Kile machine makes the flight kits we are using and they work great and are very reasonably priced. They are is Washington State though, which is a long way from Scotland, so I'm not sure how much the shipping would be.

 

Are you just going to replace with different kind of elephant ears or are you wanting to upgrade to an AFX style front end? I've only seen one kind of aftermarket elephant ears but I can't remember who makes them. They're smaller than OEM and are supposed to feed better. I have experience with the Stewert Steel Axcellerator and it works excellent. I just put the Loewen AFX frontend on my 2366 this winter but haven't had a chance to use it yet. I'll know more in a couple of weeks when we start cutting wheat

 

Thanks for that guys. Going to try the Ron Kile flights as they have had lots of good reviews on here. The Stewart Axcellerator is a serious piece of metal and has a frieght charge to match to get to me it too has had great reviews and I have seriously considered one. This is the latest mod to my axial flow. I already have Gorden Bars and an airflow chaffer and GPS yield monitoring. What next?

Cheers BB

 

You will not regret the decision to go with Kile rotor flights. I have my 1688 set up very similar to yours and it works very well.

 

I don't know what conditions you harvest in but we farm some pretty severe ground and require hillside machines. Because of the conditions and the added weight we have the hydro pressure set at about 8,000 psi stall pressure which makes a huge difference in how they pull and slip much less than the stock setting. The other thing is have the pump on the engine turned up 1 turn on the screw. With these settings my 2388 in 3rd gear with the parking break on will not pull the motor down more than 150 rpms during a stall test. Most of the time I am cutting with rpms running at 2400, 100 below max, except climbing a steep hill. My machine will acctually not feed as fast as it has power to handle the material. Even on a level land machine I can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to have the extra power just in case, and for the extra productivity. When ordering the Kile flights you might want to order an extra set of wear bars for the front so you have them. We ran the one in my 2388 for 3 seasons, approximatly 500 seperater hours. We then replaced the wear bars, and powder hardfaced all the leading edges and places that were showing any wear. I believe they have gone to a harder chrome allow wear bar now for longer life. With these repairs to my machine along with a new chromed cone and vanes, new extended wear cage and SS vanes, I will not worry about pulling the rotor again for at least 3 seasons. Good luck with your new flights, you will love them and hopefully have a proporus harvest.

 

you might want to get the transition pieces from kile well worth it not very much $ how are your crops doing on the other side of the pond?

 

Will look into that thankyou Montana.

Crops were looking well up to yesterday. Just enough rain here so no drought stress as is happening in southern England and parts of Europe. We had strong winds last night 80mph gusts and see my greenhouse upside down and a few trees down but haven't quite ventured out yet.

Wheat is approaching flag leaf and Canola has lost its petals and forming pods. Markets are strong at the moment. There looks to be a shortage of quality malting barley and the premium over wheat is getting larger. Although I read some guys have sold wheat in England are having to buy back forward sown wheat as they have oversold at lower prices than today,

Cheers BB