In Reply to: Re: Re: Jd 9000 series walker losses posted by Rosco on November 13, 2004 at 00:08:10:

We also have a market for straw and I stick with walker machines, however I dont have the moisture you do and I wish I did here in California. When the straw has moisture the combine will do the best job, wont overthrash the straw and put it all on the screens to seperate. Also Are you cutting that four ft of straw all the way down. When ours makes it that tall we cut the normal 10-12inches with the head and swath the remainder and we have NO losses because were not overloading the seperator. 2 bushel loss is completley unacceptable here for a custom cutter. We even had to remove all the curtains over the walkers because they were doing too good a job seperating heads and also crumbling straw and then sending it all to the shoe.