Did you consider refurbishing your machine with solid cylinder from St. John welding. With this improvement and going through your machine you would probably get a better sample than the STS.
Actually considering Kuchar parts for the 9600 right now which is part of the dilemma. Do we put in these parts for the rest of the season then get a walker machine and swap the parts over or save the time and money and get the rotor for next yearIJ
try both,and if you can, try the CTS, hear they do quite well. if going w_ STS, go w_ round bar concaves for beans and corn. small wire for wheat. run feed acc. on low if conditions allow. have very little grain damage w_ mine.
Thats what I hear. what part of the country do you live inIJ I'm in S.D. and not many dealers know anything about them. They think its for rice only. I'd sure like to try one before we trade in 3 yrs.
We farm and ranch in north central Montana. Go tell your dealer that the CTS is not a rice only machine. If it was, then JD wouldn't have made the CTS II Small Grains special which is what ours is. I have said it before and I will say it again. I think JD screwed up by not pushing the CTS in wheat country. If you try one out, make sure you set it according to the book. If you set a CTS like a conventional, then you will not get the capacity the machine is capable of. PS; We might be going to SD this winter to pick up a scale and maybe a tractor.
it would be nice to play w_ one for a week to see what it was like. I wonder if you can do corn in the morning and go to beans w_ out alot of changeoverIJ I hear there is a kit for corn so your ground speed can increase,wonder if they work in beansIJ what part in S.D.IJIJ ya headin tooIJIJ
We really don't know yet but maybe somewhere south of Pierre. (don't know if I spelled that right). I don't know about the changerover from soybeans to corn. The only corn experience we have is cutting 30 acres for a farmer about 30 miles south of us with our 3300. The corn made about 60 bpa which is pretty good for us out here in the arid north plains.
yes you can harvest beans and corn with the corn kit: 10 angle covers and low speed pulley for the separators, which is better than the 20 and high speed you'll use only in small grains (weath, barley, rape...)