Combines Trouble in grain tank

I've got an R52 with the same problem. looks like dust worked between tank and cradle, pushing tank wall into auger. looks like only solution is to cut out bad area and replace. Considering riveting tank wall to top edge of cradle. Any other ideasIJ

Do you know where the dust is coming from and how many hours do you have on your machineIJ

Can't say for sure where the dust is coming from. My problem area is between the rear conveyer and left side of machine. I don't think that would be very dusty since cleaning fan intake is right below it.

Quite certainly what starts this is a bad hit on unloading auger. This can buckle this area enough so auger will hit and wear threw. Another thing is to try very hard not to let wet crop sit in there to long for the acid will eat and weaken area faster than crop flow. I have cleaned area inbeween floor and support very well and then riveted floor to support with wide flange steel rivets every couple of inches. Once a hole has got rubbed into floor the crop gets forced under floor and keeps bulging it out making things worse quickly. Yes the tank floor is the ceiling of feed housing but that is not where dirt is coming from. The direction the auger turns is why the floor toward the rear gets pushed up.

Dan where the floor is pushed up the metal is not wore threw on the bottom . Are you saying that the force of unloading will buckle the metalIJ How do you clean that area and what did you useIJ Couldn't material(corn stalks) wrapping around feeder chian push this area upIJ

No the flow of crop will not buckle the floor. If you got a hole in floor then the material could get forced into hole which would start to push floor up. We scraped with something thin and blew out until we had it as good as we could get it and then figured the point where support is and installed a line of rivets. I've never seen the area above feeder bulged to speak of unless there was a worse problem to the left where hole was in floor and it worked its way to the right. I suppose it is possible that a terrible slug in feeder could of come around and bent floor up.