Combines Need a small seeds kit for an N7

r7

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I have an R7 and combine both of those crops every year. I have a "backer board" on the back of the chaffer that really helps. It is about 5-6" high and slidesover the back of the shoe down to the chaffer. I also run an airfoil chaffer really helps keep the pods out.With the board in place you can run quite a bit of wind Setting 5 give or take a turn or two.Also, how are the acc. rollsIJ They make a huge difference on those small seeds. If you want I can send pictures and diagrams so you can make one or tell you where to get one. The small seed kit basically chokes down the wind from the separater fan and I think that with the yields on canola 1800n+ and flax 25bpa+ that there is to much material to reduce air.
 

Chris_Bryden

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A picture of that board would be great, I sure have to fix this thing this year lots of canola to do. I was just about nuts last year trying to set it. What bugged me the most is I could not get a clean sample at all, the versatiles right next to it (which also have distrubution problems) were getting it too clean and where throwing very little out, so I knew it could be seperated easy (no chaff weight problem). I could neither turn the air down until little loss, because once the chaff was on the sives it started "sluffing" it over, or turn it up and get a clean sample because of high loss, like seeds touching loss and yet chaff in the tank never did get a clean sample no matter how much wind. I know last year I was convinced there was too much air coming out the seperator duct and not enough through the cleaning duct. I don't remember what was happening with the return, I know when I tryed closing off sieve to get a cleaner sample loss went up so the must have been a lot of return. I know in canola you get more capacity with more open sieves and more wind but wind was the problem more wind more loss, turned it down loss seemed to lower then loss increased (chaff riding on chaffer). Then I put the air up to where I figured I has as little loss (still to much) and tryed to set the bottom sieve to clean it up but no setting would get it clean. I'll take a lot of chaff in the tank if I am losing little, but when its kicking grain over too that bites. last year was the first for a N7 I really like the combine runs nice mechanically sound. Did you try closing down the seperator duct to get more air through the sievesIJ Also how do you tell your accelerator rolls are wore or wore out and will you see that kind of improvmentIJ It also has an aifoil sieve. Thanks for any info! Man lots of wind in this message!
 

R7

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Your problem sounds a lot like acc. rolls that are worn out. If the wear is in the middle of the rolls it will puke out canola no matter what fan is set on.Are you able to evenly feed canola with the swathIJ Every time you stop to pick apart a "beaver hut" with the pickup header the canola flies out the back because it's not full, but on a nice swath it should feed and separate easily.Yields less than 1200n per acre are hard for a big machine to do a clean job unless you have a 30ft. swath.I also replaced my finishing sieve because of the uneven fins and that really helped. I will take some pictures of the backer board along with some measurmentsand send them to you if you send me your email n. It will help. John
 

Dan

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Accelerator rolls number one. Shouldn't be able to stick a pencil up between them and swipe back and forth for them light seeds. The board is very easy and helps. latest I heard was a guy in Canada makeing a super chaffer where he claims basically no loss. He opened up the first few louvers and locked them there for all his crops. That was on the short shoe and I'm unsure if you could leave them that far open on the newer long shoes. Good luck.
 

Gleaner_Guy

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Sounds like maybe these are not the answer for you, but if you really want some of the small seed kits, I have two that I would sell. We tried them in Bluegrass seed, but they plugged up with leaves etc. which would not be a problem in canola. Anyway, I've got these if you are interested, would be less than 1_2 of new.