Combines Singing the praises of Hyper

[Irv]

Hey RamRod....

 

[jackshaft]

hi irv i also run an R5 we have done a few mods to ours,could you tell me what you have all done to yours,and what's this cage you speak ofIJ

 

[RamRod]

Thanks, Irv for the lead. Hope harvest is going well. later,

 

[farmboy]

we just hyperized a 81 n-6 this year. did everything except the seperator grate on left side. works great, we have not had this clean of sample in several years. cut our rotor loss almost to nothing. THANKS!!!!

 

[Irv]

Jackshaft, we have had our R5 for quite a while now, '92 being the first year we had it. It had sat unsold for a few years, and had very low hrs. A few years ago, we were going to replace the cage, as it was getting a little thin in places. I don't remember exactly how we found them, but St. Johns Welding in St. Johns KS will replace the mesh of the cage with new material. They use a little different style of mesh, and it seems to work very well. Bunches cheaper than new. We also built the hi-low cylinder per hyper's reccomendations. We put in a cage for a '6 or '7, and added the overfeed auger. The first soy harvest with the stock machine was like having a little square baler, but it really needed a knotter. Adding the chopper helped, as did getting rid of the conveyor in the discharge chute. We "lost" the sweep when we replaced the cage...don't miss that. We went to a 525 this fall, and borrowed some parts from a newer combine to run the reel with combine hydraulics. That seems to work just fine. We run a 8-20 John Deere corn head (painted black, with gray poly snouts),but we are thinking about going to 12. The machine just eats corn! We added the knife rolls a few years ago, and really like those much better.

 

[John]

I also have an 86 R5 that I purchased in 1993 with low hours. It had sat on a dealer lot for a couple of years. The only real problem was with gren stemmes soys that sounded like lumber going through the cage. Then I found this site and started reading some of the postings and found that I was not alone in the problems I had. The first thing I did was to eliminate the reverser bars and by just doing that last year I felt like I had a new machine. I couldn't believe such a small change could have such an effect. Very smooth threshing. last winter I replaced my worn cage and concave with a cage and concave for an R6 from loween. I even went with the P3 style removable panels in the cage. Got rid of the cage sweep. Put in the edible bean kit with the channel helicals. Set up the high-low rotor from Hyper's rec. Added two more paddles to the discharge of the rotor. Did the hose mod on my 820 flex head. I also run a New Idea 6-30 cornhead that is left over from seed corn picking days. Went to the field this year and couldn't believe the capacity the machine has now. It threshes so smoothly and quietly and according to my dealer he has R62's that cannot do any beter that I am. The machine is now an absolute pleasure to operate now. I may have stuck a lot of $$$ into it in the rebuild but I now have a machine that will serve me very efficiently for quite some time now. My hat is off the everyone on this site who had contributed to the fine tuning of these fine machines! John in Nebraska P.S. I also happen to have a set of brand new flat helicals for sale. They came preinstalled in the loween cage and I have no need for them. Would be good for someone double stacking. I think they are even chrome.

 

[jackshaft]

thanks irv and john i am greatful for the input.i have considered the removal of my cage sweep but i am a little concerned of filling the back of my machine with wheat straw(so much that it would affect the dist augers and accel rollers,are you guys comfortable with it goneIJ irv you said you ran 20" corn head, i grow edible beans and sunflowers on 22"rows have you heard of a corn head on this spacing. P.S i farm in southern manitoba a stones through from north dakota and minnesota.

 

[Irv]

In this part of the country there are quite a few 20" and 22" rows for corn and soybeans. I think the 22" is rooted in beet country, and lots of corn heads were converted to this width for quite a few years. We've been on 20" since '67, so I don't really know anything else. RamRod is on 22", and runs a Gerhinghoff (spIJ) head for corn. Most heads can be squeezed down to 22", and many down to 20" with no problem. Irv