Combines Help with pulling grate wires

I just pulled mine out of the seperator grate. I took the bushings and bolts clear out. Then on the back side I loosened the adjusting bolts down a ways and it tilted down,in the front. I have cut some beans with mine and you need to plug those holes that are left where the wires were,the stems seem to stick in them. Illinois Gleaner

OooohhIJIJ! Could that a serious performance problemIJ Thanks for help, Nick

If they start building up in there I think it would sooner or later bridge over.Then your cleaning capacity would be gone in a hurry. Agco offers a kit to fill these holes up. Its part n71371547-2. I started filling mine up with some plastic bolts but there are like 200 plus hole. I put about 30 in mine yesterday and they all stayed in so,I am going to keep putting them in. They are the bolts that hold corn signs to the post.I think they said the kit from Agco is 100 bucks. Illinois Gleaner

I don't know about cleaning capacity but sure cuts back on seperation, I ordered a plug kit and should be in tommorow. When the cage gets plugged,grain goes out the rotor......green stem beans the worst. Dry soys in which the stems break up don't plug the vacant wire holes like the green, tough stems. $100 investment in the will pay for itself the first hopper.

We are in the process of filling our wire holes with 1_4 x 3_4 in. bolts with two washers and a drop of loc-tite.Cost will be about $20.00 per concave.We've been running with the holes open and getting a lot of stems hanging.

thanks for the heads up.......I had never heard this before. This is alittle more than I want to get into this year. I'll need to plan for it next year. Thanks again aRRRgh