Combines airfoil chaffer on 1482

[ic1480]

Redgreen I have no experience with the 1482, however I have run 1480s with and without the cross flow fan. The cross flow fan kit, although somewhat cost prohibitive, appeared to be a viable solution to the problem. Coupled with an adjustable airfoil chaffer, it proved to be well worth the money in all crops, especially in short variety wheat, barley, and canola. One thing to consider, however, is whether or not you are trying to break up the straw too much in the rotor. I have also had excellent luck running a corn sieve in the front section and then two large wire concaves in positions 2 and 3. I also open my concave setting to about 3 as we prefer to thrash our barley a little rough. We also run our grate vanes in the accellerated position. These things have helped us out greatly and we have realized yeilds of up 100b in the elevator. Hope this helps.

 

[rod]

We ran a 1981 1482 with airfoil and a 1982 with case adjustable seive. Each machine had its good points. With the airfoil there was no guessing on settings just play with fan speed. Also no moving parts to wear out. Check your bushings in shaker arms. We are in Sask and grow most everything. There is a shortage of wind, we welded the first 5-6" of the shoe sieve in the wide open position to get more wind to the top, it seemed to help. We put an "open end fan kit" it one to see if it would help. Could not see any difference. I would use an airfoil again, we did like it and it did a good job on most crops on most days. It was great on barley, 80 bu barley, 30' at 5.5 mph. Trucker hated it though. rod

 

[Rotor_man]

We run early 1480 and 1482 with standard fans and harvest air foil chaffers. As per harvest's instructions we removed the first few rows(4IJ) of fins from the shoe sieve and cover the front of the chaffer with ripple tin, This helps the fan problem and really cleaned up the grain sample.

 

[larry]

I have a non-adjustable airfoil chaffer in my old