Combines rear feeder chain

Kurt,

I am running a 8025 head and it feeds very smoothly. I was working in downed wheat that had Touchdown on 2 weeks prior to combining ( baler followed the combine). The threshing job was excellent (no whitecaps) as this was a very hard thresh spring wheat! Kurt suggests taking out the stripper but that sounds like alot of work for 100 acres. On my previous combine ( axial flow) the stripper was necessary for all crops except maybe corn. TIA Dave

The stripper is not that hard to take out. We do not have them in our machines, do not do any corn. The stripper bar splits in half and it would be well worth the try to see if this helps.

Talked to Agco today and they said I only need it in severe corn harvesting conditions. For what they described I doubt I will ever need it so I will take it out and hang it up. Agco is the first company in 35 years in business that I find it is easy to get answers from. My frustration with my former brand of combine was that the problem had to go through the dealer and I would be lucky to get an answer in a week if ever. Dave

G'Day Dave Our crops down here are harvested dry! so what I say might only be as good as a skunk in the back shed!!!! But we have taken our front and rear stripper bar out and have never look back, that in wheat, barley, lentils, canola, linseed, canary seed, fenugreek which can be tough as nails to process. There have been a few bent arms that attach to the rear feed drum that's there to keep the chain tight, is one of them bentIJIJIJ also we have a cage recurculation bar in just attached to the top of the opening of the cage feeder house inlet, (I think I have a picture of it let me know if anybody want's one, I might send it to T langs upgrade site.) We got this one from a AGCO upgrade brochure here in Oz, and I think it helps in keeping material moving around the top of the cage just in front of the feeder opening, it's been there for over four years now can't tell you if it's made much difference but it might help! Rolf

can you give out their number,there are so few newer gleaners in are area that the dealer is useless except for parts!

can you give out their number,there are so few newer gleaners in are area that the dealer is useless except for parts!

I had to much trouble with feed chains jumping this year with the new machines. It seemes they jumped on the right side which is very weard. Didn't have time to make up my own third helical extentions so I used Gleaners. There extention looks and fits perfect but looks to block intake more than I would like. I will look into this more as time permits. I also would ask you if you have rock sump installed or have hump fastened to door. A poor transition from chain to cylinder will work feed chain very hard. I fully agree with removing stripper. Many have left out for corn and just run chains on fast. Don't know about fast but will try if running on slow without stripper jumps the chain. We got used to needing stripper when the feeders run slower in corn position than they do now. We ordered our 65 and 75s with 7" rear drums and had more plugging than I would like. I had at least one operator move drum stops from factory corn position to like we were used to having for grain. Need to talk to him to see if it helped. We did find a couple tricks to help prevent feeder plugging and am very satisfied. Good luck