jd9500
Guest
I have a 9500 that I did that to. Switched the augers around. I also welded small steel flaps on the shaft right after the flighting where it drops on the chaffer. that helps to throw the grain toward the center. It definatly helped.
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Combines Shoe AUgers Reverse Right and leftIJ
pbutler
Guest
Interesting-on those flaps just something about 2-3" long and out 2 inches or so. I assume you only did that on the outside ones and the part of auger coming from the frontIJ
Old_Pokey
Guest
Have you ever read the book Ray Stueckle put out many years ago about combinesIJ You'd probably be able to find a copy on ebay or something. Its worth reading. He was the one that first put the idea of the auger swapping into the publics eye. Here's a link to some info about it. My dad had a 6602 and a 6620 and we used most of Rays "modifications". The machines did a great job. I cant say that they did as good as they should have had someone with better management skills than dad been running the place though.
greenstrat
Guest
Pokey is right, it will help. It also will hurt you on level land because you have just overloaded the middle of your sieves from both sides. ac tried this same thing by using a big air delivery blower with a gravity controlled valve to always have the flow toward the lower side. The problem they all had around me (I am in big hills) was when the slope evened out the thing blew on both sides, narrowing the sieves and cutting capacity to less than what it was without anything at all. If you want the corn to lay evenly across the seives, you are going to need a self leveling machine. Big benefits to this are the grain tank can be utilized to it's fullest every cycle, field speed can be about max for whatever your machine is capable of at all times, and the operator is always sitting level, which has for me been an very comfortable feeling after a long day. big downside is a leveling machine is expensive. gs
pbutler
Guest
I don't have that many hills-may just stay with factory...
greenstrat
Guest
some guys near me with less exciting ground just open the hole over the return corners and they say it helps on slopes, causes more damage to grain, but still doesn't put as much on the ground. With a level land machine, slowing way down is about the only way to get all the corn. And at $4_bu it pays. gs