Combines spreading straw with R 62

we change the driven sheive at the back to speed it up for wheat harvest. I don't have the part n on hand but it is one found on the machine in another location. This ofcoarse adds more load on the return chain. Hydraulic spreader would be the hot ticket.

I have seen the odd R series listed with dual spreaders but haven't seen one is there such a thingIJ

Yes there were dual spreaders kits for old Ns. They were hydralic drive and looked just like the mechanical drive dual spreaders found on R6-60-7-70 and likely R5s. There was a kit to install mechanical dual spreader on R62-72s but have not seen one installed. We don't seem to have any trouble spreading to what we want but we do have choppers!! I did hear of a guy one time that made an adjustable plate inside discharge to direct the straw more fore or aft on spreader to control the discharge. He said this worked very well. I would also say the better you flow material threw machine the better the spread will be. If any part of the machine is causing material to come out in chunks it will not spread well. Thus we have hyperizing. Good luck

on a hyperized R-62 _ 72 in average conditions in wheat how far do they spread the strawIJ I am no till and need very good straw and chaff managment.

We have a R72 with the factory twin spreaders and have no problems in spreading to 30 feet.When working it side by side with the single spinner spreaders it does seem to spread a little more even in light crops and when in heavy wet crops we can do a lot better as the twin spreader has a two pulley system so it's easy to speed it up. It then throws a huge rooster tail of material out behind the combine. The downside is that material manages to make it into the rear left hand side of the engine bay and in the early days we had trouble with the bevel gears driving the spinners. The 72 has a chopper installed

Our R-62 2001 came factory with dual mech.spreader but wasn't suposed to due to the longer shoe. Dealer took it of and put single spinner on. We could bearly get 22' spread in wheat before we changed shieves. Had very light straw this year but we could trough straw on the standing wheat.

Usually when season first starts there is a complaint of straw not chopped enough. This usually goes away shortly after season gets going but there is a fine cut chopper now available. Spread would have a hard time making it 28'in these conditions with the standard mechanical drive at standard speed. I don't know if the new machines have faster fastest speed when equiped with hydralic spreader. We do not have any no till around hear and most operations run a harrow over the stubble before working the ground. I would suggest to ask the question on other board where many new viewers can give you some advise. I know the dealer in Mandan ND has chaff spreader tail fins that will spread the chaff a great distance and I believe they have experience with the dual spreaders in the no till areas. Good luck

its good to know there are several ways to get a good straw spread, when I get caught up a bit Iam going to look at a few used ones. thanks for the replys.

You can get a higher speed out of the spreader,if you take the long drive belt off and use 2 shorter ones. Neighbor did this on a R-72 and it will throw bean straw 5' past the end of a 25' header.Hasn't seemed to created any spreader problems.

What size did you change from, and end up with. Would you change the driven side and the drive side. Do you think you would need to put a wider belt system on instead off double pulleys.