[btren]

Just looking for an opinion from someone who has tried one or seen one work. does it make a big difference over stock. The factory chopper doesn't do much chopping even though I modified the stationary knives. I will have to heavy harrow the wheat I've combined but I would prefer being able to seed without harrowing especially in canola.

 

[Snipe]

do you have the fine cut chopper or the older model? i do have the fine cut and it does chop it fine when in good harvest conditions. by looking at the rodono it should work that much better more blades and it looks to be a lot heaver. i had a rodondo in a conventional combine and the difference was like day and night over stock

 

[hwy19farm]

I just put one in a R62 and wish I had my $1250 back not nearly what i thought it would do.

 

[btren]

thanks for the comments. I was just wandering hwy19 if you sped up your chopper when you changed choppers. whats the diff between my std. chopper and a fine cut, just faster rpm or is the rotor and knife different?

 

[Snipe]

the fine cut has has razer sharp blades when new and long blades in concave part and it also runs faster. yes its all differant

 

[wheaty75]

Have 3 rodono choppers and love them

 

[mrgrothen]

I run the fine cut in an R75 and do @650 acres of beans and same of corn and the blades especially the ones on the right side of the discharge are in need of replacing every year. I suppose that if I save half of the blades from the left half of the chopper for each of two seasons, I could get one final season from this set of blades provided they would be reversed. However something new this year is agco is campaigning these fine cut choppers on 04 and newer machines and are replacing the blades with a new thicker blade design. I will know more about how they stand up hopefully in november as I believe the harvest is 1-3 weeks later this year even in NE where we got most crops in on time-april for corn and may for beans. Can't imagine how far behind the crops must be in areas that had long rain delays.

 

[wheaty75]

mrgrothen, you need to extend your helicals farther on the discharge side. I don't have the pictures but believe somebody on here does. By extending them it will feed more head on (if you know what I mean)

 

[mrgrothen]

Thanks for the advice. Perhaps if I pull the rotor next season, I will make the addition. I would like to state though that this machine is an 04' and I have already put in the steep slope thresher helicals with 1/4" shims, and this summer did one of Dan's feed floor kits. I hope all this adds up to some improvements. I am kind of disgusted with a machine made this late in history especially considering the fact that they began making this same basic machine since 92' that needs so many updates to make it handle soybeans. I guess I should accept the fact that this machine was designed from day one with the myopic vision that those great kansas wheat fields out west of Independance MO were the entire world and corn and soybeans, what's that? I like the idea that a company such as AGCO competes with red and green but I can't say I think much of how they do it. They seem to have a lot of issues with as they say in the army 'pulling it out'. The basic 2 series should had many of these problems solved from a much earlier date and if they had, perhaps their north american market share would not be so dismal. Sorry for the rant but none of us should have to be doing so many modifications to these machines a lot of which have been figured out by individuals with a love of the basic machine. Talk about providing corporate engineering charity.

 

[hwy19farm]

Btren,just about finished with wheat harvest.The R62 I have the rodono in also has the Clinton knife assembly under it,running on high speed.The R72 has standard chopper and knive.We saw little improvment in higher humidty days,one day they put barley straw out in 20 inch pieces.When we got to lower humidty or hot windy days it would chop better but not as I exspected.I have used on canola ,barley,wheat so far real test will be in soybeans.