Combines Here we go again

Dan

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Hi Rob, I think most of your questions were addressed up above. As to weather cylinder loss is unthreshed crop or not. If you have a chopper you may have to drop the tailings door from time to time and get used to what you will have with EZ thresh as compaired to hard thresh. I think once you got onto it you could compair loss and tank sample at any particular setting and come up with a conclusing if loss was coming from unthreshed crop. Once you have given you header some time to shine up and still have problems you should let us know. The combine can not do any better of a job threshing or seperating than the way it is feed. The header opening can be set to the widest opening but you could have driveshaft wrapage if the straw is tough and likes to wrap. You should have at least three of the far right fingers removed if you have the straw retarders slide to narrow the opening. Make sure you have a flat smooth area where the feeder and header meet. Make sure the flighting extention and straw retarder meet up well with the existing parts to prevent snagging straw. Grind or fill in the areas where straw can catch. It don't take much to screw up the flow. let us know of any particular problem area if you can't get it.
 

Nobul

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Thanks for the response Dan.THink I've got everything (except for new cylinder bars) set up correctly. looks like 1-1.5% rotor loss in 100 bushel crop. Want to do some planing and tiling in this field so was really ramming lots of straw through. AND the wheat wasn't quite as dry as I thought. Oooooh well. Good clean sample considering. Now if the sun ever returns perhaps we can get back at it. Thanks, Rob.
 
 
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