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Randy2

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whats the advantages of a rotor combine? i've heard people say that a conventional is better and others say that a rotor combine is better. I do bale straw. It dosnt look like i'm going to get one for this season, but they usally have a few at the spring auction here in somerset pa. also whats a ball park price for the rotor combines? thanks for the info guys
 
If saving and baling the straw is important to you FORGET the rotary combine. They chew it up so much more than a conventional it's usually not worth baling.
 
its not really important to me, but i left the straw on the field one year and my hay crop didnt seem to do as good the year after as when i got the straw off
 
As Bob points out, A rotary is hard on straw if the straw is used for bedding, or sold in small squares for retail. However the grain capture and threshing efficiency of a rotary is much better. Complexity is reduced, and lubrication/maintenance is superior. Jim
 
If the rotary is so much better. Then why is it that we could cut an hour earlier in the morning, and an hour later at night, than the rotaries, and still get the grain out if the head. That was in Montana. In Idaho we had fewer kernels on the screen than the rotaries. This information came from the guys doing the checking for the farm. They had crews with IH,Gleaner,and Deere.
Now I will concede that this was back in the early 90"s and things have changed some. The 9600 was the new machine then . The Idaho wheat was irrigated running around 100bu. to the acre. then.
 
The rotary machine is a gentle machine. On the grain kernels that is. Less dockage due to damaged grain. There are so many changes that have been made over the years on the rotary with specialy rotors etc that it is pretty hard to compare one machine to another without knowing what is inside. Also, a lot of the adjustments are just the opposite of a conventional. Originally the rotor machine was not good in crops like wheat that had some green grass or soybeans with green stalks but I understand that has been totally reversed. I have head several could keep on going in wet crop conditions where the cyl style had to give it up.
 
First off if you cant get good looking straw out of a rotary it is because you do not know how to set the machine. 2nd is your not harvesting it at the right time. We have a 2366 CIH Combine and I can set it so the straw looks like its out of a John Deere.
 
Personally, for rice I would rather have a conventional type "Rice Field Special". However, for any other crop I believe the rotary is the way to go.

Harold H
 
Randy2, Bottom line is less cracked kernels, they are gentler on the crop in the bin.
Frito Lay, when they let out contracts for food grade yellow corn @ Hereford Tx, required their corn to be gathered by a rotary Machine still do as far as I know!
Later,
John A.
 
as long as the straw can be square baled or round baled and removed from the field, i have no problem with it being damaged. thanks for all the info so far guys.
 
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