So I'll go first for the CRs.
Turn the engine 90 degrees so that its a straight shot to the rotors. Run the rotor drive pulley right off the main gear case and mount the driven pulley right on the back of one of the rotor gearboxes. Or else make a one piece rotor gearbox that has the driven pulley right in the center and everything contained in one housing. No need to turn any power in that situation.
Next off the maindrive case, have a shaft drive like the new Cases go down to the feedhouse. Also have a shaft go down to drive the rethreshers/return system. A 90 degree gearbox here would turn the power to drive the cleaning system and on the other side the clean grain auger, elevator, and bubble up. Finally, have a belt or a shaft to drive both the unloading system and the chopper.
Now, I guess there would be need for a beater drive, or else the cleaning system could be shifted further forward and the rotors used to carry the material above the chopper and dump it straight down without a beater, much like the Massey rotaries or the Lexions.
It would need some engineering, but probably could work well. No need for many belts that way either.
Turn the engine 90 degrees so that its a straight shot to the rotors. Run the rotor drive pulley right off the main gear case and mount the driven pulley right on the back of one of the rotor gearboxes. Or else make a one piece rotor gearbox that has the driven pulley right in the center and everything contained in one housing. No need to turn any power in that situation.
Next off the maindrive case, have a shaft drive like the new Cases go down to the feedhouse. Also have a shaft go down to drive the rethreshers/return system. A 90 degree gearbox here would turn the power to drive the cleaning system and on the other side the clean grain auger, elevator, and bubble up. Finally, have a belt or a shaft to drive both the unloading system and the chopper.
Now, I guess there would be need for a beater drive, or else the cleaning system could be shifted further forward and the rotors used to carry the material above the chopper and dump it straight down without a beater, much like the Massey rotaries or the Lexions.
It would need some engineering, but probably could work well. No need for many belts that way either.
