Combine made a heck of a noise!!!!

super99 · Oct 20, 2009

I got started cutting beans yesterday. The 2nd round around the field it started making a awful noise, metal on metal, vibrating, I thought a chain was jumping on a sprocket. After much checking everything else, I took the access to the cylinder off, and it looked like something was in there so I drove to the shop. With a magnet and a prybar, I was able to work a part of a disk blade out of the rock trap opening. I did get 4 wagons and a hopper full cut. My tester says they are 12 1/2 to 13 1/2% moisture but there are a few large wet beans mingled it there. The bin has a 12" aireation tube on the floor, so I hope it moves enough air thru them to make them keep OK. Chris

Vito · Oct 20, 2009

That's a unexpected surprise!

Vito

Plumcrazy · Oct 20, 2009

A few years ago, I had a complete walker rack come loose, and it went through the straw chopper before I got the seperator stopped. It totaled the chopper, bent two other walker racks beyond repair, and put mega dents in the rear of the combine. NOT a good day.

IaGary · Oct 20, 2009

Just never know what your gonna pickup.

Last year I pickup a steel post. It wrapped around the front of the rotor and made a heck of a noise.

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fixerupper · Oct 20, 2009

Wow, the beans are that dry! Here in NW Iowa we're fighting 16-18% beans, and there's a ton of them out there yet. The last 100 acres of mine went in the corn bin at 18%. The fan will be on till I can get them down to 13% so I can transfer them to the GVT bins.

When it comes to getting something in the cylinder or rotor, I think a tree limb is about the worst. It wedges in there so tight and you can't cut it out with a torch. Jim

Bob · Oct 20, 2009

I'm curious... what model is the Massey?

super99 · Oct 20, 2009

It'a an old 750, red cab with a 372 perkins.

super99 · Oct 20, 2009

That's what my old tester called them, usually fairly close. I debated putting them in the drying bin to run air on them and didn't, may wish I had. Having problems with some wet beans and pods in the tank and I'm hoping they keep alright. My 18' bin has a aireation tube on the floor with a 12" fan on it. Hope it will move enough air to take the moisture out ot the trash, but since it all goes to the edge, not sure what will happen. Overcast all day today, didn't cut any, probably should have tried it. Chris

730 virgil · Oct 20, 2009

oak tree limb in snapping rolls of corn head ain't no fun either. standing on corn head with double ax cutting it out in dark was a pain.

Sam from WA · Oct 20, 2009

I had a part of a tree root get stuck in the cylinder of the 95 when we were running spinach a couple weeks ago. Bout the time it hit the cylinder, it stalled the engine. I thought i had spinach stalks wrapped around the cylinder, so went to shop truck to get a something to turn the cylinder back, and found the chunk of root. pulled it out and all was well again.

Karl in MD · Oct 21, 2009

How about a 20 inch bicycle abandoned in a soybean field. It made it all the way to the cylinder of the 6600. We were cutting at night and the driver never saw it. Took most of a morning just to get it out.

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