Combines SCH ON THE UNDERSIDE

FYI- Rock sump or trap hides problem in cylinder. Three helicals purposly drop straw back down on feeder rock door area. Steep pitch helicals helps prevent this, helical filler across feeder opening for the standard pitch helicals helps a bunch, Installing a piece of steep pitch helical to second helical to drop straw on your allready added feeder filler helps a bunch, Rotor sweeps on seperator side helps a bunch (prevents stalling straw on seperator side from backing up into concave trap door area). Sumps can hurt the smooth feeding to cylinder in some conditions and that is why we install fingers over the sump if one must have a sump. Another problem with sumps is the guys just won't clean them out often enough and then they lose all rock portection. I'd much prefer the hump and then set up rotor to prevent constipation from opening the door. Just my $.02. Take care

I wish we had some of those lentils bean to cut. We have gone over 100 acres with the SCH bolted under the bar. The DMI cult. and crumber we run mashes the rocks flush to the ground. Becase of this, we have not had to level the cutter bar. This 8030 head with an air reel is cutting lower then anything I have ever seen. We still run it with a home made rock guard just in case, but it causes some pluging of straw under it, but watching lose beans blow in makes it worth it. Thanks again Keith for this idea. I wish there was a way to know just how many bushles per acre this is gaining us.

Thanks for the insight...I will have to relay this info to my brother so he can take at the machine. I actaully moved to AZ (Glendale) a few years ago after college for a job so this is how I "help out" I usually get back to Nebraska in the spring and then in the fall for a few days. So until then I have to surf the web to get my farming fix. That's how I ran across this site, trying to find some info about the issues we have been dealing with. Again...thanks for the help...I will post back later tomorrow or tuesday after I get a chance to have my bro check some of this out. Matt

Thanks for the insight...I will have to relay this info to my brother so he can take at the machine. I actaully moved to AZ (Glendale) a few years ago after college for a job so this is how I "help out" I usually get back to Nebraska in the spring and then in the fall for a few days. So until then I have to surf the web to get my farming fix. That's how I ran across this site, trying to find some info about the issues we have been dealing with. Again...thanks for the help...I will post back later tomorrow or tuesday after I get a chance to have my bro check some of this out. Matt

I am having trouble making a new post. I have modified my small grain chaffer this summer and it worked well in wheat and I am looking forward to using it in soybeans. I have a corn chaffer, will it pay to modify it like I did the small grain chaffer. Thanks John

I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Seems to be something wrong with the site.

Hi guys... I just got off the phone with my brother...he dropped the front drum of the rear feeder house chain about an inch this morning and it seemed to help out a lot. He looked at a newer R-72 on the lot this morning and saw the shocks and found out (from the mechanic) those will help a lot as well...just as you said. So hopefully we can get a set of those and throw them on if it rains or we get a break. Unfortunately he is down to 30 acres of soys but want to make the changes if we do any custom work. We do have the separator between the top and bottom chain in the feeder house, and the belts are tight and on the "high" side of the pulleys. He did, however stop and look discover where it was bunching. It is between the front and rear feeder house chains. It was slower going (3.2-3.6) in the morning when the stems were wet, but since then he is around 4.2 or so now they have dried off. We will be making the changes_mods for next year since we are about done with the beans and we don't have this trouble in corn. It will depend on the weather. Thanks again... Matt

Dan has commented a few times on the aussie designed "Posi Feed" elevator drums. We installed 2 of them in our R62 last year, both in the front elevator drum position and also in the rear elevator drum position. Both made a big difference in feeding. The rear Posi-Feed drum helps cosiderably with smoothing the material flow at the transition point between the two elevators, markedly improving the smooth feed to the cylinder. The front Pos-Feed drum has a marked and very visual effect on improving the feed from the header into the front elevator, particularly when we harvest varieties where we have had problems with feeding previously. They are well worth a look at. Cheers!

I hope this gets where I need it as I cannot start a new post. The N5 is finally wearing through the grain tank, and we are going to fix it when it rains. Will the new insert from the 5 series combines work, or do we need to make our own like we did on the l2IJ Thanks, Kirk p.s. still looking for a buddy seat for this combine, or pictures of one.

I am also having trouble posting new question. After making several Mods on a 98 R62 I am having trouble with rotor loss and excessive cobb breakup in 24 % moisture corn. The mods I have done are pulling every other wire out of concave,helical vane exstension by concave,F2 bars on adjustable seperator grate and removed every other cylinder bar acrossed the rotor. I have always had good luck with half the bars out and very little cob breakup on past machines. Is it the F2 bars on the bottom causing the cob breakup.Will I have more rotor loss if I remove them. Any body that has a better setup the advise will be Welcome.Thanks