Combines 750 feederhouse paddles

[geekyfarmer]

It's been a few days since I had to deal with paddles, but I seem to remember that there is a designated front and back to them. (I may not say this right, so bear with me!) If you look at the side of the paddle, so that you can see the rubber plies seperated by the fabric plies, the rubber ply on the front of the paddle is thicker than the rubber on the back of the paddle. If you put the paddle on backwards, the thin rubber can't keep it from folding over. If it is on correctly, the thick rubber keeps the paddle from bending. If the paddle has been run backwards long enough, it could have torn some of the fabric plies and taken most of the strength out of it. Also, it helps to put the inside angle iron in the press and take a little of the angle out of it. Just makes it grip the rubber a little tighter. Good luck!

 

[ski_whiz]

This happens mostly on the front two sets of paddles. I have seen one once with bolts installed between the factory bolt locations. They had just drilled straight through and installed 1_4 inch bolts, It seemed to work remarkably well. Geekyfarmer is correct in his post regarding rubber direction, the cords are to be on the rear of the paddle like a backing. Torque bolts to 25 ft_lbs only and use the MF supplied paddles. I used some from louwen last year and they hardly lasted a season. Definitely make sure all paddle hardware is straight and pinching the blades correctly.

 

[hv_user]

I put four paddels on each shaft so alfalfa seed would not wrap.The paddles will last a long time,it will feed like never before and NOTHING will wrap on the shafts.Silver cab machines have the blocks drilled for the extra paddels older machines need new blocks.I did it when I had my 750 and 760 and its the difference between night and day.