I finally plugged up a beater good last night in weedy peas. I've never had one before that I couldn't pull backwards with a 4wd pickup and chain, till now. To get the plug out I ended up pulling the back 2 separator grates and pulled all the loose material there, then I disengage the feed accelerator, and took off the beater belt. Then I had the operator nudge the separator in gear so that the rotor only spun over once. Then dug out all the loose material again from the separator grate area, and after about 6 more times of nudging the rotor and pulling loose material I had access to the plug behind the beater which pulled out with very little effort. Couldn't believe how easy it pulled out and a pickup wouldn't even move the beater just a 1/2 hour earlier! FYI try to pull the material from the front of the beater while standing on the right side of the machine, that's the way the vains are angled.
Hope you get er going,
Chad