Combines why do you hyperize

I like to compare it to a sports car,they run great right off the lot,but why settle for stock when you can make them dust every thing aroundIJ

You are reading ideas from some extremely intelligent guys who like to get 110% performance from not only combines but also every piece of machinery they own. In my case, I dont run enough acres to do much experimenting on my combine so I have to rely on the guys here who farm in areas that have longer harvesting periods and who literally try everything. Right today, my new utility vehicle is in my shop for whatever Hyperizing I can do to it. A few weeks ago, my Ford Excursion sat in the shop and had a lot of stuff done to it before I was satisfied with it. Next, my new riding lawn mower will get a thorough going over including some of my own modifications that I cant wait to do. It all depends on you. Do you like tweaking your machinery to get the most from it or are you satisfied with stock performanceIJ Some of us are and some of us arent, but all of us can learn from the experts here and decide for ourselves what route we want to follow. You dont have to touch a Gleaner if you can prefer or you can make it to suit you to a tee. The choice is yours.

Many of the hyperizing tricks discussed here have been incorporated in to the new Gleaners. Channel helicals, feeder house shocks, extended discharge bars_paddles, and removing some reverse bars are now done for you right from the factory. Word has it that even more are being done to the new 5 series. A brand new R75 would get put right to work around here, with no mods, and would no doubt chase the other colors right out of the wheat fields. Ed in Montana

One good reason for fiddling with the combine is because the same factory machine is expected to harvest everything, corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, grass, canola ect. Kinda a "jack of all trades, master of none," and if your only doing one or two of these crops chances are you can tweak the machine to do a better job in your main crops. CIH has required different rotors to handle green stalk beans and other tough crops for years, then it needs tweaking to shell corn like the standard rotor. There is a bunch of aftermarket gadgets available for CIH machines. And I am sure the other rotaries need to be tweaked to better handle certain crops.

The difference was on CaseIH machines we just called it field improvements.On my Case IH rotaries I had the spec. rotor and could not do a good job on wheat (hard thresh) or corn without the Marvin Gordon bars and the air deflector. The stock R65 handled the wheat better then the modified Case Ih. later Dave

Owners of other brands of combines do it all the time. In fact there is such a demand for these major modifications that they are sold as kits, ie. Kuchar sells a ton of stuff for Green machines. In those kits they replace "major" things like concaves etc... Even the oldest Gleaner rotaries do not need as much modification as a recent green or red machine. As indicated in other posts newer Gleaners need very little modification to maximize their performance. In my opinion new R-75 needs about 30 minutes of changes to be optimal in corn and soybeans.

I have walked the fields where Hyper I and Hyper II live. They know what they are doing. They have less loss than anyplace I have scouted in the U.S., some come close. You can learn a lot from those boys. If Gleaner wants to sell combines, they are listening too. Deere outsells everything here, even Red outsells Silver. No need for that.