Joey, I have a 12-30 hugger and I would agree with you on the oil bath. I think it is overrated and put on this head because the green ones has the "oilbath" .Personally I would perfer that it was open where I could check the tension and oil it daily like you mentioned. IllINOIS GlEANER
This brings up an interesting subject. This fall we bought our second hugger head and it had to be moved out to fit our row spacing. To be sure we didn't bind any gearboxes we removed the covers to slide the shafts back and forth. The covers didn't survive the removal process very well(all the silicone didn't help any). It would seem to me that either the covers should be made heavier or a gasket avialable. Just my 2 cents
2 questions please: 1) Will EP O grease mix with the factory stuffIJ 2) Do you apply it with a pressure gunIJ By the way, I like the chain greasing setup on my Hugger. So far, I check the oil level every couple of years and do nothing else to the chains. Thanks Tom in MN
tbran,i was thinking of leaving the covers in place , but having no oil in them.the plug in the top of the cover is directly over the chain , so instead of oil bath , simply oiling them daily.....thanks...........joey
I wouldn't do away with the oil bath! I took both baths off of ours this year to install larger drive sprockets and was very impressed with how the chains and sprockets have been wearing. It was the first time we had ever taken those off since we bought the head in '93. Our 8 row head has harvested well over 12,000 acres of corn and you could put the old sprockets next to new ones and hardly tell the difference between them. Same goes for the chains. I guess I was lucky but the bath tins went back on easy...not as much as a drip from them all season. Amazing how long stuff can last when kept out of the dirt. Brian