I'm no big fan of the STS combines. I in fact run another color but have owned a 9750STS for a few years and ran another 9650 STS on the wheat harvest for a summer. One of the very few things I actually like on those machines were the hydraulic driven chaff/straw spreader. I loved being able to speed them up and slow them down from the cab and the ability to drop straw easily was another plus.
I now run Massey combines. 9895 to be exact. It has a small Redekop chaff spreader thats hyd driven and 2 larger spinners for the straw that are belt driven. What I want to do is somehow adapt the JD design onto the Massey machine. Just run one set of spinners for both chaff and straw. I have a hard time in green or damp soybean straw choking up the chaff spinners. We rarely get a killing frost til way into the harvest season but when we do its night and day difference.
Anyone know how the Deere spinner hydraulic system is tied into the rest of the machine? Any diagrams of that? Any idea how much oil flow is needed at the highest rpm? I already have the small Redekop spinners and I could possibly use the oil flow there but I'm not real sure on the gallons per minute it flows or what might be needed for the Deere style setup.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I'm going at it blind with not much help from either Deere or Massey...they all think I'm crazy.
I now run Massey combines. 9895 to be exact. It has a small Redekop chaff spreader thats hyd driven and 2 larger spinners for the straw that are belt driven. What I want to do is somehow adapt the JD design onto the Massey machine. Just run one set of spinners for both chaff and straw. I have a hard time in green or damp soybean straw choking up the chaff spinners. We rarely get a killing frost til way into the harvest season but when we do its night and day difference.
Anyone know how the Deere spinner hydraulic system is tied into the rest of the machine? Any diagrams of that? Any idea how much oil flow is needed at the highest rpm? I already have the small Redekop spinners and I could possibly use the oil flow there but I'm not real sure on the gallons per minute it flows or what might be needed for the Deere style setup.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I'm going at it blind with not much help from either Deere or Massey...they all think I'm crazy.