Combines Questions

[2rotorsrule]

You'll be disappointed with a Cat in Wheat...and as far as tough soybeans.......lets just say a TR98 will outwork a 480 lexion if irrigated beans get real green and tough stemmed. The 480 is a monster in Corn and gives a great sample with amazing capacity, that is if you have an even crop of corn. Once cob sizes and varying cob dryness begins to become a factor your sample will get worse. I laugh everytime I hear someone say the cat has such great capacity. In certain crops...yes, but wheat and especially tough soys....no WAY!

 

[Harvester]

And I can make a JD 6620 outdo a NH TR98 if I set up the NH to fail. I have been amazed from day one of its arrival at the Cat's ability to handle widely varying crops and conditions; it simply has no equal in performance. Do certain adjustments have to be made from tough green stem beans to dry, brittle wheatIJ You bet. Just like a TR. Don't get me wrong, the NH twin rotor system has some merit, but performance in small grains has never been its strong suit. If you laugh, you laugh alone.

 

[Big_Green]

I will laugh too!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dakota]

Which lexion do you runIJ

 

[Dr_Allis]

I'm sure glad you guys signed on, now I won't have to tell about a customer that traded in 2 TR99's for one lexion 480. All machines had 12-row cornheads and after a 4 hr demo in hills and flat running it was determined that the Cat was doing the work of 1 1_2 of the TR99's, so the deal was made. They farm 6,000 acres of mostly corn and beans and after 3 seasons the Cat is being traded for a new 590 lexion, but probably will stay with 12 rows on the CH.

 

[Harvester]

That's the funny thing; I don't. If I was still in the cutting game, though, I would say that I would probably have at least one in the fleet. Nope, I just do a bit of my own and run a "word-of-mouth" combine repair business locally in ND. Then I follow every opportunity in harvest to get around and help test and tune my customers' machines, which cover every color of the rainbow.

 

[tobaboy]

Over an entire season we usually run about 8-10a_hr more then our neighbors TR 97s, we harvest wheat, barley, oats, canola, flax, peas and beans. I was always a little disappointed with our 480 in wheat, the sample was great, but I thought we should be getting a little more capacity out of it, we never seemed able to run it to full engine load, losses always limited us. Anyways, we bought a new 480r for this past season and I tried setting it a little different in wheat. I ran the concave right closed, cylinder slow (550-650),rotors as slow as possible (the variable speed is great for determining_experimenting with this),and the wind right open with the windboard in hole 7, I was running very little in the way of returns, which of course helped with the losses. The sample was still great, but I was able to run it to 100% engine load all day, without ever being limited by losses. After running this past year with the 480r, I suspect that the concave in our 480 was out of level, have you ever checked thisIJ How do you set your machine, and is it a small grains machine or corn_soybeanIJ

 

[dakota]

How was the crop condition this year compared to last yearIJ You know that the lexion has a lot more trouble the drier it gets.

 

[dakota]

Hmmh ...., you praise the lexion but only from word of mouth not from real experience. I harvest in ND, too. My customers there told me not to bring any lexions anymore.

 

[Rooster]

The only factor causing a TR-Anything to out perform any lEXION is the "human" factor. The lexion was so poorly set (probably to fail) that it could not perform properly.