Combines Questions from way back Ray Steukle s book

[tbran]

71151724 SPROCKET will speed up the clean grain conveyor and elevator. It is a 14-19 tooth. There will be no problem with the slide pan - unless it tis fractured or warped on your K - this is not the limiting factor. Most K_F2's have the bin loader auger worn out. This is important on capacity esp if you speed it up. We have drilled the std sprocket and bolted an 18 up to a 20 tooth sprocket on the F2's std 14-14 (the chain will line up with a little tweaking) when using a 630 corn head. Do not use this on wheat or soybeans as it will accelerate the wear big time when not loaded.

 

[Trent]

Thanks tbran. I just put new flighting on the bin loader auger last year. Also have plastic paddles on the elevator chain. I'll check the wear of the auger in the shoe also.

 

[R_O_M]

Stepped grain pans as you call them were standard in the cleaner shoes of Australian headers [ "combines" to Americans ] right until the Australian combine manufacturing industry was wiped out and in at least one case, deliberately closed down by American purchasers in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

 

[tbran]

yeah, but when your combine is upside down you need lots of little dittys to make them work'right'

 

[R_O_M]

Ah! Those were the days! We were all as fit as trout in those days! We had to be to keep dodging all the junk you guys pushed over the edge up there! And we had the pommy built Perkins to try and smoke you guys out up there and that didn't work either!

 

[tbran]

Thennnnnnnnnnnnnn, was it YOU that woke up Al GoreIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJ

 

[R_O_M]

He's all yours, Tbran! Spare your humble servants!, Please! Please! We've got more than enough world standard gutter class political ding-a-lings of our own without being responsible for anybody else's outstanding examples as well!