Combines Turret unloader

[R_O_M]

Dan, this is a crazy idea from an Aussie who knows naught about beans and hopefully will never see the awful harvesting conditions you describe. Can the bottom of the auger bed be sheeted in the same material that is used for the skid plates and can the auger flight also be covered on the live side with the same thin plastic material or even better, make a complete auger out of heavy skid plate plastic IJ The over auger cover would also need to be lifted and narrowed. Calculating the diameters to cut the plastic to make the sheeting for the auger flights is easy. The skid plate material is designed to slide and stay clean in those muddy gritty applications. Hope this does not sound too silly.

 

[John_W]

Here is a link to the Amadas conveyor conversion for JD STS's. But this outfit is owned by JD so I doubt if they do other combines. I remember a fab shop in I believe Twin Falls Idaho that has converted CIH Axial Flows to a conveyor unloader for edible beans for a long time. The only name I can come up with on the web is Edible Bean Specialties in TF at 208-423-5531 and that is pretty shaky, but might be worth a phone call. Maybe a call to a dealer in Twin Falls area would be a better idea.

 

[hunter]

We had pulled out ours from the bottem. Had to take tire off to get it out. Hope you have kepted the auger cleaned out so the bottem peice is not rusted in or you will have hard time getting it out. leave tire on till you get the auger moving down or it may come down all at once on top of you, then tie it up and remove tire. Hope this helps you.

 

[NDDan]

I have never found anything you guys suggest to be crazy. We could line the auger and floor with the plastic type stuff but then the whole inside of tube would need it. The ID of tube will collect the juice from some squished beans and dirt or dust and then grow until flighting catches. It can catch to the point it wrinkles or rips apart the tube. Normally this is only a problem when the guys start harvesting when some beans are still green. Problem goes away when crop is a little closer to ready. Specialty bean combines lift and dump the whole hopper into truck. Most of our area got done with beans in time but some of the guys got trapped planting late because of to much water and then got wet and stayed wet when time to harvest. Can be quite a stuggle when short days and winter is setting in. Thanks for your insight.

 

[tbran]

Ok Dan, what about running a long pipe through the combine, put a bearing in each end, install hyd jacks on each end, and when the bin is full lower the jacks, raise the combine, back a truck under it and let my mother in law who will be in the cab lean to one side so as to tip the combine and dump the beans. Then move the truck, lower the unit and go back to combining. We tried this setup but the MIl got a little carried away and tipped it upside down, took a dozer to right it Needs MIl adjustment.,,, Seriously I am glad we are not in your conditions. later.

 

[R_O_M]

Some of your guys up there look at a globe of the world and think that is how we run our combines! Cheers!

 

[WTW]

Poly on your augers will allow you to run under fairly difficult conditions for quite awhile but eventually the tube will smear up even though the flighting will remain clean. I have poly on the bubbleup auger on a TR and a belt conveyor to unload. This combination allows us to run under almost all conditions in edible beans in southern Manitoba.

 

[JJ]

We had the same problem. We had a 2000 R62 with a turret and the bearing went out after warranty. Now we have a R65, and ran it two years, so far so good. Do you think Deere and Case have that many bearings go out, after all, same style unloader.

 

[Marshaltown_Farms]

Have had some bearing trouble on ours and not sure if one should take inside bearing seals out. We have drilled a hole on top side of gear box and put a grease zerk in so that we can add grease during year. Sometimes I think it runs low on grease and gets hot in there and maybe the grease in bearings gets lost not to mention the bevel gear damage. Have you ever broke the 7_8 bolts that hold the gear box in. This happened to us all the time until we found a way to solve it. Have a Merry Christmas everyone

 

[strawwalker]

I have almost 1900 sep hours on my '62 and no bearing problems with the Turret yet..I think I will service it in the off-season just to be safe..broke one of the big bolts on a very cold day a couple of years back..but no other problems..the reason it has held up so well may be due to the fact that we rarely unload on the go and also never unload at full rpm.