Combines 2388 rotor configuration question

As far as I know you can still get a 2388 with a standard or specialty rotor. From what you are saying I think you are looking at a 2388 with a standard rotor, which isn't that bad in some crops. My 2388s have AFX rotors. In corn I really like them. In wheat I think it is kind of a toss up between these machines and the machines I have had with standard rotors and in soybeans beleave it or not I would almost rather have the standard rotor. Yes they do a lot of pounding and hammering, but at least I could get the beans through those rotors. I realy have trouble running out of power with the AFX rotors in heavy green stem beans.

This is an opposite response to what the AFX does for us in the midwest cutting green stem beans. I don't mean for this to be harsh or in anyway downgrading your opinion but my first response to your loss of power would be that maybe it is because you are moving forward witht the AFX and not bouncing up and down with the standard rotor. I know that if you have "plural" 2388s and I have only one your advice is not to be taken without concidering your experience, however in my wheat, corn, and soybean operation I would not consider less than an AFX setup. Think of what is offered in the 8010!!

The Ml factory code was available in 2003 and is a standard rotor NOT an AFX. I think the standard rotor went out of production when East Moline plant closed. Any 2300 series combine built in Grand Island, Nebraska would have the AFX version of rotor in it which started with the 2005 model year production.

How do you have your rotor configuredIJ I have four straight bars on the back. I normally fun the vanes in the middle position. This year on one of them when I was cutting beans I took the four straight bars off and replaced them with eight regular bars and I also moved all the vanes in the fast position. That may have helped some but I still thought it should do better.

Unit2 Thanks for replying. I see your smile. It is snowing and the tv has my attention but thinking combines-- I run 4 straight bars on the back over key stock grates. I set the vanes in the middle and usually set the concaves on 3-4. I will also run the rotor at 700-800 with green stemmed beans. Our beans usually have the leaves off but are usually dry. We still have green pods and butter beans to contend with but with this configuration we seem to be able to move along 2-4mph with a 1020, 30ft head. These beans often yeild 60+bu. and are nonGMO. I have heard from some of my western friends that they cut beans with all the leaves on them. Now that would be green stemmed beans!!!Take care.

bubs, thank you for the reply also. When you get enough snow send some to Kansas, sure dry here. Our beans are always dry but sometimes have a few leaves on the bottom and a few green pods. Don't you have trouble cracking the beans with that high rotor speed. I can never run my rotors much over 600 with out cracking the beans. Maybe I'm expecting to much because this year most of the irrigated beans were runnning from 60 to just over 80 and I was running from 3 to 4.5 with my 1020 25' header.

Hey Unit 2 didn't you guys get any of that big blizzard that went through the plain states earlier this week. I am done my corn hauling job I hauled right at 45000 bushels.

Unit2, Usually the moisture is 14% or so when we are running that speed but still the cracking is only 1-2% and that is well under the 10% that is allowed by the crushers. We will on rare occasion have some 70 bu. beans and then the fields will be small. The only irrigation here is for seed fields and then it is not used every year. There are a couple center pivots that are used to spread water from hog lagoons but that seems to create a weed problem under that circle and doesn't increase the yeild that much either, or so I am told. The value of the manure has become a very worthy issue though. I was in eastern KY for the first few days of the week and it is extremely dry there also. The ponds are dry and the cattle are eating heavily on the winter hay supply. Flexible drapers are the coming thing around here. The $50K price tag keeps us all from having one. I understand that it will increase the capacity of the machine as well as let you have more hours of harvest. Just for conversation only and don't respond if it will devulge any of your secrets but what are the cash rents for dry and irriagted land and the yeilds expected from those acres in your areaIJ Our rents in Central Indiana just keep increasing to levels around $120 to 200 per acre. The yeilds are close at both levels of rent just the the compitition from the farmers with "gazillion acres and big Ba--s make the difference. Yields will average 170 corn and 50-60 beans. Wheat was great this year with 80-90 and double crops the best in years at 30-40. If the prices were just where the yields were we would be seeing alot more RED paint along with the other colors that do a fine job of getting the job done also. Take care and watch for the horney deer on the roads or those that had a crop failure and are just walking around with their rotors plugged.

Hey Al, was that good yeilding corn you were haulingIJ Now since that is done you can go back to trying to trade your worn out combine off for a new one. No we didn't get anything here in SC KS. In the north west corner of the state around Goodland they got around 6" of snow. I-70 was closed from Salina clear to the Colorado boarder but that was mostely because all the motels were full out west from those that were stranded out there.

bubs, I don't farm much, I'm mostly a custom harvester, Oklahoma to South Dakota, that kind of life, so I'm no expert on what cash rent is around here. From what I hear some of my local customers and neighbors talk cash rent for irrigated farms runs from $80 to about $100 maybe $120 on some really good ground. Dryland is from $35 to $50 and that would be mostly wheat. Those 80 plus bu. beans that I cut were on some underground tape irrigated fields. There are just a few of those around. Most of the irrigation is center pivot. Corn yields on the center pivots are from about 175 to 225. I cut one center pivot this year that ran 237, all the rest were around 200. I think that 237 was the best corn I have ever cut.