Grain cleaners

Charles Stodollka · Oct 14, 2011

I have a J. W. Hance grain cleaner in good condition with screens intact. I am not sure I am operating it correctly or have the screen placement right for cleaning rye. It has two oscillating stages one above the other.

I think it may be running backward as the fan is sucking air through the screens instead of blowing it up through.

Has any one here operated a Hance or have a manual for one that could advise me? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

larry from md. · Oct 14, 2011

My father used one for years and it blew the air out a hole on the one side.The air system never did as good a job as the clipper cleaners.

retired farmer · Oct 14, 2011

It has been awhile since I used one but what I remember is the larger screen goes on top and the finer screen goes on the bottom and they only go one direction. There should be an exhaust port on the side somewhere that blows out of the machine. There should be two ports on the ends of the screen assemblys that brings the clean grain out one and the gleanings out the other one. It shook a lot and was a messy job from what I remember. Mine had several different size screens for cleaning various crops.

Charles Stodollka · Oct 16, 2011

Thanks for your response, you answered a number of my questions. When I got the machine the screens on both the upper and lower stages were the same. I understand now that the top must be coarser and the bottom finer for each stage. I am thinking the upper stage coarse and fine screen should be larger than the bottom stage set. So there is a gradual cleaning, a true two step process. Also the machine does blow out the side and if that is an exhaust port and not an intake port then the fan is running in the right direction.

The machine is messy and I turned the exhaust port out the barn door to keep some of the mess out of the barn. But it does seem to be well balanced and runs quietly and smoothly.

Charles Stodollka · Oct 16, 2011

Thanks for your response, I don't know how a Clipper works. Does the air system on a Clipper blow up through the screens or suck down as the Hance does? One of the things that seems to be a weakness on the Hance is the over size straw bits and chaff, gets hung up on the coarse screen and doesn't flow off well. If the Clipper blows upward than the over size material might flow off better and result in better cleaning.

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