[ru4gleaner2]

Bought a used R62 for fall harvest. We've been conventional Gleaner people all our lives, so still a little strange to us yet. What do you guys recommend the rotor speed break between moving your gearbox from Hi to Low or vice versa? I guess what I'm asking is there a magic RPM where you should move your gear box to hi from low? Will be cutting Soybeans & Milo this fall and Wheat in the summer. I'm sure it says in the operator's manual somewhere but haven't got to that section yet. Just curios. Thanks!

 

[drallis]

Always do corn in "low" and 250 to 350 rpm. Soybeans in "high" at 550 to 700 rpm usually. Always in high for anything that might potentially "plug" the rotor so you can open concave and shift into "low" to unslug it.

 

[knagel]

I agree with drallis. Plus 300 in low is about 600-650 in high so you really don't have much adjusting to do just shift gears.

 

[ru4gleaner2]

Now I'm a rookie here but I figured you would use less horsepower if you would run the gearbox at the top end of low gear versus the low end of high gear? I'm sure there's some physics working here that might prove this wrong. I was thinking you would use less power if you wanted to run the rotor @ 600 in low versus high.

 

[drallis]

It can run only 500 tops in "low"......plus if you slug the machine and you're already in"low", what are you gonna do?????

 

[ru4gleaner2]

Sounds great guys. Thanks for all the help. This baby is different than our old L2's. We'll eventually get everything figured out!!!