Combines Hydraulic Spreader

I have a hydralic drive on my R7. Had another header for sunflowers and robbed the pump off it and the reel orbital motor.I run the pump off of the accellerater roll shaft on left hand side under unloading auger. Wired a control switch to cab so that I can adjust spreader width from cab. It works great you can just look in the mirror and see where you want straw, works great on windy crosswind days.Just dontrun it too slow or impeller will plug and that sucks. Have installed a n rpm guage to see how fast everything turns.If you have any IJ get a hold of me.JOHN

I still don't know why they didn't use the hydraulic dual spreader conversion for the N series when they switched the R's to dual spreader. Just would have made alot more sense.

Sounds like you have this worked out, I like the idea of changing the spread pattern from the cab and also having rpms motintored. My machine is a 91' R-70, which has the drag chain running in the straw chute. The drag chain is run by that gosh darned long a$$ belt. Therefore by going totally hydraulic, I'm not sure how to slope chute so material will flow on out. Although it looks as if the R-7 is 271.8" w_o header, which is the same length as the R-70. I was wondering if R-7 has sloped chute like N series or is it similar to R-70IJ

I chute would be basically identical from R6, R7, R60 without drag chain, and R70 w_o drag chain. I would believe you would be in luck if you want to slope the floor for your hydralic pump is located on right side of engine instead of just under the straw chute floor. I've been studing how to slope floor on the older Rs with piston pump hydralics but havn't done anything yet. I think I will have to slope floor upward from chopper a bit and then slope downward as much as possible. There are many Ns and Rs out west of me that have spreader driven from a transformed header hydralic pump setup.