Combines 1010 feeding problems

Is your auger adjusted properlyIJ Check clearance under and behind auger. I don't understand having to run reel low to clear cutterbarIJIJIJIJIJIJ

oh, duh! gees, I'm asleep this morning. you might also check that reel speed is fast enough to bat crop slightly.

I have the auger clearance set wider than recommended at the back. I thought by moving the auger further ahead it might grab the cut grain off the cutter bar better but it did not seem to help. Clearance at the bottom is about a finger's thickness. Probably not an issue since the grain seems to move fine once it actually gets to the auger. Increasing reel speed did help a little but also caused more throwback over the top of the table.

Do you have the pickup reel or a bat reelIJ When you are in standing wheat, if you lower the header and cut off about 18" of stalk, does it feed okIJ I would try that with the reel set somewhat rearward and the speed slightly faster than the ground speed to give the crop a little bump into the auger. As you get things polished up it may start working better and you may then be able to take less stalk.

We had a similar problem with our 25' 1010 when we got it two years ago. In addition to the reel position and speed mentioned here, you could try this. We spent 30 minutes on the cutter bar and front of the header (Auger to cutterbar) with a 90 degree grinder_wire-brush attachment, and things improved dramatically. Then after it finished cleaning up from the wear of cutting it cut perfectly.

I have the bat reel. I might just try shining up the right side of the table behind the cutter bar as Chuck suggested. It seems to be consistently worse on that side for some reason. Part of the problem is the huge variability in crop height and lean. If the crop leans into the cutter bar it works a little better but the opposite direction makes it very hard to cut all the crop without missing even when I cut the speed back. I know this combine can handle way more than 2.7 mph on 22 feet of this crop. But these lumps coming in off the cutterbar have plugged the feeder house more times than I have ever seen happen before.

I agree with your plan. I can't remember the last time we ran a bat reel, maybe in the '70'sIJ We just keep the finger reel on all the time. If you could lay your hands on one of them, you could put the hose mod on and lower the reel until the teeth scrape the hose. That will provide positive feed for most standing crops and probably eliminate your feederhouse plugging. Unfortunately, I can't think of a way to do the same thing with a bat reel.

What is the "hose mod"IJ I used to run an 1859 straight header (bat reel) on a Massey 510 and 550. Similar in design to the IH 1010 header but it never had significant feeding problems that I can recall. The 1015 pickup header works well on the IH but this 1010 is not performing.

Don't know if this will help but is the flighting on your auger rounded off. If you grind it flat so it has a sharp edge it will really grab straw. This worked on my 1020 head for soybeans. Never havested wheat.

The "hose mod" is something that the Gleaner guys started, but it works great on a 1020 header. I think the common way to do it is 3" vacuum hose mounted with 4" conduit clamps. Our 1010 feeds wheat much better than our 1020 because the cutterbar is a lot closer to the auger on the 1010. We use the hose mod in short beans, or any other beans for that matter, to let the reel toss them into the auger. It's really a cheap way to improve performance with a pickup reel.