NDDan
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Hyper, Do you have one with sweeps nearby that you can check for this problemIJ This has been an overloading area in most all crops since the large P3s first came out. This has been cleared up with a few upgrades. Number one is the helical accross feeder and I prefer a filler that does not restrict flow from feeder. Number two is corn concaves. That is the high wide wire or ever other wire pulled from low narrow wire with the holes from missing wires plugged. I would prefer to have wires raised a quarter inch or so on the low narrow wire. Same goes for seperator grate. Third is steep pitch helicals on thresher side. I start first steep pitch at gearbox wall and it ends lined right up with helical accross feeder. Then I start next steep pitch one hole wider than where the second original helical started. Wrap that second helical around cage paralel to the first one. Continue with spreading third and four steep pitch an extra hole as you go. The fifth steep pitch only needs to be shortest steep pitch. Remove enough of the existing helicals so none of them pinch material against the new steep pitch. Fourth thing is sweeps on standard eight bar rotor. The sweep that is next to concave will help keep this transition area clean. We have found with Bison that we need a tee in this transition area to act just like the sweep does. I would like to get a Bison that is made correctly down to you and if you put in that R60-70 style P3 you have you would need to remove the excess helicals in transition area. Better yet would be to install steep pitch on thresher side. That would be more of a job on that earliest large P3 system but I have done it. I know it is hard to get any of this done during the heat of harvest but I hope there is some good food for thought hear if someone would like to bring their machine up another level. Have a great harvest.