G'Day brassring We have installed Dans rotor sweeps idea in our 94 R62 for this years harvest, as we have been a bit worried of it pushing our very dry type of crops out the rotor (10% humidity 20 to 30 degrees C here) but they have been absolutely great in moving crop through our machine. We currently have been cutting lentils off at ground level and have reduced out rotor to 190 rev's (as slow as it goes) and moving along when it's hot 25 + degrees C at 7 to 7.5 km_hr with our 30 ft flex front! green patches are not a problem and we have had less losses out the back of the machine. We have only installed one set of rotor sweeps in our machine, one near the concave side of the sep section then 180 degrees opposite and at the discharge end is the second set, it works out to be about a 7 inch pitch sweep, we have also shimmed our rotor bars out by 12mm which has helped with rotor losses as well, using ROM's analogy of a fast thin mat of material going thou the rotor and we are sure it has helped with feeding as well! (no dust out the feeder house) ROM came up with the fact that we had a strip of wear on our cage just left of the concave that must have had stalled material that was going round and round in that spot, now with the rotor sweeps that just stick in to the concave area (by about and inch) there is no constipation in the spot or anywhere else for that matter in the processor!! JR over in East of our state is looking at putting a second set of rotor sweeps in his R72!!! wow will that get up and boogy!! Just for anyones info: in lentils at 20 lbs boost average we seem to get around 20 to 22 liters_hour fuel consumption over a 12 hour day of work that with stopping to unload and a few stops to blow out the skid plates of dirt. Rotor gear box is not getting the crap pounded out of it because it's smoothed out with the rotor sweeps, ground speed is more consistent as over all load on machine it smooth. Also as we have the old style concave with every second rod removed we had some trouble in lentils of not getting the pods of the seed but had the concave closed right up to 0 on readout (tight to you hear rotor clicking then backed off a couple of strokes on adjustment!!) front of concave closed up to 5 mm (might be closer to 3 mm now!!) but still had pods in sample plus splits, lot's off scratching off heads then remembered one of ROM's old Harvesting books that had wire filler bars! same size as solid filler bars but instead, two 3 mm wires welded each side of the four bolts that hold them in the convave just like standard one's, this closes up the gap in the start of concave but still lets some of the threshed seeds out into the cleaning system. Works much better and might have to make a couple more of them now that we have had some light rain to stop us and the pods will be a bit tough till it warms up again. Rolf G'Day brassring We have installed Dans rotor sweeps idea in our 94 R62 for this years harvest, as we have been a bit worried of it pushing our very dry type of crops out the rotor (10% humidity 20 to 30 degrees C here) but they have been absolutely great in moving crop through our machine. We currently have been cutting lentils off at ground level and have reduced out rotor to 190 rev's (as slow as it goes) and moving along when it's hot 25 + degrees C at 7 to 7.5 km_hr with our 30 ft flex front! green patches are not a problem and we have had less losses out the back of the machine. We have only installed one set of rotor sweeps in our machine, one near the concave side of the sep section then 180 degrees opposite and at the discharge end is the second piece, it works out to be about a 7 inch pitch sweep, we have also shimmed our rotor bars out by 12mm which has helped with rotor losses as well, using ROM's analogy of a fast thin mat of material going thou the rotor and we are sure it has helped with feeding as well! (no dust out the feeder house) ROM came up with the fact that we had a strip of wear on our cage just left of the concave that must have had stalled material that was going round and round in that spot, now with the rotor sweeps that just stick in to the concave area (by about and inch) there is no constipation in the spot or anywhere else for that matter in the processor!! JR over in East of our state is looking at putting a second set of rotor sweeps in his R72!!! wow will that get up and boogy!! Just for anyones info: in lentils at 20 lbs boost average we seem to get around 20 to 22 liters_hour fuel consumption over a 12 hour day of work that with stopping to unload and a few stops to blow out the skid plates of dirt. Rotor gear box is not getting the crap pounded out of it because it's smoothed out with the rotor sweeps, ground speed is more consistent as over all load on machine it smooth. Also as we have the old style concave with every second rod removed we had some trouble in lentils of not getting the pods of the seed but had the concave closed right up to 0 on readout (tight to you hear rotor clicking then backed off a couple of strokes on adjustment!!) front of concave closed up to 5 mm (might be closer to 3 mm now!!) but still had pods in sample plus splits, lot's off scratching off heads then remembered one of ROM's old Harvesting books that had wire filler bars! same size as solid filler bars but instead, two 3 mm wires welded each side of the four bolts that hold them in the convave just like standard one's, this closes up the gap in the start of concave but still lets some of the threshed seeds out into the cleaning system. Works much better and might have to make a couple more of them now that we have had some light rain to stop us and the pods will be a bit tough till it warms up again. Rolf
