Combines Redekop Choppers and Spreader

[Farm_Kid2]

Sorry I can't comment on the chopper, but I would seriously look at Estes Disruptor before I spent the money on a chopper. It's a much more "elegant" solution. We have the 9 lugs all mounted in the rear grate (keystock style) and are not running any rice spike bars. That gives wheat straw that looks like it's gone through a JD 9610 chopper. You can add the spiked bars if you want it chopped even better.

 

[knightag]

been there, done that

 

[Farm_Kid2]

What didn't you like about the disruptorsIJ

 

[John_W]

You can go to this site and read a summary of an evaluation that PAMI did on the Redekop Chopper some years ago. The main complaint is the horsepower it takes to run it. They said it took 35 horsepower to turn it in wheat behind a Deere 7720. http:__www.agric.gov.ab.ca_esb_afmrc_sum4c8.html

 

[knightag]

In heavy wheat straw over 20% H20 are heavy soybeans I'am not able to get stems broken up enough or spread even 20 feet. By the way I do run a Vittetoe chaff spreader. Also this is in southern Indiana where we plant doubble crop beans behind or soft red winter wheat that yields this year 75-80 average with parts of the fields going up to 120-130 bu_a thats a lot of straw.

 

[Bulldogger]

We will be starting our third season of use with a Redecop chopper on our 2388 combine. The factory spreading system on CIH rotary is useless if you are trying to spread consistantly and evenly more than fifteen feet. Up here in Manitoba Canada we grow grasses for seed and needed a combine that would chop and spread material 25 to 30 feet on both calm and windy days. Grass residue can be tough to chop and heavy to spread but the Redecop chopper does a good job of both. In the grasses it is hard going and we have had to change the long drive belt a few times but in something easier like wheat straw even very heavy stands the Redecop plays with it and does a beautiful job. It is fustrating to have to spend that kind of money on a new combine to make it perform a function that should have been considered essential by the manufacturer. The support provided by the people at Redecop to us has also been second to none. No complaints there. We do however take issue with the fact that CIH is selling 2001 combines with 1977 choppers in them and have completely ignored farmers requests to improve them over the years. For that reason we will be testing a JD 9750 STS combine on our farm this summer which incidently has a Redecop rotor in it's factory installed chopper.

 

[Farm_Kid2]

I'm not sure any chopper will handle damp wheat straw. It's just about like rope. If you have the factory chopper, maybe adding those sickel sections would helpIJ As for spreading the material, you can improve that a lot by going to the high speed spreader pulley and cutting the side curtains back. We have the older spinners with the rubber bats. We flipped them over and added a second one on top to let it get a better bite on the material. So far we've been pleased.

 

[larry]

Up here guys who direct seed and notill swear by them. They spread the chaft and straw 30ft. No matter what brand of chopper and combine they are all going to take power to get nice fine chopped up straw. Of course the damper the straw the more power needed. In nice dry stuff you get pretty much just dust out the back. JD uses them on thier combines for the fine cut choppers. You can get replacement rotors for the OEM CASEIH chopper thats much more aggresive like the Redekop rotor. But still you may have to speed up the spreaders etc. to get a wide spread.

 

[deere_slayer]

They work great I have a used one we are trying to sell. let me know if you are interested.