Combines Proto type rotor

Whats the rotor like,if you can sayIJ

6bar, smaller diameter, discharge vanes on the end plus a few other things.IJ. rave reviews..put this in combo with steep pitch helicals on the threser side and helical extention ....

From what I saw Your rght. There are places for accessories to bolt between rasp bars to aid in tough conditons. THe rotor in our machine was used in Husker harvest days. It's a solid drum style, and its heavy. Keep you posted how it does in corn.

What do you mean by discharge vanesIJ Also, is the idea of the smaller diameter and six bars to accomplish what we are doing by removing bars or using half-height barsIJ Sheesh! If ya take every other bar off of a six bar rotor, that doesn't leave much to move material! Thanks- Tom langan

We remove every other rotor bar in our machine and rotor loss goes to nill in high yielding wet corn. Much less rotor growl and wrapping in the cylinder in soybeans also. Alot of guys are doing it around this area along with the hump kits and 3rd helical. If you are in milo, Im not sure if this setup would be aggressive enough without some reverse bars. I am excited to hear that agco is working with a new rotor and would very much like to see it. I have never been around an enclosed rotor and not sure if its neccesary but I guess that what RandR is all about. We can play with things out here, but when Gleaner builds something it has to work in every crop and and not be something that is crop specific.

Could you expand a bit. What sort of edibles, how wide are bean rows, how many rows, and how fastIJ Any attachments bolted onto cylinderIJ Where are you locatedIJ Thanks

Sorry it took soo long to reply, (sugar beet harvest). We raise pinto and Great Northern beans. We windrow 12r30" together and use a Sund pickup to harvest with, going from 2 (really tough heavy beans) to 5.5 in moderate windrows. We don't raise any soybeans in our area which is in Western Nebraska. As far as attachments, this rotor had "shark fins" inbetween the cylinder bars in certain places, which where movable to many postions. Very impressed with it in the tough conditions, no rotor rumble at all. Corn is a week or so away, will keep you posted on its' performance.

What type rotor was itIJ Was it the Bison or something similarIJ

The rotor came from Agco. I'm not familar with many other aftermarket rotor designs, this one is a solid drum, heavy, and has fewer rasp bars on it.

Is there any chance you could provide a photo of your rotorIJ We've been building a rotor with 6 rows of bars for a couple of years, and about a year ago I emailed AGCO photos of what we had done. I suspect this is a pretty close duplicate. Incidentally -- operates very well in wheat -- slower rotor speeds required, no rotor loss, separates sooner, less shoe load, very little drop in engine RPM under load. Would apprreciate an email. Thanks, Terry Welch