Gleaner E

This was a couple weeks ago running beans. The Trimpe bars are a huge improvement. You can see the difference in the modified rebuilt bars and the originals. I can’t speak to how it would have done before on beans because this was my first time ever running beans. He told me that it probably would be fine slowing the cylinder down a bit so I was still running the corn sprocket with the variable speed wide open. It did the trick, no more ground up beans, and ran pretty clean.
I did put the corn head back on it and took it to the CAPOOT picking day and it did an excellent job on corn. Whole cobs out the back, no trash in the bin, and no corn out the back. The speed limitation was not engine power or separator capacity, it was the snapping rolls. I could run in 2nd and about 1/3 open on the variable speed before the right side would bunch up, the left would let me run wide open on the variable speed. I’ll have the spirals built up and maybe new blades on the rolls for next year.

E Gleaners just go and go and go

Your old bars have been run a way to hi. Let cylinder down to 1/4.          MACK

Warning on changing blades on old orange flat chain heads. The blocks are ALUMINUM!!!! and fine thread. Easy to be "one and done". I have a few new blades I didn't install. 2 boxes...maybe 8 pieces? You can have them for shipping. I would leave well enough alone and weld edges up. Next best is have new steel blocks made. I learned why some of my blades were welded to each other. Just saying be careful with what you do.

Edited by SteveM C/IL - 26 Oct 2020 at 10:16pm

SteveM C/IL wrote: Warning on changing blades on old orange flat chain heads. The blocks are ALUMINUM!!!! and fine thread. Easy to be "one and done". I have a few new blades I didn't install. 2 boxes...maybe 8 pieces? You can have them for shipping. I would leave well enough alone and weld edges up. Next best is have new steel blocks made. I learned why some of my blades were welded to each other. Just saying be careful with what you do. My A2 bars were like that. I ran a 1/2 bead in the center  twice then welded full rib with hard surface. Did every other rib like the Trimpe's and let the others to wear. Did 80A for 19yrs.

When you say the blocks are aluminum, which ones are you meaning? The plan is to just build the auger like ends up without removing them from the header. Is this not possible?

Brian Jasper co. Ia wrote: MACK wrote: Your old bars have been run a way to hi. Let cylinder down to 1/4.          MACK At 1/4” it was grinding the beans to bits. It also wouldn’t feed evenly. I was having trouble with it plugging about every 10 yards. Opening helped, but not enough. I’d get bunches going through then I’d get beans left in the pods. The new bars fixed all that.

The old bars did that because they were worn out. I'd run the news ones at 1/4" like MACK said to prevent premature wear.