Combines R 70

[John]

The dual speed rotor is more versatile. Much easier to adjust for crops and conditions. The 6 row equipment will test your driving skills if you have any turns(contours)in the fields, get use to driving as fast as the sickle cuts or the corn head pulls it in. Keeping the rotor full will be the problem, you will get loss if the rotor isn't full enough. Return to cylinder is "tailings". With a rotor you will no longer get to see what is going on but I still feel it is necessary to have. The Hydros where pretty much standardized by the R series with few problems. The Deutz engine has to be kept very clean and blown out daily. An annual check of the fin size on the cooling fan is very necessary. Air cooled are better in some ways and worse in others over the liquid cooled engines. The R70 is a large jump from your l2. l2 was an 8 row maximum machine and the R60_70 are near an 8 row minimum machine.

 

[ken]

What width corn head would you be looking forIJ I have a 6 row 38" corn head off my R5 for sale that I think will fit your machine

 

[Tom_Russell]

I agree with everything John says except for daily cleaning the Deutz engine. I clean mine once a year, but and its a huge but, my engine has no fuel or oil leaks. Dust will blow right through the fins if there is nothing for it to stick to. Incidentally, I had a perfect l2 that I figured I would never sell but the family insisted on newer technology like a feed reverser. I would never go back to a conventional after operating the R60. It is nice to rip through corn, for example, at 5.7mph instead of 3-4mph. Tom in MN

 

[spud]

I would need 6 row 30 inch

 

[T__langan]

Don't you have soybean "fuzz" clog up your oil coolers on your DeutzIJ Our R50 engine didn't leak anywhere either, but while cutting beans, we had to blow the coolers out every day to keep them clean. If all we did was small grain and corn, we could've gone all year too. Tom langan

 

[spud]

Thanks for the info. I get pretty jumpy about buying used equipment not knowing anything about the new and improved. What about the rotorIJ Do you check it like the rasp bars on a convetionalIJ About how many hours till it needs reconditioningIJ I went today to take a peek at them (no salemen ha ha). The 91 model is very dirty, looks as if it has never been cleaned other than that looks to be sound. But there again if he cant take time to clean it make you wonder what else needs to be done. Again thanks for your wisdom

 

[Tom_Russell]

This year was a bad one for bean fuzz and I did remove the top engine covers several times to make sure it wasnt building up on the fins. It wasnt. I mounted a windshield snowbrush in the shoe area for brushing the rotary screen and had to use it several times. Beeswings in one corn variety were actually worse than bean fuzz. Now the big question is how to clean the rest of the machine before putting it away for the season. It has never been this dirty before with mold, mud, bean fuzz, etc. Tom in MN

 

[rforro]

I use a backpack leaf blower to blow the big stuff off, then get the power washer out. All day job and not much fun. Randy

 

[T__langan]

I know you're skeptical about using a power washer, Tom. But we've always cleaned our combines with one and never had troubles. We make a point not to aim the spray right at bearings and AlWAYS run the separator for 20-30 min at idle to work water out of things. We didn't have any more problems with bean fuzz than normal this year, but had one variety of corn that had smut real bad. There were places that it was difficult to see the corn head it was so bad. Needless to say, the whole machine is covered with the "smut dust"! Tom langan

 

[t_leslie]

I have noticed a few guys that park the combine inside never wash a combine. One guy called me out to work on his combine in january in his barn and the grain tank was half full of milo.... Said they didn't want to take a half bin into the elevator when they were done with harvest.. IJIJIJ Combine was very well maintained but had never seen a water hose..they said they didn't wash the combine because they did't want to get water in bearings.. I think they are lazy myself..