Combines Any one have these problemsIJ

We just replaced the accelerator roll lugs on our 52 before we started this harvest season. The old lugs were wore more on the very ends than they were in the middle too. Puzzled me at the time, but I'm easily puzzled anyhow! Where was I nowIJ Oh, maybe it's normal since there are now two of us. The grain bin buckling sounds like maybe you bounced around that unloader when it was full of grain causing too much stress on the bin bottom causing it to buckleIJ Not accusing you of anything, but just brainstorming. When we tried harvesting an oak tree a year ago with our unloader, it caused some slight buckling of the hopper. Good luck!

Is that Oak tree fire wood yetIJ

Wagons too.

We just raplced the rolls on our 62. They were wore in the middle and just slight wear on the very ends. We are not totaly hyperized though.

Yea I kind of was figuring that it was the bouncing of a full auger, or that time I didn't get the auger away from the grain cart when we got to that terrace. There was an early post that some one was asking about putting a full auger down. Well I have to do it all the time, a lot of time I'm picking 200 bushel irrgated corn and it just doesn't dump fast enough. I should of mentioned that this combine is only 2 years old and showing this kindof wear on the accelerator rolls and I didn't even mention that they thought we should replace the flighting on the unloading auger. I got to figuring today that we have picked about 400,000 bushels of corn. 30,000 bushels of wheat, and 60,000 bushels of soybeans in the last 2 years. So I'm not surprised we have some stuff wore out, just wondering about the rest of you and where you are seeing the wear at.

I have not had wore or rubbed threw that area of bin on any R60,70,62,or 72's yet that I know of but have not many of them that busted up an unloader auger tube either. We have wore or rubbed that area on the earlier machines (l2's and R50's) where the augers are alot lower and caught the truck box alot more. Three things to limit wear there: Don't bump tube too hard too many times, don't let it sit wet from rain very long too many times, and extend flighting on the auger in bottom of tank to withing about 3_8" from the bushing support. Also be sure on that R72 that the flighting that is on the auger in the swing tube is extending beyond the end of pipe toward ujoint. I have saw that flighting where it has been bumped flush with the end of pipe and that increases the dead area between the augers. On the earlier machines that have wore or rubbed threw there we will raise the bushing support if needed to gain auger clearance. We will also place many rivets to hold floor down to the heavy support that is right under floor to prevent pushing crop under floor which should last for a very long time. The only time I have saw the floor under rear feed tention drum bent is from a solid object that was small enough to get by square tube in feeder housing but large enough to barely fit under rear tention drum. I've just started to see some of them rear feed floors wear thin which can cause them to bow easier or wear threw. The ones I saw wear thin had done a pile of dirty edible beans. I wouldn't call it premature wear threw but I do see that Gleaner has recently changed the material of floor to more wear resistant material. I'm sure that areas or crops will have a lot to do with how the accelerator rolls wear. A heavy return to reclean tailings will wear right side faster and alot of grinding at the seperator side will wear the left side. The less material you let threw the cage the better (hyperize). It's great to have a shoe that is somewhat forgiving of an absolute perfect feed from cylinder.

Thanks Dan, we will check that flighting at the u-joint to make sure it hasn't been bent back. Sure appriciate all the help

I think there is quite a few of us guilty of triing to hug trees with the onloading auger. Some times you just forget and sometimes it's just an oh sh*t I didn't realize how close I was. I never busted one off personally but I have busted the secondary support arm loose from the bin on a C2 Curt

No wearing problems under unload auger yet,but