help gleaner E in corn

DrAllis wrote: If you don't have a 35 or 44 tooth sprocket, leave it in the shed or quit complaining about cracked corn. If the combine isn't properly equipped it can't work right.

How does that reply help me? If it is impossible for you to help with the situation I am in now, I demand that you stop posting unhelpful and negative comments. Those comments are not worth the time it takes to read them.

Alex09(WI) wrote: DrAllis wrote: If you don't have a 35 or 44 tooth sprocket, leave it in the shed or quit complaining about cracked corn. If the combine isn't properly equipped it can't work right. How does that reply help me? If it is impossible for you to help with the situation I am in now, I demand that you stop posting unhelpful and negative comments. Those comments are not worth the time it takes to read them.

Doc can sometimes come across as "testy", but his reply here was actually good advice. If you look at Steve, Mack, and Docs replies just before this as all together, they are good points. I know it can be frustrating, and sometimes easy to feel insulted, but I don't think that was anyone's main intent here.

     Because of my inexperience, I ask for help on this forum. If I were to take the advice about leaving my combine in the shed: a. I would not gain any experience and b. My corn would not get harvested. Both are contradictory to what I need to accomplish.
    I got a 42 tooth sprocket and had it bored out to fit the hub today with the holes drilled. I have a lot less cracked corn. Only 10% to 15% cracked now. Corn is at 15% moisture. Lonn- The cylinder bars are round, not square. I'm guessing that is certainly not helping me. It does leave a few kernels on a cob once in a while, but it wil get me through this year.

Lonn,you better define square because they are not technically

SteveM C/IL wrote: Lonn,you better define square because they are not technically

You're right. I believe the book gives a good example drawing as to what I'm referring to as square.

I'll look for a picture to post. Dad's old E was just plain worn out and the bars were particularly worn badly. We couldn't get a nice sample no matter what. Then I bought a very nice E. The elevator crew knew right away we had done something different. They actually thought we'd picked up a rotary but I told them, no, just another E but in good shape. The one guy named Norm said our sample was as good as any new combine. That was back in the late 1980's.

Here, in this pic, you can compare the leading edge which is rounded and the back edge which is still square (or if you prefer .... sharp). These bars in this shape shoupld probably be reversed so the new edge can do the threshing.