Element Design

A fully rifled element has raised diagonal ribs extending continuously across the working surface. These ribs maintain consistent contact with crop material as it moves through the threshing section.

Element Design

An interrupter-style element combines a rifled working surface with a raised cross-member. The diagonal ribs terminate against this bar rather than continuing across the full working face.

Operating Characteristics

• Provides continuous threshing action across the working surface.
• Promotes steady crop movement through the rotor.
• Maintains consistent contact with the crop mat.
• Can improve separation in tough or difficult-to-thresh crops.
• May help reduce crop slippage in green or damp conditions.
• Supports higher throughput where additional threshing action is required.

Operating Characteristics

• Interrupts crop movement across the rifled surface.
• Creates an additional change in crop direction at the cross-member.
• Produces a more concentrated point of crop disturbance.
• Can help break apart dense or matted crop material.
• May increase threshing action at a selected position within the rotor.
• Provides a different crop-handling effect from a continuously rifled element.

Typical Applications (Guide Only)

The following crop types are general recommendations only. Actual performance will vary according to crop and machine conditions.

• Wheat
• Barley
• Oats
• Corn or maize
• Sorghum
• General cereal and grain crops
• Rice where the correct rice-specific configuration is fitted

Typical Applications (Guide Only)

The following crop types are general recommendations only. Actual performance will vary according to crop and machine conditions.

• Tough or high-yield wheat
• Durum and other hard-to-thresh cereals
• Canola
• Green-stem soybeans
• High-moisture corn or maize
• Rice in damp or difficult harvesting conditions
• Crops producing dense or matted straw

Potential Advantages

• Consistent threshing action across the full working face.
• Good general-purpose crop movement.
• Suitable for a broad range of cereal and grain crops.
• Can assist rotor feeding in green or damp material.

Potential Advantages

• Creates additional crop disturbance at the cross-member.
• Can help open dense crop mats.
• May improve threshing where crop is passing through too smoothly.
• Can be used strategically as part of a mixed element configuration.

Potential Limitations

• More aggressive threshing may increase grain damage in fragile crops.
• Can create additional broken straw and fines.
• May increase load on the cleaning system if settings are too aggressive.

Potential Limitations

• Additional crop disturbance may increase straw break-up.
• Can increase fines or grain damage if incorrectly applied.
• May not be required where crop flow and separation are already satisfactory.