Todd Dale

Well, corn's kind of, I mean, it's the same type of thing because a lot of the time you're killing the plant by running the combine through it. Same thing with the soybeans. There's a lot of green left, especially early on. So you want to minimize the potential movement of the cob once it's

got itself into your concave cage so if you can imagine you know you've got you've got a round ear of corn a round cob round rotor rounded elements on or rotor bars you don't want that cob to be able to like roll and twist and things like that you want it to stay like as linear to the rotor as you can so you want it to almost be pinned between like the rotor and the concave in a perfect world and i understand we're not you know that that's an unrealistic expectation but

got itself into your concave cage so if you can imagine you know you've got you've got a round ear of corn a round cob round rotor rounded elements on or rotor bars you don't want that cob to be able to like roll and twist and things like that you want it to stay like as linear to the rotor as you can so you want it to almost be pinned between like the rotor and the concave in a perfect world and i understand we're not you know that that's an unrealistic expectation but

got itself into your concave cage so if you can imagine you know you've got you've got a round ear of corn a round cob round rotor rounded elements on or rotor bars you don't want that cob to be able to like roll and twist and things like that you want it to stay like as linear to the rotor as you can so you want it to almost be pinned between like the rotor and the concave in a perfect world and i understand we're not you know that that's an unrealistic expectation but

That's what you're hoping to do. So a lot of the time, closing a concave clearance down to match the circumference of the ear is what you want to do. That's one place where our XPR bar will shine is you can get away with running some tighter clearances like an 18 or 20 millimeter gap on your rotor clearance. And a rotor speed of right around 300 RPMs.

That's what you're hoping to do. So a lot of the time, closing a concave clearance down to match the circumference of the ear is what you want to do. That's one place where our XPR bar will shine is you can get away with running some tighter clearances like an 18 or 20 millimeter gap on your rotor clearance. And a rotor speed of right around 300 RPMs.

That's what you're hoping to do. So a lot of the time, closing a concave clearance down to match the circumference of the ear is what you want to do. That's one place where our XPR bar will shine is you can get away with running some tighter clearances like an 18 or 20 millimeter gap on your rotor clearance. And a rotor speed of right around 300 RPMs.

You want to keep that gap as tight as you can without damaging the kernel. So again, I'll go back to the cracking point theory of the grain. It's always good to know at what point your combine is too aggressive for your grain. So when is it cracking a high volume or a high percentage grain? of kernels. And at that, that setting's no good.

You want to keep that gap as tight as you can without damaging the kernel. So again, I'll go back to the cracking point theory of the grain. It's always good to know at what point your combine is too aggressive for your grain. So when is it cracking a high volume or a high percentage grain? of kernels. And at that, that setting's no good.

You want to keep that gap as tight as you can without damaging the kernel. So again, I'll go back to the cracking point theory of the grain. It's always good to know at what point your combine is too aggressive for your grain. So when is it cracking a high volume or a high percentage grain? of kernels. And at that, that setting's no good.

You've got to go more open from there, or you've got to slow your rotor down slightly. One of the two, and sometimes I wish I could tell you every time what the secret is, but sometimes for me, it's slowing my rotor down 20 more RPMs. For you, it might be opening your clearance up two more millimeters. It's just hard to know exactly which one is going to be the correct way to do it.

You've got to go more open from there, or you've got to slow your rotor down slightly. One of the two, and sometimes I wish I could tell you every time what the secret is, but sometimes for me, it's slowing my rotor down 20 more RPMs. For you, it might be opening your clearance up two more millimeters. It's just hard to know exactly which one is going to be the correct way to do it.

You've got to go more open from there, or you've got to slow your rotor down slightly. One of the two, and sometimes I wish I could tell you every time what the secret is, but sometimes for me, it's slowing my rotor down 20 more RPMs. For you, it might be opening your clearance up two more millimeters. It's just hard to know exactly which one is going to be the correct way to do it.

But basically, you want to just minimize the potential movement of a corn cob once it's in the rotor cage.

But basically, you want to just minimize the potential movement of a corn cob once it's in the rotor cage.

But basically, you want to just minimize the potential movement of a corn cob once it's in the rotor cage.

Just probably Google Estes Concaves. I mean, it's going to be, it'll pop up and everything. Our website's estesperformanceconcaves.com. All the information that you should, I mean, a lot that you need to get started on the investigation process, if it's something you want to move forward with, and then give one of us a call. We've got phone numbers listed on there. We'd be happy to talk with you.

Just probably Google Estes Concaves. I mean, it's going to be, it'll pop up and everything. Our website's estesperformanceconcaves.com. All the information that you should, I mean, a lot that you need to get started on the investigation process, if it's something you want to move forward with, and then give one of us a call. We've got phone numbers listed on there. We'd be happy to talk with you.

Just probably Google Estes Concaves. I mean, it's going to be, it'll pop up and everything. Our website's estesperformanceconcaves.com. All the information that you should, I mean, a lot that you need to get started on the investigation process, if it's something you want to move forward with, and then give one of us a call. We've got phone numbers listed on there. We'd be happy to talk with you.

I think it went really well. So we had quite a bit of feedback on our new system, and it was all as good as it's been with the new XPR3s for the wheat harvest. And we're still – I'm actually right now in South Dakota where they're just getting into their spring wheat crop. So the winter wheat's done and harvested, and we're far enough north here from –