Combines wet corn settings

[skinnb]

Slow rotor to 350 and pull everyother wire in all three concaves. Run concaves open as possible without leaving kernals on cobs.

 

[3b_farms]

What do u set your vains onIJ

 

[tj]

What problems are you havingIJ Are you breaking up cobs, suffering shoe overload, rotor lossIJ

 

[3b_farms]

Our main problem is that we are plugging our concaves with green leaves.

 

[dakota]

Try concave on 36 and cylinder on 460. In wet corn you need to run just a little tighter and a bit faster than in dry corn. The old rule still applys, try to keep the cob whole (open concave if neccesary) and clean the kernels off (speed up cylinder). Make sure you take your bottom sieve out, to keep it from plugging. Check your top sieve frequently. It might gum up. Especially when you go over 30% moisture.

 

[All_colours_turned_Yellow]

If you are in real wet corn put smooth rasp bars into your cylinder. This will help with some of the grinding. In wet or dry corn I never run a bottom sieve.

 

[Steve]

If you don't run a bottom sieve, how tight do you run the chafferIJ

 

[all_colours_turned_Yellow]

If you have your cylinder,concave settings proper only cobs go over the walkers in one whole piece and and all you have to deal with is shelled corn over the top sieve. Set your concave clearance a little less than the diameter of a shelled off cob and adjust your cylinder speed to just roll the kernals off of the cob. This works very well on conventional combines, I can't speak for rotaries. If you have different corn variaties in the same rows this can be difficult as some varieties have different moistures and different actual cob sizes, you nhave to keep a happy medium.