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Ray Stueckle's Combine Harvesting Books

Combine Settings For Better Harvesting. ($16.50 ppd.) SOLD OUT For conventional combines. Explains in detail the proper adjustments and settings to obtain maximum performance from your combine. Setting Your Rotary For Better Harvesting. ($12.00 ppd.) Very Limited Supply How to make a rotor feed properly, how to make it thresh, how to prevent grain loss over the rotor, how to stop shoe loss, and how to increase capacity. Dear Ray, This is my problem. . . ($30.00 ppd.) Price Reduced to $25.00 Composed of letters received over a period of years from farmers on several continents. Filled with Ray's solutions to a wide variety of harvesting problems in all popular models of combines. Readers Comments "We modified one combine according to the recommendation of Ray Stueckle and found vast improvements in yield and quality with minimum loss. We have decided to 'Stuecklize' every combine before going into the field." Joe Figliuzzi, Kelliher, Minn. "This year, I 'Stuecklized' my combine. No more part heads, no more straw, no more cracks, and no more leaving one-third in the heads. The increase in capacity was tremendous - at least fifty percent." Reg Sjodin, Whitewood, Sask.

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Combine Settings for Better Harvesting

His publication, COMBINE SETTINGS FOR BETTER HARVESTING, contains information on combine models through 1985, but applicable to later models. Explained in detail are the proper adjustments and settings to obtain maximum performance from your combine, or as Ernest Koller put it, "to get the most from what you have." Ray's unique knowledge of combine performance came from years of painstaking work in the field with many different types of combines in a great variety of crops. Because of his farming background, his main interest was to save the farmer money in his harvesting operations. His theories have been proven again and again. Grateful farmers have told us that they have saved many times the cost of the book in one day of harvesting. "I have read Ray Stueckle's book on Settings for Better harvesting. Obviously every combine owner and operator can well afford to study these modifications and suggestions in order to determine which ones will permit the most profitable performances under the many different combinations of harvesting conditions both within and among fields and crops." O.A. Vogel ARS, USDA Research Agronomist, Retired and Professor Emeritus, Washington State University "The American Farmer has become one of the world's most respected producers of grain crops for human food. Public and private research, improved machinery, better tillage and farming practices, new crop varieties, more efficient storage and transportation have all played their parts. Ray Stueckle's Book COMBINE SETTINGS FOR BETTER HARVESTING, has also contributed many millions of bushels to that food supply and many, many dollars of extra income to the individual farmer. We have followed Ray's recommendations for at least ten years on our own combines, and are certain there is no cheaper or better way to improve harvest efficiency, and to obtain top grades and maximum yields. Before Ray wrote this book, there was no single published source for such practical, proven information. A lifetime of learning and practical experience by an individual operator will not provide the wide variety of "know how" explained by Ray. I sincerely believe Combine Settings For Better harvesting is a "must" for America's combine operators. It's the best way I know to "get the most from what you have"! Ernst H. Koller Wheat rancher and President of Cheney Weeder, Inc. Spokane, Washington

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Setting your Rotary Combines for better harvesting

The book covers the subjects of how to make a rotor feed properly, how to make it thresh, how to prevent grain loss over the rotor, how to stop shoe loss, and how to increase capacity. One fact now evident is that normal wear has a much greater effect on the performance of rotors than it does on conventional combines. While a new rotary may do a very satisfactory job in crops for which it is adapted, its efficiency gradually decreases each year. When this happens, no amount of factory recommended adjustments will improve it. Ray tells you how to recognize this and what to do to correct it. Anyone who attended Ray's combine clinics knows that Ray looked at harvesting from a farmer's viewpoint and regarded any unnecessary loss in time, grain, or damaged kernels as coming directly out of the farmer's net profit. He believed that any changes made on the combine should be cost effective and repay the time and effort either in increased combine capacity, reduced grain loss, or improved quality of threshed seed.

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Dear Ray, This is my problem...

Ray Stueckle had a unique ability to "see" what was happening inside a combine and the "know-how" to correct whatever was not fucntioning properly. He shared his knowledge at hundreds of seminars known as "Combine Clinics" and in his books and magazine columns on combines which were read by thousands of famers in the U.S. and Canada. Farmers responded in very expressive ways... "Ray, you just saved me from putting a bullet through a fine old machine." "If Ray told me my combine would work better if I'd stand on my head in front of it, I would do it." "Those two old machines ran just like clockwork, and the grain was so clean it could go right into the drill." "Your ideas have made new machines out of the ones I own." "We would have to have ourselves declared insane if we ever went back to using unmodified combines."

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