Combines Turret auger on

The great, legendary Iowa corn farmer Bobby Greif once said: "Turrets are for tanks, not for combines!"

Doesn't really matter on tanks. Cost a fortune to fix, but Deere and C-IH parts guys says it's better than sliced bread. Enjoy!

The turret is very simply. We love ours

Tom,that reminds me of the joke "How many conservatives does it take to change a light-bulb." answer "CHANGE!" john

I don't know how easy swivels are to unload into semis but I do know that the one I have could unload to the ground on the other side of our dump truck and the dump truck is average height. I don't see why if the swivel clears semi's why would you want a turret style, seems to me it would just be a pain in the *ss if you had to repair it. The only advatage that I can see is that you can't hurt the turret style by accidently folding it back while it's on. Curt

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I'd be curious as to what problems you encountered in high moisture grain. Wouldn't it move the crop up the vertical portion of the augerIJ We do a lOT of high moisture corn and would like to know just in case the Gleaner engineers (gawd forbid!) decide to go entirely to the turret style. Thanks!

G'Day Jim and Others

Rolf - Seems I seen in some lowen sales literature I picked up at a farm show last winter that they have a replacement swivel for Gleaners that uses a nylon race as opposed to the balls. I sure do think this would be a better setup. Maybe you could clean your race out with gasoline or parts cleaner solution to get all the old gunk and crap out and regrease itIJ Maybe penetrating oil would work too. Just some suggestions....

The problem was in the elbow where vertical and horiziotal augers meet. The thought was the single flight on the horiziotal auger didn't pull the heavy, wet ,sticky , itchy, milo away fast enough. We double flighted auger seems to have cured it. This was on a C62 no unloader option on that tank.