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18c ditch system | I Am ready to order a 20k kuchar combine mod for my deere rotar combine. Anyone out there ever done it? I am supposed to be able to recoop alot of the costs threw decreased grain loss and less fuel consumption. what should I do with the like new deere parts? |
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sc kansas | know of kucher mods done to jd9500 to tune of $7500, and after running a couple of seasons he told me he couldn't tell that it helped any over oem parts |
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South Central MN | What all you putting in for $20000?? Is that for his new rotor?? I knew he was working on one. I put his concave and bars in my JD rotor. Seems to help on beans. Corn, I still have corn coming out the back. I do not think you can keep the corn in a JD rotor. I have tried everything. |
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| If your Deere parts are like new, I would wait until they wear out before you swich them out. Also, I think Deere engineers had a good reason to make three different styles of concaves for the STS that could be switched out in 45 minutes. It would have been much cheaper (and more profitable for Deere) to have one concave for all crops. Kuchar's rasp style threshing elements may be better than Deere's when harvesting wheat that is hard to thresh. |
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NW Washington | Here is another outfit that is making aftermarket stuff for STS combines that will fix every thing except your checkbook. http://www.pfparts.com/sts.html |
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sw corner ia. | St.John welding in st. john, kansas. 800 549 3289. Might want to run your problems by them first and ask what their replacement parts cost. |
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Driftless SW Wisconsin | One of the basics of rotary combine design is that there are major differences in what is the "best" rotor/concave configuration for, say, 18% moisture corn & 30% moisture corn, or dry shatter prone beans and green stem beans. Between 80+ bu wheat and 40 bu beans, even down rice and standing rice. Rotor design is a constant compromise between optimizing rotor performance for one condition but not having it go to heck in another condition. The aftermarket suppliers don't need to worry about corner conditions and can optimize a rotor for a given local condition. Just make sure the kit you buy is optimized for your most common condiion and not going to cause a major problem if you get a weird harvest year. jmho. Jim at Dawn
Edited by Jim 2/10/2010 07:23
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| I put in the concaves and rasp bars last summer. It is hard to quantify how much they help. The fella I bought them from suggested to put in a new Kuchar rotor, but I was not willing to fork out that kind of $$. I was told that the rotor is similar to what is in a Massey combine. |
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NW Ohio | I put the whole package in ours and like it for the most part in beans, in corn liked most the time but still had more loss out back than I like. If you want call me at 419 770 1558 for more details. |
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KUCHAR COMBINE MODS IN THE EVENING
