[BMC]

Last year was the first year we planted any wheat in quite a while. So it was actually the first time we've ever cut wheat with a rotary Gleaner. Got things set to our satisfaction and seemed like it was doing a good job. Until all the volunteer wheat came about 2 weeks later. It looked bad, especially when we did some custom cutting for a Deere guy. When we got out to check and see what was on the ground it didn't seem bad at all. And the grain loss monitor was showing loss to be quite minimal. But when we set it my dad said to leave the fan cranked all the way up and in was thinking we should've turned it down a bit. Could that have been our problem? Seems like the fan was maybe blowing everything up and over the grain loss sensors and then out the machine. Or could we have been getting loss somewhere else?

 

[shmiffy]

Should be able to run with the fan wide open. Do u have a jump bar in the separator

 

[pgagnon]

Is the grain loss are behind the shoe(4-5 foot wide) or everywhere(rotor loss or header) ??

 

[gleaner-r76]

If you can keep your loss's down to around one bu. per acre you are doing a good job, but when it comes up it look's worse than it is. I hate to see volunter, but there's no way to prevent it, if the conditon's are right. Wish I could save every kernel, not going to happen!

 

[gmguy]

I agree that you should turn it down a bit. We usually dont ever run wide open on the air, but then again we are chasing every last kernel and give little regard to capacity. we can usually achieve perfection on the shoe, but its a tad tricky getting perfection out the discharge.

On the conventionals we can achieve basically zero overall loss from the combine, just a little reel shatter and thats it.

 

[1156]

Shoe loss will be a strip 6ft wide or so behind the combine. Rotor loss will be spread with the spreader. Drop the spreader or turndown the spreader to drop a short windrow. Check to see where the loss is coming from first. If it's shoe loss, I don't run the fan wide open, Schaffer at 3/4", sieve at 3/8" or so.... If it is rotor loss I usually run concave at closed to 3/8" depending on how hard threshing the wheat is. I run three filler strips in concave for all crops. Rotor at 900-1000rpm. Your r66 should have an adjustable seperator grate. I really like having the adjustable seperator grate. If you are getting rotor loss tighten up the seperator grate and it should help substantially. I like running fast pitch helicalls over the concave and sweeps on the seperator side of the rotor.

 

[meadowgreen]

If the grain on the ground is light test weight, leave it there. Some years it can't be helped and dock on light test weight can really add up. Especially in a poor crop year.

 

[BMC]

Sorry to take a whike to get back to this. But it looked like it was mostly a streak straight out of the back of the combine to me. But when we cut for the neighbor it looked like the whole width of the machine. I think we were having problems with the sieves closing themselves down. Finally found out during bean harvest that both upper and lower were bad. But I'd say loss was about a bushel/A or a bit less. We're finally going to go out and try some today.

 

[fhb]

If you have any scab in your wheat you want to run with the air wide open as those scab damaged kernels are usually lighter in test weight and will only make your sample worse.... best to be out of the combine and on the ground....again thats assuming a few things. I run my air fairly high regardless in wheat so perhaps there's something else going on your R66.

 

[lostcause]

I like the bar bolted to the concave from sunnybrook