Combines Self leveling pan resultsIJ

I can tell you about my 2 hours with a CR970 and 12 row corn head last fall. May not be much help to youIJ It seemed to work good, corn was going 180+ bpa and none was on the ground at 6.5 mph. It was on a rolling SIl field. It will even level out when you make the turn on the end of the rows. Don't really see how it could load to one sideIJ Maybe on the CIH single rotor it couldIJ New Holland has adjustable boards under the rotors to spread out the grain over the grain pan. If set right it should load the grain pan and then the sieves even across the width of the combine. The self-leveling system will keep it level on slopes to 17%. like I said I only have 2 hrs of combine time with a CR so I may not know what I'm talking about, but I think it should work very good so you can operate at full capacity on changing conditions and fields. Go try one this fall at a dealer near youIJ Ilnh

PAMI tested them years ago on the TX36 and said they worked real well and improved the combines performance by up to 50% on sideslopes of 17% which was the max it would correct. Here is a quote from the TX36 summary but you'll have to get the whole report to get the results of tests on the self-levelling shoe: "Cleaning shoe performance was very good. Shoe loss was low in all crops. The self levelling mechanism worked well and kept the shoe operating efficiently on side slopes up to 9.5 (17%). "

the new CR series does not have distribution plates like the TR's did, like he said, maybe the one with one rotor has that problem, that I can see. Sure beats Cat's system by trying to shake the seive side to side, what a joke, just yesterday in Barley my grain loss on our 480 lexion would go up on slopes, I'd much rather the seives not know the difference of ground terrain cause their always level.

2rr, The CR I seen inside had the distribution plates in there, different than the TR's in that there is now more room so they are not on the bottom of the concave any more. They are on there own frame now. They stay in even if you take the concave out now. They did do away with the dividers on the grain pan. I guess there is no need for them nowIJ The self-leveling cleaning system should be a proven system as it has been on the TX combines for many years. Ilnh

huh, I'm not doubting what you say, I'm sure the one you saw did, but we demo'd one last week and we looked in the concave access door and I asked where they were. Harvest Support guys told me they don't need them. Its big enough grain pan everything levels out by the time it reaches the seives. By the way, it was a 960, and it was awesome. Made our 480 lexion feel like a dinosaur(technology wise).

Ilnh, do you remember when we where looking at the CR with the NH guy..GaryIJ I remember him saying the boards where gone as there was no need anymore. I recall looking in there and can't say that I saw anyIJ Figured they would have some form of Star Trek's tazer, fazer inside there to make sure the grain spread evenlyIJ I can here it now.....Scotty, you've got to give me more power!!! I'm loosing too much corn out the back and the fazers are under powered!! I, I sir, but your pushing 'er awful hard captian! I'm afraid to hold her @ 97% power captain! No one has been here before!!!! JD

JD and 2rr, Maybe I can't remember too good anymoreIJ I was thinking I saw the plates in there yetIJ Now I'm not to sure what I saw. So I guess that proves that I really don't know what I'm talking about, something my wife has been telling me all along. JD only 97%, I think the CR can do a least 110%IJ;-))

when we demo'd the 960 he told me I'd go to 120%

I have a cr 940 on the wheat run and it does very well on the slopes in 50 to 60 bu wheat, and you run the power% at about 90 to 95 but you can take it to 125% but much more than that and you will plug it!! Never did yet.

Haven't seen the distribution plates make an appearance on the CRs yet. There is a hump that can be attached to the grain pan to encourage grain to spread out, as the Twin Rotor will often tend to load heavy in the center. Had to do this on one I ran in high moisture corn last fall. As far as the leveling shoe design, it still is not foolproof. Nice on paper... but not infallible. Grain still has to be placed evenly on the shoe. Once there, if it's not distributed evenly, the leveling shoe can't fix it. On my ground, it didn't seem as impressive as NH billed it to be. The Claas system really isn't any more complex than the CR_CX system, and it is effective. Then again, the most simple and beautiful hillside cleaning system is the Gleaner's. No extra machinery, complexity, or cost.