tbran
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Per your thoughts, we sold new r72 and set it up this way,, 30' 800 head, SCH bar, large lat tilt pulley on the feeder chain drive to speed up the chain 20%. Installed the extended helical over the lH throat opening, we installed a concave filler strip in the second thresher grate for white caps, high wire grate, we extened two cyl bars all the way and thus removed 2 paddles. Moved the thresher grate 1 mark toward min as well as sep grate up 2 marks. Factory extended bars, extended one short helical futher into discharge area, removed all reverse bars and left them out. Where the center stars were bolted to the back up plate where reverse bars were we took the back up bracket to the paddles, hard surfaced it and sharpened it to use as a 'disrupter _ slicer" as copied from the Axial guys book. Installed 4 of these. We ran soft red winter wheat with quite a bit of volunteer ryegrass, 16% moisture approx 55 bu _ a. Were able to move on at 6 - 7 mph on the flat spots. Field loss was between 1_4 - 1_2 bu. _a. measured correctly. Most was cyl loss and due to green straw and all that green ryegrass. loss was almost nil in the few clean areas and customer said pacer moved toward faster the drier the wheat harvested. We also set up a R62 just like this except customer installed steep pitched helicals over the thresher area, hump kit and he has a 25' 500 hd. Same results. Customers pleased and so far we have had some of the toughest cutting conditions ever. Green straw, soft ground due to wetest spring on record and that darn ryegrass. I too would like to have a MF (we are a MF dealer also) to run side by side and compare on some of these W Tn 'slopes'. So far the MF guys havn't accepted the challenge. We told them ship a couple in here and we will give them an honest evaluation. As tough as the farm equipment business is we would sell snowballs to eskimos if there were a buck involved to feed the family and put the kids through college, but I digress.......