Combines Air Deflector Results

Which machine were you runningIJ Which type of sieves, short or long shoe, crossflow fanIJ Do you have a chaff spreaderIJ Just curious if it works for all combinations. Thanks, Mike

What part of Ontario are you fromIJ I live near london. Do you feel the deflector is worth the $600+. It semms like alot for a piece of sheet metal or is there more to it than the picture shows. Email me your phone number if you like I would like to talk more about it but I type way to slow. Thanks

I live 30 miles south of Ottawa 18 miles from the St. lawrence.Yes it has special bends but does the job! email to follow. Dave

Mike,

Dave, Thanks for the info. You are the first 2144 size machine I have heard of. Sounds like it must pretty well work across all sizes. I'm a little surprised you could get wheat threshed with the corn concaves. You should really consider the cover plates. They will make your concaves work for all crops. Take care, Mike

Mike,

That makes sense. I'm impressed with how clean we can get the grain sample now. When you don't have to worry about overloading the return you can pinch down on the lower seive with the air cranked up and keep nearly all the MOG out of the tank. Should help minimize bugs in the bins this winter. Mike

I am not following every one on pluging the return. Not very famillar with CaseIH but thinking about one. If you plug the return where does the grain go that you pinched off by tightening the seivesIJ

What we are referring to is overloading the return elevator to the point that the slip clutch slips. You have to stop the machine and open a door on the bottom of the elevator to get rid of about a bushel or two of material before the elevator will start turning again. You eventually get so good at it that you can stop the machine, kick the seperator clutch out, run around to the elevator and open the door way before the machine stops turning over. When it stops, you shut the door and go again. It's a treat, let me tell you. All material that makes it through the upper seive (the chaffer) must go either into the clean grain elevator (by going through the lower seive) or it must go through the return elevator (by riding over the lower seive). The more you close the lower seive, the cleaner the sample, but the more you run through the return elevator. The trick is to keep the MOG (material other than grain) suspended on a layer of air above the chaffer seive so that it never makes it to the lower seive to cause problems.

Have you guys ever thought about trying a cross flow fan.