RVS Rice Special

Harvesting rice presents a unique set of challenges, high moisture, high yields and tough separation conditions. The RVS Rice Special stripper header's unique design helps rice producers gain better returns by improving harvesting performance.

The RVS's 8 rows of stainless steel fingers simply strip the grain from the head, eliminating the need for the combine to separate grain from tough green rice straw. The amount of straw entering the combine is significantly reduced decreasing wear and tear to the combine in addition to decreasing fuel usage per acre.

RVS Benefits

• Operator can change the rotor speed from the cab to adjust for variable field conditions
• A cab mounted monitor is included that indicates the load on both the rotor and auger
• Facilitates quick rotor speed changes between different varieties.

RVS Drive System

• Speed range: 440rpm to 770rpm
• Speed increments: 1rpm
• Speed change facility: electrical switch in cab
• Belt type: single vee belt
• Tensioning system: posi-torque spring and cam self tensioning system

A monitor is fitted in the combine cab which allows the operator to adjust and display the rotor and auger speed.  The monitor has inbuilt alarms to notify the operator of problems, this is critical when harvesting in particularly tough conditions.

  RVS Rice Special Features:

• Spring stainless steel flange tipped fingers give increased wear resistance as well as providing a more selective stripping action by stripping more rice and less flag leaf at a lower rotor speed.
• Stainless steel crop deflector for improved wear resistance
• Stainless steel floor for better feeding and improved wear resistance
• Direct feed auger trough allows the crop to be fed direct into the deeper flighted auger to give maximum performance in down rice with a minimum number of moving parts
• Variable speed belt drive enables the rotor speed to be changed using a cab mounted switch
• Poly coated skids for muddy conditions
• Hardened auger flighting and retractable fingers for improved wear resistance
• Adaptor plate design allows external header pitch adjustment

General Product Applications and Benefits

The benefits of using a stripper header in rice are pure capacity. It is quite normal to increase a combines capacity by 50 to 100%. This is achieved by decreasing straw intake into the combine and generally making the combines job easier.

Harvesting lodged rice in Mississippi, USA

Productivity increases of over 100% can be achieved when harvesting in adverse conditions such as down rice. Better milling grades are very common due to less aggressive settings on the combines threshing systems because the header is doing the bulk of the threshing. Fuel consumption per acre usually falls by 25%. The net result is that you put more of a better quality rice into the bin in less time putting fewer hours on the combine.