• Stripper Header

Case-IH 16/21/23/25/50/60/70 Series Combine Settings

   Wheat
(10-30 bu/ac)
Wheat
(30-50 bu/ac) 
Wheat
(>50 bu/ac) 
Rice 
Auger Fingers   16 16  16  16 
 Feeder Chain Position  Middle Up  Up  Up 
 Front Dust Flap  Removed Removed  Removed  Removed 
 1st Concave  Small wire with int bar Small wire with int bar  Small wire  Large wire (every 2nd removed) 
 2nd Concave  Small wire Small wire  Small wire  Large wire (every 2nd removed) 
 3rd Concave  Small wire Small wire  Large wire  Large wire (every 2nd removed) 
 Grate Type  Keystock Keystock  Keystock  Shelbourne 
 Front Rotor Threshing Bars  Rasp Rasp  Rasp  Rasp 
 Rear Rotor Threshing Bars  Rasp Rasp  Rasp  Spike 
 Concave Position  Centered & Closed Centered & Closed  Centered & Closed  Centered & Closed 
 Header Rotor Speed (rpm)  550-650 550-650  450-650  430-500 
 Header Auger Speed (rpm)  185 185  185  185 
 Combine Rotor Speed (rpm)  650 600  550  500 
 Cleaning Fan (rpm)  1100  1250  1300 1300 
 Top Chaffer Position  60% open 60% open   70% open 80% open 
 Bottom Sieve Position  30% open 30% open  40% open  100% open 
Case-IH Trouble Shooting

The most critical aspect of setting up a Case-IH axle flow combine and Stripper Header is ensuring that an even load of material is maintained across the full width of the sieve from the rotor and that the material is split evenly between the rotor and sieves for separation. The direction of the rotor naturally tends to load the left side of the sieve, this then leads to losses on the left side and under-utilisation of the right side of the machine. In order to create an equal loading the concaves must be centralised on the rotor, then it may be necessary, particularly in rice to fit a second paddle to the left side shoe feed auger.

The combine is not feeding smoothly
Ensure that the distance between the header auger and feeder chain is minimised using the adaptor plate tilt adjustment.

Combine rotor loss is experienced
Raise concaves to ensure grain is forced through, adjust rotor speed & check grain loss monitor. It may become necessary to retard the veins above the rear section of the rotor.

Combine sieve loss is experienced
Generally opening up the sieves more and increasing the fan speed will give greater sieve capacity, ensure that the balance is correct of splitting the load between the sieves and rotor, it may be that the rotor is way under capacity yet you are overloading the sieves. In this case it will be necessary to fit more blanking plates
or interuptor bars in the rotor to prevent such a high proportion of material falling onto the sieves.

Unthreshed heads appear in grain sample
In this case it will be necessary to either close the concave a little to provide better threshing or fit additional blanking plates or interuptor bars. In particularly tough threshing varieties it might be beneficial to close the bottom sieve and run these unthreshed heads through the combines return system.