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elephant ears, and wear plates worn out

I agree with farmer tony. At this point you should look at the Stewart Steel Axceller auger type front to improve your capacity. It is a bolt on setup with no drilling required and will give results similar to the AFX rotor. My local dealer Argis 2000 had three of them in stock and was offering them for $1800 Canadian (or $1550 USD). I suspect this cost is not much more than the replacement parts you will need.They are ruggedly constructed and look real professional. I know when my elephant ears and wear plates are worn I will replace mine with the Stewart steel setup.

This sounds like a similar problem that I have had in my 1660 every time I harvest flax or linola. There is not a continuous even flow up the feeder and the rotor is constantly banging and hammering these lumps of wiry flax straw which occasionally results in broken concaves and hangers. I've cured the stone trap beater wrap problem by installing a set of serrated bars and thats a big help but it still needs something to even out the flow of crop material. I've replaced the elephant ear extensions with no noticeable improvement. New rub bars made no difference. I wasn't aware that the auger type acellerator was a bolt on for the 60 series and I'd sure be willing to pay that price if I knew it would solve the flax feeding problem. Its really aggravating listening to the rotor hammering that flax straw all day long and knowing what it can do to a concave.

Thanks for the advice from all! I had a tech. look at it but he claims that my rock trap beater to be moving too fast! I replaced the elephant ears, and wear plates last fall so I don't think that they would be worn out yet.

I agree your rocktrap is running to fast. Ours was set up at tha speed when we bought it and we had the same problem, we slowed it down a bit and that solved the problem. I cant recall the sprocket size but I'll look at it tonight and let u know. Brad

The slow speed sprocket is the 30 tooth and the high speed sprocket is the 20 tooth. Sounds like Ripped is running a 2200 series cornhead in dry harvesting conditions and is pushing the ground speed I'll bet.

You are correct about the 2200 series head and the ground speed depends on the condition. Generally in 18-20% corn at 180 bushels our travel speed is 4.2-4.6 mph. This head is another issue!! I don't like the way it puts down the stalks at the posted speeds. I prefer to see a nice clean shaved field when finished. The head works great when the stalks are eight feet high and are planted at 32000 seeds per acre but when you get into a low spot it looks like a deere head stripped the cobs.

The smaller stalked don't get shredded as well since CNH changed the knife height early on the 2200 series the first heads with the taller knives were said to break the stalk off and then the whole plant would be feed through the combine and effect capacity.