Combines Problems with a shelborne stripper head

If you don't get some help here try posting on Machinery Talk as there is a regular on there that runs a stripper header on a 1480 who should be able to help you out.

close your sieves more since you only sep.kernel from chaff and head

Sorry to hear of your troubles with the stripper head. I have been using a 20 Massey head on a short shoe 1680. I set the concaves on 2 and the corn chaffer at about one half inch and the bottom sieve at 3_8 or so. I think you are using too much air. I started at 1100 and reduced to 900 with a bushel or less of field loss. Most of this was from the head since the grain was down to 14%. I was stripping 75 bushel wheat at 6 to 6.5 mph. I am really impressed with the setup and didn't notice any extra Hp for the combine with the stripper. I was limited by the weight of the head or I could have used a larger one. My grain quality was as good or better than a long sieve machine that was using a 30 ft. head beside me. I could thresh more wheat in a day than the big machine. I don't think the opening of the sieves had much to do with anything if you control the separtion with the air. I have the new cross flow fan. I can not see why anything is going into your machine but grain unless you are in down wheat. Did you tip your feeder house bank all the way. This is necessary so your drag chain will catch the grain from the stripper more evenly. I hope this helps and good luck. By the way this was my first year with 15 inch wheat that I planted with my Hiniker air seeder. I will repeat this year.

I am the guy John W is talking about,I run a 24 ft CX 72 on a 1480. We use large wire Harvest brand concaves with 3 Harvest cover plates. We use a Harvest fixed air foil chaffer with the front 8 inches covered with ripple tin to fix some air problems. We run flat out (6.5 mph)in 40 bu spring wheat with the combine running easy and a very clean sample.

Problem solved! Adam from Shelbourne Reynolds came to the field and made some changes to the machine. We moved the pinch point to the bottom of the concaves, put all the wires back in including the extensions,advanced the veins,installed the final sloted grate with the bars on the outside,and put the 1_4 inch screens back in. Set the rotor at 700,air at 1200 and the dam* combine works great now!! Randy