Combines striker bar

It is a wear strip that helps reduce wear to front cross bars of concave. It has been removed for some very tender crops like popcorn. It starts the thresh to a little extent and likely improves suction at cylinder to a minor extent. Usually if I find part of one missing something like rock or iron has sheared a bolt or two and ripped it off. I've never ran without it unless some was missing and didn't know it. I'm dieing to hear how your rotor worked. Did you replace a standard rotor with no extended bars or reverse bars installed or whatIJ Seperator grate installed with wires removed or anythingIJ Did you run any edible beans or miloIJ Thanks a bunch

Thanks for your response. I will follow your advise and reinstall a new bar.Four or five years ago we started with a stock machine but we couldn't eliminate broken cobs and kernals in the grain tank. We removed half the rotor bars (4) over the concave and played with the wedge. It helped some but I was not completely satisfied. After researching this web site we installed the modification to the cage and rotor. This made a big difference, especially in green stem soybeans. Terry at St.John Welding suggested building a six bar configuration cylinder and changed the pitch of the bar to the cage. We followed his suggestion and was impressed with the results. We have less kernal and cob damage due to the slower rpm and a wider concave opening. We harvested 10-18% soybeans and it worked great. The cylinder is heavier, the rpm runs steady and the machine runs smoothly. I am reluctant to pull the concave wires because we also harvest wheat and milo. What do you thinkIJ Mac

I'm not sure but I believe alot of broken cobs come from seperator side. I'm thinking that might be first place to start removing bars. I know Gleaner and others have suggested to remove everyother bar so I thought maybe the St. John six bar with option of sweeps might just be cats meow. I assume the trick you did with old rotor was extend bars and get rid of reverse bars. What did you do with cageIJ I'm curious if the cylinder bars will wear crown of bar faster when fastened flat to cylinder like the old conventionals. I believe the rear half of concave is allready high wide wire on '96 machine. We don't have trouble with high wide front concave or every other removed from low narrow wire in our hard to thresh wheats ect. we just install up to four filler bars and tighten up front half of concave if we need to. I was curious if the sweeps helped eliminate need for seperater grate cover for green milo. Thanks for info.