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Michigan | You are running about the same combination as me--I've got a 2166 with 25' 1020 head and specialty rotor with Gordon bars and helical concaves. I think your settings are pretty close--generally for tough green stem beans I like to run tight and fast. In doing so you do give up some capacity. I doubt you will gain much by messing with the transport vanes. Sometimes there is nothing to do but slow down and grind through it. It helps when they are yielding good, it's really not fun when you are crawling through a tangled tough mess of white mold at 25-30 bu/acre.
Last year I was running in the same field with a JD 9770 running a 35' draper head. In good dry beans we were both going around 3.5 mph. Obviously he was doing about 30% more than me due to the bigger head, but I thought the old 2166 was showing up well, especially since I had an auger platform.
At one point we switched to a field with nasty green stem tangled and white-molded beans. The 9770 did slow down a bit, but probably held 3.2 mph. I was barely able to do 1.5-2mph in these conditions. I think the head makes a big difference. Drapers just flat out feed better in tough conditions and don't slug the machine. When your feederhouse reverser is a starter motor from Mickey Mouse's car you just don't push very hard but I'd love to see what a 2166 or 2366 could do with a good draper on it.
Edited by Mike_N 10/24/2025 11:56
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2366 in tough laid over beans?