Combines looking for Colin R72

Hope every one and a good and safe new year. Ok first thing first the rad is the same size as the old one, but there is more cooling tubes and fins in the rad as compared to the old one. The feeder house issue we smoothed every thing out(meaning no bolt heads to catch on)If there was some thing that wold cause bunshing, or snagging in the feeder it was retrofitted to make a nice sleek clean passage. Dad and my self even did one machine with sheets of that white puck board this helps the crop mass to flow.We are running two machines with gleaner feeder slats and one with a force feed system that have been notched a little more to grab the crop as it flows. Yes we take in double swathes. We do barley and flax in two 30 foot swathes, if we don't straight cut.Guys don't understand how we can get 42 feet or 60 feet up that feeder house, and do the job we do. Colin

Thanks again and to all a happy new year. Sounds to me you installed a radiator core similiar to what Gleaner used for a bit I believe in '98. Some guys switched them back out to straight threw flow to allow them to stay clean easier. We just tuned up rotary screen area to keep the junk out for that radiator could surely exchange more heat. I'm with you on removing the corners ect in feeder for that helps plenty. You've likely read on what we started doing in transition area between the chains to allow more flow. Posi-feed tention drum surely helps also. Next year we will have some machines with all of the above so we'll see if we can plug them. I was wondering too how you got all that material in to use them ponies but it's sounding like you have it well under control. You can't believe how many times I've been told that the feeder is maxed out. Well I guess they are right the way they sent them to use. Thanks again

The rad core we are using is very simalar to cat uses in the loaders. Bigger tubes and more fins and it is in a staright line as well so the bigger chuncks of chaff can pass right though. What are you doing between the two chains, What is a posi feed drum. I think shoving 60 feet of 75 bushel barley has got the feeder maxed out. You should try cutting 42 feet of canola that is fun. Colin

OK I get the picture. The one Gleaner tried seemed to have more tubes that were steigered and it could plug easier but likely could displace more heat when clean. To keep radiators cleaner longer we brought the clearance of saw tooth blades on rotary screen very close all the way around. Gleaner uses wider blades now which should help but still helps to fill in larger gap that may be present with 1_8" X 1 1_4" adhesive back foam or equivalant. Also adjusting plates inside screen to minumum clearance to reduce vacuum where material need to sling off. We also hung apron down to prevent air from under engine from swirling the material under rotary screen. We also hung apron down from front of stripper on outside of rotary screen to prevent material that got spun off of screen from getting back on. Preventing material from getting back on greatly reduces the chance of getting sucked by the saw tooth blades. Newer machines also have that stripper lengthened. For feeder we tilted the rear 30" of front feed floor 3_4" at very rear and front 30" of rear feed 1". This is not all that hard to do and if you got in there and did some measureing with chains in and then straight edge with chains out you would see what we are accomplishing. There are a couple out there with the hump under rear tention drum flatened out and they seem to be working better yet. The posi-feed drum was designed by an Australian for CaseIH combines. They built some protos for Gleaners which are working well and loewen Mfg are building them for them now. Them feed chain tention drums are triangle shaped and act like a beater. We run proto drum in rear position and they worked well but not the hole answer. The floor trick seemed to help as much or more than all the stuff we have done. Worthy of looking into espesially for your high output machines. Once you got her all streamlined like this you could install the lTM pulley to speed up chains another approx 20%. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

Could you ever drop me a note with email address and or phone number. I'd like to talk to you or at least find out where your from. Thanks a bunch. Dan