This came up over in the Deere section and I would like to know more about this issue but didn't want to derail their thread. Supposedly smelling a kochia plant will plug the rethresher? Is this a real issue, or slightly scewed perspective from someone who isn't a big fan of his grandpas case combine? I'm seriously considering a late 8010 or 8120 so I would like to know any issues like this.
Or open the sieves and put the material in the tank. It's not that you are a case hater, but you have had some bad experiences with the last couple of combines, which can make every additional issue that much more frustrating. We rarely cut in weeds, this year being the exception, but I wanted more info on the subject before I end up regretting a purchase. It sounds like some gorden bars and helicals would help with your issues though fj, they will thresh any thing that is thresh able.
My 2388 has no problems dealing with kochia and I don't want to step backwards.
This year we had a few weeds but nothing like those pictures. I agree with Torriem though, take care of it the first time through and then either blow the stuff on the ground or put it in the tank, if there are weeds in the field that's the price you pay.
Yeah those conditions can plug the return on almost anything. Played **** with my 2188, but my 2388 has a modified gorden airjet thanks to doorknob and it marched right through with just a bit of leaf material in the tank. Only draw back was after two days of thin wheat the back half of the chaffer was full of beards from no grain traffic, so when I got into some good wheat I started getting clean grain looping, took a screwdriver and cleaned it out and problem solved.
How is that crap getting out of your rotor Fj, those grates look plugged to me. You guys still around dodge or have you made it up to Colby yet?
I run my chaffer at 16 and sieve at 16 most of the time in good wheat and this year we had 11 inchs of rain in the last 2 weeks of harvest and the crab grass and pig weeds over took the wheat on the customer I was harvesting for. after unplugging the rethresher 6 times and digging chaffer out cause it was caked with **** I found that if you leave sieve open and close chaffer down to 10 I got along fine and sample was still clean. I was putting more out the back but that's what you get I thank when the conditions are the way they are. also on a side note it was so bad that I plugged concaves and rotor 3 times so it was very nasty and looked like silage comen out the back
Glad I run a LEXION. No re-thresher here, thanks to the APS HYBRID system and JETSTREAM cleaning. I did update my returns elevator with the new optimized transition head and haven't come close to plugging it in the two seasons since, not that I plugged that often before in tough green-stem beans or high weed pressure with a 40' platform. Last season I added the 1 1/8 deep-tooth bottom sieve and last season and it reduced returns even more. No slowing down, no plugging, steady-as-she-goes.
If the closest dealer wasn't 200mi away I'd be on a lex like a fat kid on a cup cake!
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