Combines drop floor check

[dairyman]

Is the G mentioned above running a spike or rasp barIJ Are l_M series machines as good a choice to use with spike in beans as the closed concave (K,F,G) machines with spikesIJ

 

[6100]

The above mentioned G is running a rasp bar. has a powerfold auger of a F2 on it. I can bouch for its speed it was cutting 50 bu wheat beans today beside my 2166 running 4.3 mph. This machins also has a 6 row corn head which was cutting (weighed out with scales) 220+ bu corn last year. and that was with a 350 gas on it.

 

[Quicksilver]

Just a stock G is a beast! I would love to own a G some day.

 

[KBomar]

Have run M3 Spike and A2 spike. Both would cut beans way longer than should after dew fell. Poor performance in 17%+ corn, good performance in dry corn. Wide spaced, high profile hardened rasp bars in G. Channel concave bars in 1-3-5 and rasp concaves in 2 and 4. May say over threshing but works great in all three crops. Teamed with a petterson airfoil chaffer and long finger chaffer extension.

 

[NDDan]

That is very posible and he is likly not imagining things. This is likely much more evident before tilting floors. If the feeder is starting the threshing prematurely it will likely cause poor flow in cylinder. I had conditions in edible beans and canola that we were better off running chains in the slower corn position. I had put on 8 super fast lTM pulleys over the years. While they would usually increase feeding capacity they will plug tighter. On the flip side if they are grinding up the straw it will decrease capacity. We have kind of made a 3 speed feeder when installing the lTM pulley. We do this by cutting mount bracket for side shield so belt tentioner can tighten up the belt when moving belt over to small groove in the front. This basically gets you back to the standard fast speed used since '93. All machines I had put the lTM pulley on and we lowered the floors in are running on this standard speed with absolutely no premature plugging. I don't think I had kit out when Kbomar did his floor. I'm curious if he just tilted floors or did he remove the hump under tention drum alsoIJ Also did he smoothen square corners in front feed as well as fill area in ahead of square tubingIJ Thanks and catch you later.

 

[KBomar]

Before your kit and could not find press to take out hump. Felt we had to just put in as was. Did grind square corners some and droped front feed floor with ACGO replacement as you advised us to. On high side would plug feeder if cuttting over 3 mph. Would have to reverse everything completely out of feeder to get to start back (grrrr.) Material would be ground all to pieces. and 50% threshed. On low side cut for a day without plugging feeder housing which is a miricale considering the extra double crop material going in with green stem beans. This was cutting 4.5+ mph and wife driving.

 

[NDDan]

Talked to a couple different parties in Indiana within a day. They are having lots of trouble feeding in the straw condition they are now in. I wish they had floors tilted. They do not have feeders speeded up with lTM pulley but at least one of the guys tried to run on corn speed. Didn't help or hurt to run on corn speed. I have a private guy out west of me a hundred miles and he used factory replacement floor with hump when he tilts the floors down. Although he does go to machine shop first to press a good deal of the hump out. In my kit I supply all the goodies to do complete job except the 1_4" thick replacement floor for rear of front feed. I include all the goodies for front feed which did improve our feeding dramatically prior to even tilting floors down. Anyway thanks for the great info. Keep in mind now with your lTM pulley installed and you find moving to corn speed is to slow you can use the same belt but move belt back to smaller rear pulley. That is where you will have to cut shield bracket so belt won't get into it. Thanks again