[00buckshot]

Having hard time keeping loss down over walkers in rice and beans----spike tooth machine more of a problem than rasp. If i speed cylinder up to 700 or 800 rpm seems to help, but starts breaking beans up pretty bad.

So I was wondering if the beater speeding up with the cylinder was what is helping fluff crop and if there was any way to increase beater speed without increasing cylinder speed.

 

[rws]

You can slow or speed up beater 25% with these beater drive parts from John Deere
H135850 pulley
H135849 pulley
AH163931 belt

there used to be a kit but parts says it's not available any more

 

[farmerplumber]

i installed a beater speed up kit and it helps(somewhat) No cure. but helps. I think its called persion farm parts. http://www.pfparts.com/index.html beater kit.