Combines 2188 to r62

You made a good choice in purchasing the R62. Make sure that it has extended cylinder bars, extended helicals into discharge area, crop flow divider should be removed and replaced with a small helical. These options or modifcations will allow you to harvest in almost any condition. If you really want to have large amounts of capacity with large headers then replace original cylinder with the new gleaner CDF rotor. Straw for bailing should not be much different than the 2188.

I would caution you on the straw issue if it's really important. From what I see around here the gleaner rotary doesn't put out much straw and not nearly what we get with our Axial flows.

I think you will find that the straw out of the '62 will not be quite as broken up as out of the 2188. That's just off of our experience over a number of years of oat straw.

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Baled behind 2188 w_chopper, 62 w_ chopper, and 62 w_impeller. Not much difference in combines with choppers. less chaff and small pieces with impeller.

Brodale, Does your axial-flow have spec or afx rotor and do these produce less straw than standard rotor. thanks for your help.

Brodale, does your axial-flow have a spec or afx rotor,and do they produce less straw than a standard rotor. Thanks for your help.

We ran behind an axial that did not have the specialty, or the AFX. It ground the straw more than the gleaner, and it sounded like it! However, the gleaners run no reverse bars, and have the extra helicals in place to feed it thru' the cage better than stock, so I would guess that made for some improvement as well. We run a fine cut chopper now, and we were a little concerned that that would grind it too much, but we don't see any difference when we ran it slow, with no knives up. One straw customer complained when we went from the axial straw to the gleaner that the straw wasn't as chewed up, it didn't make as good a bedding. However, more made it out of the field. Good luck

just an amusing story, we had a custom baler crew fall in behind a R50 which had removed the spinner in preparation for baling wheat straw. The baler operator, remarked, "n$%^ I can bale this field in road gear" . After about 50' he plugged the baler and sheared the flywheel bolt and tripped the feed dogs. They ended up at about the same speed as the big conventional Deeres windrows they had been used to. The windrows were just precompacted he supposed as they sure looked small. The next day when the moisture was less they could move on better. On our machines where we have them 'hyped' without reverse bars, the straw is about 75% of what a conventional is. We bale about 6000 bales a year with a Hesston inline behind a R series of Barley and Wheat. The contractors like the straw as they say it spreads evenly when they have to do it by hand in places the blower won't get to. They like the Hesston bales because they will not slide off the wagons on hillsides because the cut side is up on the string side and it interlocks and prevents movement. Neat.

We've noticed the same thing - those windrows lOOK pretty small, but there is a lot of straw in them. Occasionally we'll have to rake them to get the underside dry enough to bale, and once fluffed up, you can see how much is really there.