Farming Video | Temple Rhodes Breaks Down Conventional vs. Hybrid Rotors on CLAAS Lexion

29 Nov 25 • 1m 53s

Temple Rhodes takes us out in the field to break down the real-world difference between conventional and hybrid rotor systems during soybean harvest. Using a CLAAS Lexion combine, he shows how each system handles straw and stubble—especially when you're big baling for cattle. The hybrid rotor leaves behind better-quality straw and more consistent separation, but as Temple shows, there's also more bean loss hitting the ground. If you're running 40-foot heads, that adds up fast.

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00:00:00 Let's talk about the differences of a, you know, a conventional style rotor and what I would consider a hybrid rotor style system. 00:00:08 So this is conventional style rotor. This is actually, we're we're big bale and soybean stubble. We big bale it for, you know, the cattle. 00:00:17 But look how fine the conventional rotor, you know, kind of chops this up. 00:00:24 Now, let's go look at this side. Um, this is a cloth lexion combine and look at the difference in the, the quality of straw. 00:00:33 Well, this is stubble, but it's big difference in quality. When you talk about, you know, bailing for, 00:00:41 you know, straw or whatever. It's a big difference here. I like it a little bit better like this. 00:00:46 I can pick it up better. It does a better job. But not only that, if you peel this back and you look underneath of it, yeah, 00:00:53 there's a few beans here, but it's to be expected. Some of it could be from header loss, but some of it is from actually coming out 00:01:02 that separation chamber. The difference between the two is with the conventional style, you know, you end up getting 00:01:10 a lot less separation. And the conventional, with the hybrid style, there's so much more threshing and so much more separation. 00:01:20 You know what I mean? But look how fine this is. Now look underneath, there's a ton of beans in here that's all over the ground. 00:01:32 And you know, these are 40 foot heads that are on these combines. And when you look at the amount 00:01:38 of beans on the ground, it's fair. There's a, it's a fair amount of difference between, you know, the conventional style rotor 38 00:01:45.345 --> 00:01:48.325

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