cts

just did the beater and cylinder on my cts11 this year and increased capacity from 8t/h to 13t/h.

buts; i found other worn parts and replaced them that might explain increased capacity and changed the setup a little. first i found the divider panel between the rotors where it comes over from the beater was worn out and would have tagged material getting into the rotors.I also rebuilt the feeder house clutch.and the feeder chain was set on corn settings and has now been put on small grain.

But the machine now uses less fuel (it used to take a tank to do 70t now it would do 140 t of canola)

It will aso go at night when it would not he previous year.

There have been also no beater blocks in canola while last year i had at least 5 where i had to wind the rotors out to clear.

the other thing is in hot conditions the canola munches up the straw and overloads the seives but you just slow the cylinder down more than you normally would. I only just put it in high gear the other day after the barley got tough. but it would go through most things at 530rpm.

when the beater gets installed the stripper plates that surround the beater come out but the problem is canola gets out these holes and gets on the vari belt causing it to slip . the answer is john deere tape bits of rubber and window cleaner on the belt gets rid of the oil.
it also took a mechanic three and a half days to fit and depending on tyre size you might have to remove the right wheel and the vari sheave drives and the repeat elevator. the other possible complication is that you might have a bent cylinder shaft and the drive for the beater gear box can be difficult to remove and may need special tools.

I would definitly recomend to do it to the machine. It has turned an ordinary machine in canola to a reasonable one.