Combines Kept my 480 on a buyback after lease expired not second guessing

How many hours on your 480IJ

What do you mean by preporation pan sealIJ On your stainless steel update; where did you put stainless steelIJ Have you replaced your bottom clean grain elevator bootIJ If so, did you just go back with factory partsIJ Do you have an email addressIJ I have a 485 and would like to speak with you on some of your experiences. Thanks!

if you are wearing out your clean grain heads, elevator boots, or doors. next time you take them off to replace them take the new one to your local body shop and have them shoot a thick layer of rhino lining on them. we have had great success in Nebraska eliminating the excessive wear that we were seeing occur. you may have to do a little trimming with a dye grinder to customize the fit, but it is the best and cheapest fix we found

use rice parts on the grain handling they are stainless steel better wear

Preporation pan is located directly under aps and threshing cylinder.Grain also slides down slanted return pan under rotors on to the preporation pan then shakes back to chaffer.It is impossible to replace seals on preporation pan without pulling the whole pan out.The seals run along each side of pan next to inside wall of combine.You can easily see them by looking from rear of combine over chaffer.Or go down engine compartment door and slide down the super slide return pan and you can see preporation pan but watchout for the gagged seperation dividers on pan because it is like a torture chamber down there when temps are soaring over 100 I tried and did replace part of seal without pulling pan but could not reach under threshing cylinder and aps left a little corn sprinkling out under threshing cylinder.Holt replaced clean grain elevator bottom and boot and door.This was done by Holt as factory update they dont tell you about unless there is a problem.After using JB WElD as a lifesaver to buy me time until after harvest.They did the update with a different material (stainless Steele)Caterpillars excuse was that U.S. corn is more abrasive than European CORN and in europe they mostly grow cereal grains.HOlT was very good about doing updates.

I only have about 800 engine hours as I have also been using my R70 with it the last three years to harvest my crop ,but will be only using the 480 in the future.I am comfortable now that it is up to the task of replacing both my R70 and R7.

i find that very hard to belive that the 480 will out do two class 7 machines. It can't be done. I demoed 480r this harvest and it was not out doing my r72. We were both using 42 foot hb on the front, and who ever left the grain truck kept the lead till the next round. We were both doing 4.3 mph with the machines loses were a little high on the cat, but other wise both machines were very together. Grimreeper

A 480 will about 10percent less than my R70 and R7 combined would do R72 has added hp but not extra prossesor area.I still think a 480 would do 75 percent of 2 R72s combined in corn.But not in wheat because the Gleaners do not max out in wheat as fast

NO way, you are saying that a 480 will do 75% more in corn then two R72's. The corn i was doing this fall was running around 215 bu_a. My machine was doing 14 a_hr for a total of 3010 bushels times that by two for my two machines that is 6020. Now you are saying that 75% of my two machines you could do with one. that would be 4515 bu or 21 ac_hr. No way. I had two 1100 bu grain carts as well as two super bee's. I was only hauling a mile for the fast turn around so my machines were not sitting. I was running 12 row on 30 and my speed was just around 6.8 - 7.2, and keeping it in the machine. So how fast are you moving to get 21 ac_hr and where you saving it all.

Read again! What he is trying to say is that one 480 is equal to 75% of two R72's or R75's, not 75% more than two (e.g. it would take 1.25 lexion 480's to equal two R72's or R75's).