Combines Anyone make a AFX style rotor front for 60 series rotorIJ

[swede]

Yes!Supposed to be this fall.I think the price was to be around $1,600 or so.This was told to me by a Stewart person.I hope my memory is close on the price. There is a company marketing the Stewart products,but I can't recall it.It shows up in on of the posts down below.that's where I first read about that.

 

[aged1440]

i believe May Wes is the company you are thinking ofIJ

 

[chads]

Check with your CaseIH dealer. local dealer told me there will be one available for the 60 series through parts, hopefully this fall. Chads

 

[farmert]

worthington ag parts had one at the farm progress show looked ok to me looks like they make an 80 version as well

 

[Deadduck]

When I first contacted Stewart Steel about trying to get a rotor kit, they told me that Maurer Mfg. was distributing their kits in the US. These are the same guys that make the grain bin extensions, so most all combine dealers can handle their products.

 

[swede]

Yeah,Maurer is the one. I wonder why IH didn't pursue this a long time ago.I can see why there might have been some issues with the standard rotor in the beginning,but after they perfected the spec rotor,there should have been a better front. It had to have taken a lot of head-scratching to figure out the elephant ears with the bend and all,and then to use them as an agitator while the cone vanes screwed the crop in. Seems like the inverse way to go about it,but then I'm not an engineer.

 

[Anteater6788]

I was told at a combine clinic by a CIH rep that earlier this summer they were approved funding by CNH to start work on an AFX rotor for the 66 series combines but he thought it would be at least next spring before it was released.

 

[John_W]

This is just a guess, but I suspect there were some patent issues between NH and IH and that IH wound up using the "elephant ears". I think the same engineer worked for both IH and NH at different times back in the late 70's when the Axial Flow and Twin Rotors were being developed.