Gleaner G
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Topic: Gleaner G
Posted By: Kurt WI
Subject: Gleaner G
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 4:24pm
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Ive had this combine for 5 years and has always worked great! Now last fall finishing beans and this summer wheat the whole rear end by the sieves plug up. I dont see anything wrong anywhere as this just has me baffled! I even got the fan all the way open so it has full air and it doesnt matter as what the chaffer is set either as it plugs with straw and the heads. Any of you guys got any ideas? Thanks in advance Kurt ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
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Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 4:28pm
| make sure the canvas is still hanging up inside the machine, it's up near the front of the straw walkers. helps direct the air flow |
Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 4:56pm
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never thought about that! ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 9:02pm
| Are you running at the rated RPM of the engine.Had throttle cable mounts get lose and didn't have full movement and lost 100+ rpm ,just didn't clean as good as normal.Even with built in tack in cab nice to have a hand held to make sure everything is good. |
Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 9:11pm
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Sure seems to be running at rated rpms! ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2016 at 7:10pm
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The canvas is still hanging and is in pretty good shape! ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2016 at 8:10pm
Well, I bet I know what Shameless is thinking....time for a 95 JD!!!
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Kurt WI wrote:Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2016 at 8:44pm
Oh heck no, I see the grain samples coming in from deeres my this old G has them beat till this year! You can also go out in the field and start cutting or green feed chopping the wheat that they put back on the ground!! ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2016 at 9:02pm
Just like the new STS combines! STS, depending on who you ask, stands for: Straight Thru Seeding Stolen Technology Systems Stuck till Sunday (I guess because they're so heavy) There's probably more....
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Posted By: TramwayGuy
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2016 at 9:19pm
| How are the blades in the fan? They are just wood, I think... |
Posted By: Leesok
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2016 at 11:14pm
| Could be stems stuck in top and bottom sieves blocking air flow. |
Posted By: GM Guy
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 12:16am
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make sure the fan blades are in good shape, and the variable fan sheave freely operates.
------------- Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine. If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 2:36am
| may hafta open up the sieves just a tad more, and go buy a hand held RPM guage, fire up the combine nd hand check the RPMs on the shafts. also, hand check the fan blades (cleaner fan) some were metal and some were wood. wiggle them. I had a couple blades come loose, but looked fine when looking down in there. caught them just it time before they grenaded. and as GMGuy says, check the sheave for adjustment. usually proper settings is all that is needed, but there could be a rats/coon nest caught up in there too that's hampering the air flow! also check for rust/dirt on the lowest pan under the sieves, make sure the tailings are able to slide on back down. may hafta slip plate it. |
Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 12:54pm
Yes they do and plugs the whole chaffer up! Just dont know why it never bothered before. Till last fall finishing up some weedy beans. Wheat this summer same thing it went down and got weedy not a lot weeds till i finally gave up! Its not like i never had weeds in the wheat before with the combine. ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 12:58pm
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ok the lowest pan it where i think it starts! I looked at my bosses M3 this morning and it has a cover the bottom pan! Mine just has holes and straw/plant material fall into and stand up straight. Could this be the issue? But it never bothered before and is there even a cover for that bottom pan on a G? ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 1:05pm
| appears to me that...that creston young'in is try'in to gits under my skin a bit! well young man....be careful....it just might backfire on ya....as I have a few plans already for ya! and....well....you'll see! lmao |
Posted By: old farmer
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 1:21pm
| They use to have a cover to run small seeds crops. Cover usually off for corn and beans. Can be bugger to change. Corn and beans machines have it if I member right. Straight grain normally have solid bottom in them. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 1:25pm
| and the surfaces may be rough....dust, rust, try shining the metal up sum with a rag ona stick, then run it, after stuff goes thru awhile, it'll shine everything up then. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 1:27pm
.....uh oh......
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 1:29pm
| Check the RPM of things hard to listen and tell if it is a tad slow. Just 50 to 100 RPM will make big difference. So easy to do if you can find a tack to use. |
Posted By: Dans 7080
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 3:19pm
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Do you by chance have a chopper on it? Did you take the chopper off to run wheat? ------------- When someone tells you Nothings Impossible, Tell them to slam a revolving door |
Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 3:52pm
Nope no chopper on it! ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 3:54pm
It is a Corn soybean special! The holes are about the size of a pencil in it. ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 3:56pm
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So shameless which one should I get for one of those handheld rpm readers? Digital, a photo senser one or such? Thanks ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 6:07pm
| just a round one with the needle, they run both directions. the part you put on the shaft has a rubber tip so it doesn't slip. you just press it onto the center of any turning shaft to get the reading. I don't trust the digital ones. |
Posted By: Leesok
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016 at 11:14pm
Nope, should not be getting trash in that area. What hits that screen or pan goes to the clean grain elevator. Sounds like you have corn sieves. You will need to remove both sieves and clean all stems out of them and get them to close completely. When you start combining again have the top sieve at about a quarter of an inch and the bottom barely cracked open. Open slowly until you get it set. A little movement will make a lot of difference. Or you could just get correct sieves. It took time for enough stems to get hung up in sieves to reach a point to where you can no longer close them enough to keep the stems from going thru the bottom sieve. JMO |
Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2016 at 1:01pm
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I can get it cleaned out good and close both the sieves and the chaffer. I dont think I have the wrong ones in as I got the corn ones sitting in the shed. Im just baffled! It worked till last fall and it worked good, combining corn oats wheat and soybeans on 100 acres! But I'm gonna get one of those rpm tachs and see from there. Shameless what brand do you have? A google search and there is a lot of different ones! ------------- WD D17D 170 190xt 190xtIII 200 7020 |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2016 at 1:22pm
| I don't remember the brand name, I bought it at an auto parts place, and I've seen them in farm stores since then. have had mine for 30 years. i'll see if I can find it and report back to you! it's something you don't use all the time, but sure is helpful when you have a problem. that's why I didn't want a digital, cuz of the battery issue. if you don't take them out, they will corrode the insides, and the batteries will be dead. and when you need it, you hafta look for a battery! then there's that itty bitty mother board that will expand and contract in the heat or cold and break a contact. I have digital display in my rotary combine, and watching it while it's running, it keeps changing! even when what ever you are checking on isn't working! and it was like that in all 3 of my rotary combines! that's why I don't like them much! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2016 at 1:26pm
| also I do remember running wheat with my "G" combine. I didn't have the wheat sieves, just corn and bean. and just playing with it was able to combine all three with the corn sieves. they ARE a bugger to change by yourself! and even with 2 people! only thing I had to change was the springs under the floating cutter bar between beans and wheat. |
Posted By: VAfarmboy
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2016 at 3:24am
I have a Stewart Warner handheld Tachometer just like this one I use to set our Gleaner because the tach in the cab has never worked since we have had it. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sww-82682?seid=srese1&cm_mmc=pla-google-_-shopping-_-srese1-_-stewart-warner&gclid=Cj0KEQjw9IS-BRC4qZXagbLs6uMBEiQAYHBh-xbQp_ah08f09YXgtm8zTaiUTFeES9URD4oXe2LndkUaAhCM8P8HAQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sww-82682?seid=srese1&cm_mmc=pla-google-_-shopping-_-srese1-_-stewart-warner&gclid=Cj0KEQjw9IS-BRC4qZXagbLs6uMBEiQAYHBh-xbQp_ah08f09YXgtm8zTaiUTFeES9URD4oXe2LndkUaAhCM8P8HAQ You can probably find a used one on Ebay for a whole lot less $$$. We had the same problem with ours running about 100 RPMs too slow. It didn't plug up but just didn't clean good. Also, be sure to check the oil level in the governor. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2016 at 4:30am
| Kurt....that's like the one I have that Farmboy has pictured. |
Posted By: Carl(NWWI)
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2017 at 8:40pm
| Kurt, what did you ever find wrong? Bought an A2 this summer, when I brought it home the sieves were full of cobs and husks. Cleaned it and ran it in some beans today, plugged right back up. |
Posted By: MACK
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2017 at 9:50pm
| Put screens over fan openings, both top and bottom fans. MACK |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2017 at 10:11pm
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Posted By: Pete from IL
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2017 at 12:39pm
| For wheat you need a cover for the perforated bottom or you will lose too much wheat and maybe that is part of the plugging problem with stems getting in the holes. |