What's your fuel consumption like right nowIJ Any performance problemsIJ Pressure issuesIJ Sounds like there might be something wrong with the mechancial part of the CVT rotor drive.
What you are experiencing is normal. With the engine running and the rotor is turned off there is a rotor brake that stops the rotor automatically once a certain rpm is reached. If you are turning the engine off before the brake is activated then the rotor will freewheel as there is no hydraulic pressure to apply the rotor brake.
I am not exactly sure but I think 25 or 50 rpm. Make sure your machine has had the rotor calibration done or the rotor may not stop spinning either. Dealer is to make sure that calibrations are done. It does not hurt to have the calibration done at harvest time as ambient air temp makes a difference. Operators manual says to perform calibration at least once a season.
do you have the newer style cone and vanes in the rotorIJ it should have and does it feed alrightIJ I'm thinking of getting a new 2006. Tired of updates
Tired of updates FarmtonyIJ Better look towards Omaha then. I know you want one! They have a 40-foot flex head with a double knife drive that really works, unlike the other 35, 36, 39, 40, 42 footers out there and those other heads with double knife drive flexheads who "claim" to work. Give it a try, you won't regret it.
Well I give one of them Yellow Class 585s a try and glad I did, that convinced me not to own one yet most obsolete cab on the market and the whole machine is just plain crude, 8010 ate it for lunch, ask the Zeigler boys from central Mn. why they could not put out corn per hr like the 8010, there corn head is years behind everybody elses. Maybe there flex works I have not tryed one but I would like to put it next to a flex draper before I would say they are that great.
The ONlY way another brand can do a better job than a lexion (especially an 8010 vs. a 585) is because whoever set_operated the 585 hadn't a clue as to what they were doing. It is common for a one or two class size smaller lexion to out perform larger competitive machines.
It is always tough in these situations to know the details. How were the combines configuredIJ Who set themIJ What cropIJ Were the machines altered from factory specs (JD and occasionally CaseIH have been guilty of turning up combines to make for an impressive demo, and rotaries love power). When you use the words "only" and "always", it invites one to cite one time in one place in which he saw the opposite to be true. I would agree 95% with what you say, and restate it to say that the lexion will be easily on top 95% of the time. After all, even Tiger Woods has an off day now and then... he can't be superstar every day. Happy harvesting all! As to the free spinning rotor issue, we haven't seen this on the older machines around here yet; nobody around here has an '06 either. Guess we'll see...