Combines Hard thresh wheat

[Dan]

Your right in that you need to run rotor slow enough to eliminate cracking. To slow with rotor will at some point start taking more power and sluging may be noted. You have to get complete thresh before letting material threw concave when you don't have tailings return package. You'll need more filler bars and or closer concave clearance with to do better job. Get header to work better so you can pack more material into concave. Crop rubbing out crop should cause the least damage. I understand your thinking on reverse bars but don't think you'll notice a hole lot of difference with or without them. like others have said you should extend your second helical from gearbox over feeder corner, extend cylinder bars and a few other things but you get her feed nice to start with and go on from there. It might be time to do some rebuilding in cylinder area anyway and that would be a good time to do some hyperizing. As far as air filter warning I would change both filters no matter how they look and then replace sending unit if still bothering. As far as your short straw problem you should check area of rear feed door and area in front of concave to see nothing is leaking there and coming in threw seperator fan.

 

[Dan]

We have very hard to thresh wheat also and get by fine with all 3_4" rasps. Rolf seems to like 1_2" over concave and Gleaner offers that combo so it must be popular somewhere. You've got a new enough machine to have shocks and you installed the extended bars so you have two most important hyper tricks. If you get tough conditions or would like to start earlier or go later you may want to get rid of some reverse bars. If not by all means leave the way you have it. You have little to no loss now so removing reverse bars may or may not change that. You do have new enough machine to have adjustable seperator grate so you could suck that up a bit if your getting loss. If you ever pop rock door open in tough going you may want to install the third helical extention over feeder. The extention reduces the extreme load on left side of feeder area from that double pass of crop. One thing about the so called Hypering, it is mainly for the tough green conditions but will benifit in many other crops and conditions also. Its great to hear your machine works wonderfully and great that extended bars have been standard for a couple years now and the third helical extention for the large rotors will soon be standard also. Keep on Gleanering

 

[Ed_Boysun]

Dan, thanks for all the great advice you give here. Yes, the extended helical is on the list of must do things before we get to this year's harvest. Then the next thing that would increase the capacity would be a new 36' Honeybee. That one costs money though, so it may have to wait. Ed in Montana

 

[camshaft]

Ed, Here's a 51' Honeybee. The way my crop is shaping up I could likely use this one on my R60 this harvest.

 

[Ed_Boysun]

Surely that's a mis-print. I thought that HB made 41 footers but never heard of a 51. Are you in SaskatchewanIJ I thought you folks were getting rain. Sorry to hear about short crops ---- AGAIN!