Combines Bison rotor

Had one quickly built before harvest with normal set of Gleaner bars over concave and Bison setup over seperator. It works very well and even a bit better than standard Gleaner rotor with a mild set of my sweeps. Waiting to get it in a field with one of my machines with that has a second set of sweeps. We have only run wheat and rotor loss has been no problem. Have not did any kernal counts but had nothing more than other machines. Don't know how the rotor at Big Iron will work but it is headed hear after the show. I may be looking for a high output operation to test these rotors later. let me know hear or e-mail what you have if interested. Need some place for good testing. Just heard Gleaner has new rotor also. Been waiting for a picture. I guess they put on quite a show at I believe Husker harvest days. Take care

I would love to try one in wheat, but we are done down here south of Fargo. I have spoke to you before on the phone about the sweeps. The guy that builds the Bison rotor stopped out in the field one night when we were combining and asked how the Gleaners were running. He had a rotor out of a 9750 JD that he was going to experiment with. He told me that he did not have one for a gleaner yet and was wanting to build one. He was really nice and very confident about their design. I see his point about the separator side with the flights. I saw him the other day at Big Iron and he said that you had one up there. I hope the threshing side works out on it. It looks cheaper to maintain. You thought the one that you had up there was pretty good about rotor lossIJ

Dan, We run a 98 R-72 and a 98 R-62. Have 2500 acres of Wheat and 2500 acres of Beans. No Corn

Dan, Tell us more about this new Gleaner rotor, and where did you find out that Gleaner made a good showing at Husker Harvest Days. The marketing boys need to make a good showing at more shows if they want to push their North American market share, but I will vent about this another day. Glad to hear you got to vent to the Gleaner boys, hope they do listen. Kirk

I really don't know about the new Gleaner rotor. Reliable company rep told me about the show. I didn't have the time to discuss any particulars about the optionable rotor. Should find out more soon. I got the first all Bison rotor today and will try give it a try in wheat before moving onto other crops. I have good feelings about how this rotor will work. Take care

Couple questions for you. 1. Does Bison have a web site IJ 2. Do you have the hyper mods in combination to the Bison rotor IJ Thanks, Roger

And what is different about the Bison rotor compared to the stock Gleaner rotor. I'd never heard of the Bison until recently reading about it on this forum. Thanks, Tom langan

Sounds good Dale but you butchered Hoople. I forgive you. Hope you find the same results in corn and green milo. Web site for machine shop building the Bison www.partsman.com You might notice the rotor spining the wrong way with some sort of sucker ears. No ears for the Gleaners natural flow system. Don't know what degree Dale has hyperized but header and feeder will need some help if currantly having trouble. Don't know if removing every other wire from low narraw wire concaves or seperator grate will be necessary yet. Take care

Switched to corn late this afternoon and am having some trouble mostly with rotor loss. I will try to rotate the pegs on the seperator side and see if that will do the trick. The bison rotor is alot differant than the stock factory rotor. It uses a combination of stagered pattles over the concave and flighting over the seperator side. If it can be made to work in corn as good as soybeans it will be the real deal.

Talked with a dealership this week and they told me of a farmer that had put a Bison rotor in and couldn't keep the rotor loss under control. The Bison design looks pretty aggressive to me. The Bison also costs more...about $1,000 more than a Sunnybrook. For what it's worth, that's all I have heard.