Combines Stewart steel Auger front

[Deadduck]

We put the Stewart Steel Axceller kit on the rice rotor in our 2388. I was amazed at the difference it made. I have never heard a combine run so quiet before. No rumbling at all, even in green stemmed soybeans. We had a lot of rain this year, and had some barnyardgrass come up in areas after the beans were too big to spary. We can go through this grass with no problem. Now we can run faster and don't have to slow down for green spots. The engine seems under less strain as well. We haven't started cutting rice yet, but I'm sure it will do very well. The is made of very thick steel, and takes the place of the hub and elephant ears. The hardest part of installation, after we got the rotor out, was getting the old elepahnt ear hub off the shaft. It was stuck pretty good and had to be cut with a torch to get off. But the Axceller kit bolted up easily. I have some pictures I can email you if you're interested. The kits are marketed in the US through Maurer Mfg. So there are many dealers, including most Case-IH dealers. I think we paid $1700 for the kit. Substantially more than elephant ears, but much less than the cost of the AFX rotor, which is about $5000. If our rasp bars had needed replacing, we might have gone with the AFX rotor. But since our chrome rice spikes were only a year old, we decided the kit made more sense. Hope this helps.

 

[CAJUN__BOY]

have specialty rotor out of 2188 crome spikes with extended wear vanes for cage and cone good shape $1000.00 located south louisiana. we installed the AFX rotor in our 2188 changed cage cone was only 2 seasons as spikes and vanes off old rotor this is normal price locally for used rotor contact me if interested

 

[chads]

Hey, I'm not familiar with the spiked rasp bars. We normally do wheat, rye, barley, corn, soybeans, grain sorghum, and a couple other specialty crops. We don't do any rice. Do the spiked bars help with separatingIJ Chads

 

[Deadduck]

The spikes help prevent roping of green material, such as green soybean stems, grass, and weeds. They move tough material on through the rotor instead of letting it bunch up and cause problems. They also chop the straw and stems more and will help with separtation in rice. Some people run them just on the back half of the rotor, while most rice machines have full spikes.