In Reply to: Re: Re: R series cylinder bars posted by ahbecalm on December 06, 2004 at 07:28:33:
I've heard of them running soybeans and wheat with no problems in Kansas. Hard to say what would happen up north in our harder to thresh situations. St. John's six bar with his sweeps and or however Gleaner sets up there six bar with knifes or kickers may be better. I have some standard Gleaner eight bar rotors with six bars spinning in row A with sweeps in place of missing bars and the same thing in row B working very well at keeping material moving. When material keeps moving we don't get the broken cobs or whatever going to the shoe to try clean up. Some machines are running only four bars in row A with sweeps where bars are missing and the exact same thing in row B. Working very well so far. If you look at the rotors that St. John builds for other makes with just a few Gleaner bars on them it makes you think we have to many. Might be the hard thresh crops that demand more bars and Gleaner has seemed to concentrate maybe a little to much on making it work fair everywhere in every condition??