Combines Rochelle Rotor

The Rochelle rotor was developed by a dealer in [of all places] Rochelle Il. [Walker-Schork Int.] The principle owner of the dealership and developer of the rotor is lee Prunty. The phone n is 815-562-2135. It is a variation of the specialty rotor. We have a 2388 from that dealer but do not run that rotor. Don't remember exactly why, it was 2 yr. ago. We do run the specialty rotor.

I first heard of the Rochelle rotor at a meeting for popcorn growers. Somewhere, I have the specs on exactly how to make the modification. If I remember right, it was fairly simple, they removed a few rotor bars, and put a few more in different places. A Case-IH service rep was doing the presentation and highly recomended it for popcorn.

Contact the developer, lee Prunty, owner of Walker-Schork International, Rochelle, Il. wsint@wsint.com 815-562-2135

My buddy put the Rochelle Rotor on his 1688 and really likes the performance in heavy corn. He harvests 175+ bushel corn with 1083 at over 5.5 mph and unloads on the go with no "blowover". He was unable to do that with the specialty rotor before he put the third flat bar in place. I also helped him cut wheat last year on this very date and it did not hinder wheat cutting like everyone had said would happen. In corn with speciality rotor go either Rochelle or Gorden Bars.

Stay away from the rochelle rotor. I had the opportunity to run it in some wet and downed crop a few years back and it consumed a significant amount more power. Also much audible stress in the rotor. The new rotor to be released has a reduced number of threshing elements and auger flights instead of impellors to provide much smoother feeding into the rotor.

Gorden Bars will fit Rochelle Rotors. Sixteen threshing and fourteen separating bars fit the 80-88 series Rochelle Rotors. Gorden Bars will enhance the ability of the Rochelle Rotor to move tough beans and thresh well in all crops.

The Rochelle rotor is apated from the Specialty Rotor in a way that allows 4 Straight Separator bars to be mounted on the rotor in the concave area(previous Specialty Rotors only had provisions to mount them in the grate area only. It is supposed to work better in high-yield corn by slowing the material down as it goes through the rotor_cage area, allowing more more_better separation.