Combines R 65

[Silver_Shoes]

The rock door hump kit will for one thing make your combine worth more for trade in, but thats not the most important part. The rotor doesnt rumble nearly as bad with the hump kit in wet beans. It just eats them up, I just cant imagine not having a rock door, or the hump kit as far as that goes. We run our cylinder 400 or so, but we also took every other row of bars out this year and we find absolutely nothing coming out of the rotor, mostly its a try and see situation. You have to understand, Gleaner builds a universal machine that operates well in all crops and conditions if set properly. Some of the guys out here like to Hot Rod there machines to get maximum capacity from certian crops. Some of the things ppl do to these machines take a lil bit of work, but like I said they do it to maximize capacity in various crops such as corn and beans. Im not saying taking out every other row of bars will work for everyone, it just worked for us and when we go back to wheat we will install the other bars for a more aggresive thrash. I can see how the Hyper Mods would be a great deal for the corn and bean producer, Im not sure how it will work in wheat and milo though. This is the main reason we havent Hypered yet, we raise some wheat and occasionally milo which require alot of thrashing compared to corn or beans.

 

[Harvester]

Welcome, gleaner65. I am sure you will enjoy this site; it's an excellent medium to exchange information with others and you'll find a lot of very competent and dedicated people to the Gleaner combine here always willing to help you. The question I would have is what header do you run on the R65 (8R30IJ) and what kind of capacity do you need_expect it to haveIJ The 'universal' or standard chaffer will work for virtually anything, corn, beans, small grains, etc., but you sacrifice some capacity especially in higher moisture corn by not having the Corn chaffer in place, the 1 5_8". What has worked well for me is to run the 1 5_8" corn chaffer for corn and for beans and switch back to the 1 1_8" (standard) chaffer for grains if needed. The standard chaffer works fine for soybeans, but you won't have full capacity in corn. I would be more inclined to run the 1 5_8" all the time. And I would keep the rock trap, unless you're in a part of Iowa that doesn't have rocks, but I haven't seen it yet, ha. Are you getting lateral tilt put on the R65 as wellIJ Good luck, and welcome again.

 

[gleaner65]

6-30 head is all i use but like to go 5.5 + in 220 bushel corn. 2200 bushel hr on yeild moniter. I had better stay with the square end it sounds like. THanks

 

[T__langan]

The situation you mentioned is why we only removed the bars on the separation end of the rotor. I had heard also that reomoving every other bar worked well in corn and beans, but was concerned about threshing small grains. We left all the bars in over the concave and removed every other bar on the rest of the cylinder. We've been quite pleased with this setup. Tom langan

 

[NDDan]

Can you order with square tooth chaffer less the short round toothIJ Can't you just keep your square tooth you allready have for long shoeIJ Weve never run anything other than standard chaffer in corn since the long shoes. Of course we don't have corn like you guys do. You must of had '96 or newer machine but you didn't say if it has extended cylinder bars or not. The extended bars the 65 has will likely give you less shoe load if your 62 didn't have them. We allways shoot for very slow cylinder speeds but if it is causing constipation you need to speed up or find something else to prevent that problem. I wouldn't think twice about rock door setup if I were you when you have no rocks. Don't look like it will cost you much to order original door and then add the hump. Feed to cylinder is of utmost importance in my opinion. When rock sumps come out we got a whole new set of problems. We ended up removing them until we started building an attachment that we could fasten some rods to. The rods needed to span the sump for supporting the crop. The worst thing about sump that is standard now is I bet we can't fasten out attachment to and I bet buying a field installed door kit will cost us dearly. If you should want a sump later on with the same old rock door hump combo you can just install the brackets. We've been ordering our machines with the hydralic spreader and dual tailings returns of course. Best of luck

 

[gleaner65]

thanks called the dealer and am having him put the rockdoor and hump on instead of sump. I dont want feeding problems. My r62 is a 97 dont know if the bars go all the way or not cant remember. Thanks

 

[big_orange]

I've got a 2001 R-62,the long tooth square back chaffer does fine in beans,and I tried the short tooth round end in corn,it doesn't have enough capacity in high yieldig corn,and I would think hi moisture would even be worse.Also in east central Iowa.

 

[gleaner65]

thanks, I am going to stay square end on everything. Have you done the modification of your square end to open front more or notIJ i am in se Ia Thanks!!

 

[big_orange]

Haven't opened up the front on the 62 yet,but should.I did it to the M-3 I had and it made quite a difference.How far SE,I'm close to Cedar Rapids.

 

[gleaner65]

10 miles north of burlington just traded though all the way up in new hampton with agland equipment. seem like nice people