fixerupper
Well-known Member
20,000 pounds with a 20 foot platform and mod. 635 6 row head, minus engine power unit, two 23.1-26 tires on rims and two 10.00-16 tires on rims. That was the total weight hauled to the scrap yard.
It kind of surprised me there was that much weight but the corn head weighs a little over 4000 lbs alone. I hated that corn head the whole 19 years that I used it but when it came time to unchain it from the flatbed the thought "so long, my friend" went through my mind along with a slight lump in the throat. The lump lasted all of one second.
I did not cut it down much so the scrap yard called it unprepared shear iron and paid me 160 a ton. The crane grabbed that heavy corn head, picked it up like a toy and set it down way over on the other side of the pile, fully extended without a hint of being overloaded.
This green machine that took up space in the Morton shed for 30 years will probably come back as Chinese cars in it's second life. Jim
It kind of surprised me there was that much weight but the corn head weighs a little over 4000 lbs alone. I hated that corn head the whole 19 years that I used it but when it came time to unchain it from the flatbed the thought "so long, my friend" went through my mind along with a slight lump in the throat. The lump lasted all of one second.
I did not cut it down much so the scrap yard called it unprepared shear iron and paid me 160 a ton. The crane grabbed that heavy corn head, picked it up like a toy and set it down way over on the other side of the pile, fully extended without a hint of being overloaded.
This green machine that took up space in the Morton shed for 30 years will probably come back as Chinese cars in it's second life. Jim
