Combines Hyper milo

No one can say for certain in any given situation. We have a couple of units successfully harvesting a limited amount of Milo using no reverse bars, leaving them out and not replacing them w_ forward bars, installing disruptors, and using retarder bars in the separator grate. You will only find out by trying. You might pull two this year, and if successful try the last two next season.IJ.

Well, a month ago I was in the exact same position you were in with uncertainty of how a hypermized R62 would perform in maize. I search extensively on all the forums and only found limited reviews of performance in maize. After much deliberation I decided to take the risk and make all the hypermized modifications, which includes the extended helical bar in the throat, exteneded helicals in the discharge section, and taking everyother descharge paddle out. I took All the reverser bars out and replaced them with disrupters in conjuction with a regular forward bar mounted in the seperator grate. Results: After 12 days of harvesting maize I have come to find out that all the work was well worth my effort. With a 25ft header harvesting 5000lb maize I ran 6.8 mph (all it has in 2nd gear). Although one must know that all pervious settings are thown out. I came to found out that I had to run my cylinder speed at 650, concave at 4 (bout the same),and tighten the seperator grate to 3 wich was perviosly on 7. Once I made those fine tune adjustments it was leaving as much as the un-hypermized R62 right next to me, not much. I just switched to corn so I am in the process of setting and performace rating. In conclusion, my work in the shop was made up in the field. Aaron

Thanks for the replies. Guess I just wanted to hear from at least one person that I wasn't alone in left field on this one. I do have some questions that you and_or tbran might answer that I haven't been able to resolve by going through past posts. My reverse bars are staggered at 90 degrees from each other, the Hyper-mods pictures shows the disruptors in the same row, go with the suggested set-up in the pictures if I replace them allIJ ANM, are you running 2 rows of disruptors or 4IJ Will bolting the disruptors securely in place keep them from turning sideways or does something else need to be doneIJ When mounting the rasp bar in the grate, I thought about using a heavy steel strap to run the bolts through on the back side of the wires to create a clamp. Is this the most common method or is there something I haven't thought ofIJ loctite on the grade 8 boltsIJ I'm sure having a disruptor or rasp come loose is a nightmare no one should experience. Thanks for the encouragement and help. This is the last mod for this combine. I'm wishing I'd done them all at once as well as previous ones have worked out.

I am in the prosses of hypering my R62 what have you done so far that has workedIJ Thanks for any info!

Started with feeder house shocks and hose mod on header. The next fall I did the extended cylinder bars from lowen, extended helicals into discharge, and removed every other wire from separator grate. Before this wheat harvest I did the hump in the rock door and extended third helical. Doing it in stages you can see the difference each change makes but I would recommend doing it all at once because it all helps, some changes more dramatically than others.

Hello ANM, I was just curious what you call a disrupterIJ You mention replacing all of your reverse bars with disrupters. I thought that reverse bars were a way to disrupt the flowIJ I also thought the F2 rasp bar_bars in the bottom of the cage was another disrupterIJ Hopefully you can straighten me out. Thanks Ryan.

Sorry for taking so long to reply, all my time is being spent in the combine these days. The disrupters are the gussets that become available when you take off every other discharge paddle and replace it with a forward bar. I placed the disrupter where the reverser bars were which now work in conjuction with the bar mounted on the seperator grate. I mounted the disrupters with the same bolts that it used on the discharge section. I then tack welded them on to prevent the from turning. Then I mounted a forward on the seperator grate. I took the grate completely out (that was hell) so that I could make the modifications to it. I took every other wire out. Where I mounted the forward bar I welded some 1_2 inch flat to the grate to mount the bar on. I countersunk the bottom of the bar to where the top of the wires use to ran. looking back I may have countersunk it in too much because I have to now run my seperator grate tighter than I use to. So far I have run 1500 acres of milo and corn through it and have not had any problems.