Combines flag straw in engin bay

Do you have the twin spreadersIJ. Is the rubber curtain in front of the spreaders still in good condition. We found that the twin spreaders seem to be able to toss straw up into the engine bay. The air cooled motor seemed to be a little worse for being dirty in the engine bay after a day's work.

only one spreader. rubber curtain in very good nick has been replaced by 16g gal steel air cooled is very clean inside motor outside not so will not get wind tunnel around motor as with water cooled motor

We found that the R72 with the twin spreaders (watercooled) always has some straw in the engine bay of a morning, it seems worse when the spreaders are on high. The air cooled motor in the same paddock would not have the same amount of straw but there would be a lot of dust in the engine bay none the less. It seemed to take the same amount of time to service either motor of the morning, blowing out the radiator versus the cooling fins

Only time I have seen anything build up that high was back when R62s first come out. The rivets under engine that hold panel down were loose allowing material from shoe to get blasted into engine compartment. I found it by putting in some ear plugs and riding back there for a bit. The material come out at such a rate that area around hydralic tank all the way to alternator would heap up. We got floor resecured and sealed up and everything fine since. Good luck. Can you convert the bags to bushels, just kidding.

I am not kidding , how does it convert; he unashamedly ask.

Sorry silver tin tank,I reread your post and there has never been that level of straw in our engine bays. I missed the two feet bit the first time. T-bran, Dan one of our bags equals three wheat bushels. Please don't start asking about weights , that is why we are metric

if it's the same as for white beans they talk in terms of bags as well..with a bag being 100 lbs.

spot on Dan the rivets under engine were all missing all but one that is have full days work, the only thing thats in the engine bay is powder dust and lots of hot air The only way to see is to get in the back under engine and look up Would like to invite Dan to start a gleaner dealership here in Australia Currently 28c to 40c sorry 82.4f to 104f temp in the wimmera Here's hoping the local dealer reeds this By the way 3 bushels to the bag at 60 lbs per bushels Dad tells me that they use to have 4 bushel bags in 30s or 40 s thats 4 times 60 ooooooww sore back So with thanks from the tin tank

I am sure glad that nobody is still using "cubits" { i.e distance from end of elbow to finger tip of the current Big Boss. } as their basic measuring system! 1 bag = 3 bushels. About 12 bags to the ton. 1 bushel = volume of 1. 244 cubic feet [ Winchester or U.S bushel. The British imperial bushel is a cat's whisker larger! ] 1 bushel = Approx. 60 lbs of wheat. Prior to Metrication in Oz,[ 1960's ] the bushel weight in pounds was set by collecting all the season's running samples taken at each silo delivery point in Oz, mixing them thoroughly, and taking a sample which was weighed to find the Australian bushel weight in pounds per bushel, [ remember the bushel is a volume measurement, not a weight measurement. ] We were then paid on a per bushel basis. It was called the" Fair Average Quality" standard, shortened to F.A.Q. and often mispronounced when you did not get as much as expected! British Imperial ton originally used in Oz = 2240 lbs Metric tonne, now used = 1000 Kilograms =2204 lbs Imperial short ton or American ton = 2000 lbs Imperial c.w.t = 112 lbs . i.e. 20 cwt per ton. 1 cubic metre = 1000 liters or 35.315 cubic feet or 264.17 US gallons or 219.97 Imp. gallons. 1 cubic meter of water at 4' degrees C = 1 tonne or 1000 kilograms. 1 litre of water weighs 1 Kilogram. And the above is for starters! I hope you can make sense of my ramblings! Now that we have gone Metric in everything, except in imported American equipment, the old system seems crazy and we would not go back. The world is metric and the Americans are the odd man out and will eventually have to change.