Combines R60 straw speading problems

After the first day of running the chopper concave engaged I believe the spreader pattern is not as good as when the concave was retracted. I thought breaking up the straw would give a wider spread pattern but the opposite appears to be happening. Maybe I will learn more today if the weather holds. Tom in MN

My R60 is doing the same. If anyone can find a solution please post. I have dual spreaders also.

Tom I had talked this very idea over with Dad as we were wrenching in the field. I planned to try this approach, but we are in the middle of the rainy season here. Hopefully we will be back at it next week. Thanks for any help you can offer. Todd

We used to have the same problem with windrowing straw but made a few adjustments and it does a much better job now. On the right hand spreader I think we have two paddels fulling retarded and two advanced some. Also removed two of the rubber paddels. Can't recall settings on left hand spreader. I'm writing this from memory so it may not be accurate and I'll check tomorrow. However, suffuce it to say it it can be made to not windrow! Running the spreaders as fast as one can usually leads to less wading of residue as well. Of course head size basically is the determing factor in speed settings. Also we run chopper concave in halfway in or so. Seems to still chop fine.

On right spreader we have two fully retarded and two fully advanced. The retarded ones have rubber paddles removed. Probably should remove rubber on the other ones in green straw because at times it throws residue into uncut beans. Note, this machine is with a 20 ft head. I like the idea Ramrod has of cutting several inches off two of the channel irons on the right hand spreader. I bet that would help to not spread to the right so far. In our case if we did this I would cut off the two retarded ones to keep stuff to the left.

Brian - I have a one spinner spreader, and the two arms I cut off are the ones that spread to the left as you stand behind the machine. For 30 foot swath, I need all the distance I can get out of the other two to get fully to the right side spread. Hope this clarifies.

I have an R-62 with a 20 ft. table, it has a single spinner, no straw chopper. I also had a problem, throwing threshed straw or bean stalks on unthreshed crop. My solution was to advance the paddles and drilled new holes until it worked the way I could live with. I did this 3 yrs. ago and haven't touched it since. Just food for thought, and how I solved my problem. Good luck this fall, and be careful out there! Dale Walker SCMI.

Be sure speaders are turning the proper way. As viewed from top large spreader CCW small spreader CW. Straw should fall into channel that holds rubber paddles and then slide outward past the paddle. Have found lots of channels on the small two paddle to be fliped so channel is not leeding. I remember a guy one time saying that he installed a panel inside shute to direct straw further ahead on spreader and it worked great for controling left or right spread.