Combines Sidehill mods for M2

There are quite a few hillside MH2's sitting around dealers lots in north Idaho and eastern Washington that they would love to unload. That would solve your hillside problem up to about a 40% slope. You could probably get one pretty cheap. Hauling it home could be a problem.

Rpms are usually the problem. We set them up so as to run no lower than 2450 eng RPM. Install a 25 or 30 tooth sprocket on the rh cyl drive sprocket for the thresher beater. Remove or tie up the metal curtain over the sep raddle. We ran a high profile concave bar n71178136 so we could shell corn and leave the cob whole at 3_4" or 5_8" cyl clearance. leave the long finger screen in set at 5_8" front and 3_4" middle and rear. leave the lower screen in and set at 7_16 usually . There are chaffer leverlers available and we fabricated a set for the lower and upper raddle as well. On really severe slopes there is no subsitute for an air flow grain saver. Finally notice the shoe. If one ever sees a shuck or whole cob coming over a shoe on a Gleaner you have an air problem due to rpm , the fan_shoe drive belt slipping or a splitter problem.

On most ocassions where we replaced a F2 with a M2 the corn harvested per day nearly doulbled. Soybeans only about 10-20% more. Where machines were equipped with pacers we found we ran out of walker capacity before the shoe in the flatlands and of course the shoe limited the speed in hillsides.

You might not want to hear this but the best thing to do might be to look at some thing like a R50. That is what we did and went from 2mph up to closer to 5mph with no grain loss. There are geting to be a lot of them around on lots for a good price.

I still need to check engine RPM. Analog tach in cab shows 2450, but they have been known to lie. Engine does sometimes pull down to 2350 under load. Metal curtain is up. Cylinder beater driver sprocket is 25 tooth, driving 18 tooth on beater. I run at the low end of cylinder rpms when I can, 5-600, so would upgrading to a 30 or 35 tooth driver be advisableIJ Fan belt is newish and tight (spring in front hole). Have channel concave on door. High profile concave appears to be angle iron. What are the dimensionsIJ Are the OEM concaves heat treated or will most any machine shop have what I needIJ What are the chaffer and raddle levelers you refer toIJ I don't find any reference to them in the parts book.

Something I did to my R62 this year that has worked well on the slopes of N Idaho is to install deflectors on the side of the shoe so that they are just touching the top of the chaffer fingers. 2" x 6" of 1_16. Pop rivet them toward the front 1_3rd of the chaffer. They can also be put on the dividers or any place you feel grain is comming off in a band. I started this trial in bluegrass, a crop where the acc. roll wind can't be used and continued throug wheat. What I found is the grain slid to the side on the grain pan creating a row on the chaffer that could never get broken up and right out the back. Once the deflector moved the grain or grass to the center of the divided section it tended to stay there. The deflectors never did plug up on me. If it doesn't work for you your out a piece of tin and pop rivets.

nice pictures, all that orange it's almost like I died and went to heaven

they used to be a machinery item. I will try to post the n's topside. High profile is 1_2 again as high as the standard and allows for corn on corn threshing