Combines enclosed rotors and various crops

[Dan]

No, the cylinder is just as open as stock. I think this screw type helical type thing will work equally as good on enclosed as it will on open cylinder. I don't have anything against enclosed. I called St. Johns but he was tied up so we couldn't talk and didn't call Sunnybrook to see if they had tried anything like this on Gleaner. I though the only way I could fasten something like this was to have enclosed rotor but found a way without. I'll get a picture as soon as I get rotor back for it is 100 miles away right now. I can't believe it but I can't find that I have taken a picture. Gleaner service rep has pictures and has wired to Gleaner for good conversation piece. I like to try make these little attachments to fit existing machine without adding a bunch of work to switch, weight, or expense. I also try to keep in mind that Gleaner wants these machines to work well in all crops and conditions without a hole lot of changing. I'm sorry about carring on hear but I think that agitator, pusher, helical thing has a lot of promiss for the toughest wetest conditions that seam to be getting more common.

 

[tj]

Dan: Apologies for being tied up. larger apologies if you left your number and I failed to call back. I don't know exactly how many of these agitator_sweep bars you could put on, but I think that the front side of the helicals provides resistance to the angle at which the sweeps are mounted and prevent rotor loss. Did you shorten some bars as we did on the rotor on our websiteIJ The operators of this machine told me that they were running 200 bu. corn at 150 rotor RPM and green stem beans at 200 RPM -- cutting in the same fields alongside a 9700 STS and would have surpassed the STS's speed in corn if they would have had adjustable deck plates. We only installed 2 of these sweeps on that rotor, but left provision to install 2 sweeps more between them which would have given us a continuous spiral. We were afraid that might be too much, so didn't do it right away, and it appears that we still may not need it.