Combines TR88 and High yields

[JD]

Are you sure it is out of the machine or is it off the headerIJ How dry is the cornIJ If it is 20% and less he is going going to lose some off the header especially if it is an older header with worn flutes, like a 974, 962 or the like. Is he running the bottom sieve or just the topIJ Really, he should have no trouble handling a 6 row @ 2mph with the yield you say, if the machine is set right. JD

 

[Ilnewholland]

John, one thing we always do is to drop the extension(spIJ) on the sieve all the way down. That seems to let cobs and stuff shake off, otherwise the sieve will overload and corn will ride out the back. I would also take bottom sieve out, open top sieve up and put a lot of air to it. Also open concave up to 13 and a rotor speed that will just get all the grain off the cob(600rpm maybe). It must be nice to have good corn like that. Ilnewholland

 

[John]

The head is two years old with the plastic snouts and from our conversation he is saying that the monitor is detecting the loss so I would say at this point rotor or shoe loss. I will guess that it is @20%. We have even discussed pulling out my 20 yr old machine that is considerable larger and doing the side hills. He has never experienced this high of yields and I hit over 200bpa several years in a row and was my reason for such a large machine, my conventional couldn't handle it. Thanks

 

[JD]

Yeah, he shouldn't have a whole lot of header loss with that head. I wish I had one of those! :-(( Try what Ilnh said above, if he isn't already. But the machine should handle that amount of corn and do a fine job. I switched over to 24inch rows the last year we ran a TR-86, I had a 7 row header on it. We had 200bu+ corn that year and it did what it was supposed to do. With the smaller TR's, we never ran the bottom sieve in corn. Hope you guys get this sorted out! JD