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SW KS, near Dodge City | Lucas covered it pretty well. I know in hailed-on wheat when you have to go down to get it all, if you run the hood high enough that the standing heads are just a little above the top, then you lose a lot of it out the front, mostly b/c you don't have the wall of wheat to seal against the hood, so in that case the hood had to run quite a bit lower.
Also, if you have some down wheat/broken over wheat that you're going down to get, it will still take a lot of material into the machine. I loaned ours out to a neighbor to try out. He was putting it on an R72 set up for a conventional head. His prior settings were Rotor 950 RPM, 3 filler plates, clearance at 5, top sieve just under 1/2". After putting the stripper head on, the rotor was set at 650-700, 3 plates, clearance at 1.5, top sieve about wide open, bottom sieve still tightened up. We were having problems overloading the shoe b/c the wheat was hailed on, had some weeds coming, and running low to get it all was just putting a tremendous amount of material on the shoe. When I shut it down to check, there was probably 12" of pretty heavy material on the top sieve. With a stripper it's pretty important to try to keep the wheat clean. That heavy green material plays havoc w/ shoe overloading. | |
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Shelbourne stripper head pros/cons
