The front 7 or so are closed down tighter and there is a break in the arm with a small rod joining the two, but all controlled by the same adjuster. Thank You, Dave
Went from a 98 to a 2002 R-62,Chaffer is like that on the 2002,the front needs to be opened up.Agco says its like that to push the air back farther,good in theory but it doesn't work.Front needs open and the rear needs closed.
Please help me , why does it have to be like that and can that be achieved by lengthening that short rod to the front sectionIJ Why does there have to be a section at the back opening seperatelyIJ
You can lengthen or drill another hole so it all opens the same.The back does not have to be separate.In some conditions it works better that way.Most of the clean grain drops threw the front 1_3 of the chaffer.
Thank You. I will lengthen the rod or drill another hole, whichever gives me the closest to the desired length. What is proper the same as the rest of the sieve or slightly larger. Dave
Heard in '96 when long shoe showed up that they were haveing complaints of short straw in sample. Before we ran our first one we blanked off first open area on chaffer per tech van suggestion. With that long shoe they put a castle shaped deadner just ahead of chaffer to dampen air to first few openings of chaffer. When we had chaffer out we bent them pieces of iron parralel with chaffer and heard of others taking it out. In '96 the chaffer opened the same all the way threw. Gleaner sped up fan for more air and installed angle iron to help prevent any straw from entering first open area of chaffer in a campaign for early machines. We never had any problem with shoe before or after in our crops. I have heard of enough benifits to fine tuning the short shoe with a adjustable front to think I will do sometime if needed.
No I don't know it is necessary to take out for we never had any trouble and havn't heard of trouble anywhere lately. Just look at area just ahead of chaffer where air comes above sieve and you will see the air dam. You can bend up or remove or leave the way it is. Just don't know what is best in your case (maybe no difference once so ever).