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I know these machines are capable of great things but it can get very frustrating trying to set your new combine so I thought "wouldn't it be nice to have a thread for each combine model that I could check to see how other guys are setting theirs to save me a lot of time and stress". So hopefully this thread will take off and can be used by all guys when they are looking for some ballpark settings. Name the crop, crop condition, yield, harvest condition, ground speed, rotor, concave setting and type, fan, pre-sieve, lower sieve, top sieve, etc. Who knows, maybe this thread will help you out one day...... Maybe a 8120 and 2388/2588/6088/7088 thread will take off too. I know it would be a great help to us all at one point or another.
I'll start off with my canola settings:
Crop was swathed, dry, no green, 45ish bu/ac.
Rotor 520, Fan 650, Small wire concaves, Concave around 15-20, Pre-Sieve at 2, Lower Sieve 5, Top Sieve 7, ground speed 4-5mph. No Rotor Loss, Sieve loss acceptable up to 4.5mph but too high over that speed. Sample I took to elevator showed 2.8% dockage.
Note I am a Rookie canola grower/combiner so I'm sure settings could be tweaked to increase ground speed but I only had 200 acres to do.
I'll start off with my canola settings:
Crop was swathed, dry, no green, 45ish bu/ac.
Rotor 520, Fan 650, Small wire concaves, Concave around 15-20, Pre-Sieve at 2, Lower Sieve 5, Top Sieve 7, ground speed 4-5mph. No Rotor Loss, Sieve loss acceptable up to 4.5mph but too high over that speed. Sample I took to elevator showed 2.8% dockage.
Note I am a Rookie canola grower/combiner so I'm sure settings could be tweaked to increase ground speed but I only had 200 acres to do.