Combines Pod shells in the beans

Dear Pat: Concave wear definately effect your problem. I have been in the concave rebuilding business for 28 years aand have helped alot of guys. The square edges on your concave bars restrict the flow of grain and cause material to rub on material. This is thrashing. The rounder the concave bars are, the less restricted flow you have and you do two things to improve this. One is to set your concaves tighter and the other is to run your rotor faster, both of which takeaway from an clean sample and will increse cracking. The life of a concave is 1500 hours. They get progressive worse after that. I will rebuild 80 series concaves for $798.00 less 15% if done before 4_1_05. 60 serries concaves are $675.00 less 15% by 4_01_05. Give me a call, as I have some other tips. You will have a cleaner sample. Your hard surfaced concave will be guaranteed for 3000 hours. Give me a call and ask for Don. 1-800-235-4461

Don is right. Pods in the sample are always a thrashing problem if there are beans in the pod. If there are pods with no beans, then it could be not enough air. I have found that cover plates and air foil chaffer gave me as clean a sample as can be expected with a combine designed for high capacity and mainly corn. Good luck!

I can vouch for Don. He does excellent work. had my elephant ears rebuilt by him last year and they worked great this year. This winter, I took my concaves and a few rasp bars up to him. I didn't realize how worn out my concaves were untill I saw my rebuilt ones. Can't wait to get them in the field

DON where are you locatedIJ i'm in south central iowa.

My name is Don Estes. I own and opperate Estes Mfg. Co. in Flanagan Il. 61740 My Phone is 800-235-4461 We rebuild all types of concaves and bars for all machines and have for 27 yeas. We also are the designer of The Disrupter, usually used in Case-IH machines but we also have them for the JD STS. Thanks, Call me ant time. My cell n 1-815-822-2283