. Run your cylinder speed as high as you can get it. Then set your concave as close as the crop will let you before grinding it. Then just use some common sense. Don't try to run head high rag weeds through and then wonder why it plugged. LOL neighbor tied that last year.
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