Combines something other than disrupter bars

Brad,probably no perfect set up as with most combine settings ,everything ends up being a compromise ...I have run a sharktooth shredder the past 2 seasons and am pleased with what it does with bean stems on my standard rotor 1460..added the notched bars this fall and will stick with them...use the slotted grates on the front two and was thinking of going to the keystock style but didn't after conversing with several fellow posters that emailed me and felt that the sharktooth did not work well for them and the main difference turned out to be the grates...the keystocks do some stem breaking and you end up getting too many fine stem pieces and plugging up the sharktooth opening for grain separation..can run corn through this set up with no extra cob breakage but I like the keystock grates for corn when we get to just corn harvesting, and don't feel the time to switch is a problem..

I would suggest using the notched bars with keystock grates. I also tried the sharktooth shredder without much success. It seemed to me that it chopped the stems to fine and they filled up the space above the cage. This packed very tight around the drive shaft that goes through up there and almost started a fire. luckiy we caught it when we smelled something hot and took it home and blew it out. I also felt that it slowed us down alot in green stem beans due to either balling up in the back of the rotor or just extra power consumption. After our troubles with it we removed it and still did a satisfactory job of breaking stems. I should mention that before we ran the sharktooth we had smooth discharge bars so at first I wasn't sure what made the most difference but now I feel it was the notched separator bars. If you have any questions feel free to email me

I'll just add my 2 cents and pass on something that I read in Farmshow magazine. A fellow named Makeef is selling a kit that adds flighting to a standard rotor and he claims the his modified rotor will perform better than a specialty rotor in green stem beans. And that you would not notice a difference in dry conditions. He wants $1000 to $1200 for a diy kit. His ph. number is 701-447-2467 in Mercer N.Dakota. Another thought, a St John Welding modified rotor might be another answer that wouldn't cost much more and would have all new wear surfaces.