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After finishing wheat harvest, in hindsight I feel like I need more "action" within the rotors for separation.
Cutting low, 40' of wheat with draper. Often the stems had some green or slight moisture in the late evenings. I ran HHS small grain keystock, opened half the time. Round bar main concave. Intensive Threshing Segment installed the first few days. (found out when removed it was plugged with mud, likely not doing much good except taking hp...blaming the mud on my wife running the header in the ground on a terrace)
We periodically windrowed the straw to bale in large round bales. Upon inspection, the straw was seldom broke, but kinked. To my surprise, I never found a kernel left in the head, or stem. Unfortunately, I was loosing some loose wheat out the rotors. It wasn't excessive by any means. Also I noticed very minimal straw coming out of the chaffer. It was essentially all wheat husks. This makes me think I need some more action within the rotor cages to mix up the material.
Comparing the rotors/grates to what I learned from 2388's, the 2388 separation area is much smaller, with a more aggressive grate. It has keystock, or even aftermarket disrupter lugs, etc... to rip apart the mat of material and get it to tumble more. The disrupters are even effective at ripping apart corn husks with trapped kernels hiding in the bottom. Although the Lexion has a very large separation area, I feel combined with the smoother roundbar concave, the rotors simply don't tumble the 20"+ straw stems.
Has anyone done something that created more disturbance in the rotor cages similar to a disrupter or keystock. The stock wavey wires are pretty smooth compared to keystock grates that some rotors use for separation.
Cutting low, 40' of wheat with draper. Often the stems had some green or slight moisture in the late evenings. I ran HHS small grain keystock, opened half the time. Round bar main concave. Intensive Threshing Segment installed the first few days. (found out when removed it was plugged with mud, likely not doing much good except taking hp...blaming the mud on my wife running the header in the ground on a terrace)
We periodically windrowed the straw to bale in large round bales. Upon inspection, the straw was seldom broke, but kinked. To my surprise, I never found a kernel left in the head, or stem. Unfortunately, I was loosing some loose wheat out the rotors. It wasn't excessive by any means. Also I noticed very minimal straw coming out of the chaffer. It was essentially all wheat husks. This makes me think I need some more action within the rotor cages to mix up the material.
Comparing the rotors/grates to what I learned from 2388's, the 2388 separation area is much smaller, with a more aggressive grate. It has keystock, or even aftermarket disrupter lugs, etc... to rip apart the mat of material and get it to tumble more. The disrupters are even effective at ripping apart corn husks with trapped kernels hiding in the bottom. Although the Lexion has a very large separation area, I feel combined with the smoother roundbar concave, the rotors simply don't tumble the 20"+ straw stems.
Has anyone done something that created more disturbance in the rotor cages similar to a disrupter or keystock. The stock wavey wires are pretty smooth compared to keystock grates that some rotors use for separation.
