K-2 in soybeans

I have the first year K2 short-back, what was the advantage of the long back? Mine does not like 45bpa beans (pioneer 95m82) at all, sounds like a wood chipper. Anything that I can do to increase speed. I'm in 1st, all the way back on speed control and riding the clutch!!!!!!

12ft with love bar conversion, electric header height control

I was just going to post the same thing wheatbreeder!! That lil girl should have no problem in those beans when set up right. Ryan

I have 2 Ks,1 takes beans in high low,the other won't hardly take them in low low.Never compared them to see what the difference is.

Exactly what dipstick said.  Lower that cylinder to pull them beans through.  Also a little more speed may help also, just so you don't crack the beans.  Our F2 will cruise through 60-70 bushel beans with a 315 flex head on the front.

my "k" went thru 50 bu beans just fine with a 13 ft header...i don't recall what the cyl was set at tho!

Make sure you level the cylinder. Also make sure the concave strips are in good shape. Alot of times the door will have rock damage and will deform the concave when installing a new one. To get away from that , bolt the outside down first but not hard enough to deform it. Use a straight edge to make sure the concave is straight across. Then use shim washers on the holes where the door is deformed. Shim washers from your cutterbar hold down clips work nicely. I did not mention to clean the concave area with a wire brush, but make sure it is clean. After shimming and getting the new concave strip true, fill the cavities between the door and new concave with auto body filler. I use Tiger Hair, it has fiberglass strands in it and when set is pretty well indestuctible. You may need to do this on your second concave too. If you really want to bring this girl alive you need to install a set of Trimpe cylinder bars. Every other tooth is removed and the remaining teeth are tungsten coated. Trimpe is a small family ran business in Seymore Indiana. They will trade your cylinder bars for their reworked ones. And UPS rite to your door. If you do this to your K2, make sure the chopper knives are in really good shape. The little girl will have an appetite like a F2. Your cylinder clearance is way to loose, I'm running 1/4 and not cracking beans.

Trimpe bars are re-worked original bars, every other tooth cut out and built up with Tungsten, they are very aggressive when new, and will increase with age. After many hours, the weld looks like sandpaper(sorta) and will work even better. I had them in my CII, 8600 White, 815 IH, and finally in my LII. They work!!!!!! Eshelman if I remember right are cast bars and can break in rocky situations. Either way, they are the CHEAPEST way to increase your combine to the NEXT bigger machine!!!!  Looks, as has been said are very deceiving, and as Butch said I would guess your bars are worn out, and when combined with a wide setting will allow the material to "slip" in the threshing process! I think K's have an open concave like the bigger machines, and if so 90% of threshing happens at the first concave bar! If the crop is NOT pulled through quickly, the cylinder has time to "CHEW" on the material cracking and grinding the grain. Also the beater behind the cylinder needs to be running fast enough to throw the trash back and get it out of the way so it wont have time to be pulled back into the cylinder for another trip!  With my LII I was instructed to take either 5/16 or 3/8 ths inch bolts and place one at each end of the cylinder/concave interface, drop the cylinder til it just touched, tighten the retaining bolts and leave it alone. I could run 21' of tough beans at 5 to 6.2mph (max on the hydro,depending on how dizzy I got watching all that mass go through the feeder beater) and relax in the seat, knowing I was making time!  Good luck!!!

Thanks, fellas. Got a new set of rasp bars ordered today from Oakly Combine. We will see what happens.

Sounds good Dipstick, thanks, I'm copying your remedy for future use. Feeding green stem soybeans is my biggest headache even more so than the political page.  

Thanks for the help, all. We re3adjusted the cylinder like you said with bolts and I was trying to combine with over an inch clearance. Forrest said to install the aggressive bars and set them to 1/2". We are going to give it a try. She sure eats beans now , even without the aggressive bars.