Combines started cutting wheat in texas today

[4_Star]

Silver blood, we hyperized our R-62's last year for wheat harvest. Had the wide spaced forward bars and extended bars on discharge end, with 2 bars in the sep. grate area. As it turned out, we had an even cleaner sample of grain in the bin. With rotor loss low. Now when fall milo harvest started it was a different story. We couldn't keep the green leafy milo from going out the rotor. The loss would be most noticeable on the far right hand side of the uncut milo. We tried everything, and ended up putting four reverse bars in the middle two rows. This cleaned up the rotor loss to almost nil. Now getting back to your concern, if you do have any rotor loss you may want to tighten up the left side seperator grate, along with the concave closed down tight. My comine being a 96' has no sep. grate adjustment. I think they started making the sep. grate adjustable in 97', which is definately a good feature. Anyways good luck.

 

[wheatman]

They have been cutting in this part of Texas since the 10 of May.

 

[brodale]

Where is this part of TexasIJ What is the yield likeIJ

 

[wheatman]

30 miles south west of Haskell. low yields. looks good up north.

 

[silver_blood]

The rotor setup is working well. The humidity is high and straw is tough, I think it will work even better when it dries up.

 

[Dan]

What RPM do you run rotor in milo and do reverse bars such up a bunch of power in miloIJ I don't suppose you tried leaving bars off and or installing sharpened gussets it rip open leaves that may be traping seeds. I've heard green milo can cause problems and many have helped problem by installing seperator grate covers. That tells me that grate is rolling crop and traping seeds when green. Installing reverse bars over concave likely helped seperate more at concave to reduce problem later. I can see also why adjustable seperator grate on '97 and newer machines would benefit. I would prefer high wide wire which would be most unlikely to roll crop and then such it up toward cylinder to help keep things moving and rip leaves apart a bit more. Any way its good to hear that reverse bars fixed you up. One thing about it is they can be removed and replace quickly by most. Maybe there is something else you are thinking of tring another year if reverse bars are taking excess power. Keep us informed. Good luck.