COMBINING CORN HAS BEEN FUN

A few weeks ago I posted that I was having problems with my newly aquired 6620 JD with rear wheel assist. My first problem was that my rear wheel assist didn't work. It turned out that my drive belts were not tightened properly even though the JD dealer I bought the combine from said the machine was field ready.
Got that working and while combining in the mud bent the left side of the corn head shield when it caught a pile of mud. Got lucky there when a repair shop repaired it better than new.
Next I had to replace the fan shroud and then , while combining a pin hole developed in a power steering hose and covered the belt that drives the thresher and feeder house with oil causing the belt to slip. Fixed that and went to combining again but because of the belt having been slipping the inside of the machine was full of unthreshed material and that caused the belt that drives the shoe auger to slip and break,
Finally got all of that fixed and had no more problems and finished the corn for the year.
Can't wait until next year to see what happens.

ISN'T THIS FARMING GREAT FUN???
 
Yeppers,sure is....just yesterday evening I broke the unloading auger belt on the 95 combine. half a bin in the tank. rained last night.Guess what I get to do???? Steve
 
I have been there to, Steve, and I am a little envious of the fun you are having. Stick with it and in a few months you will not remember it at all. Just spent most of the day getting the 6620 ready for bed and I had forgotten what a great fun time that is. LOL
 
still haven't shelled the 1st ear here ,...finally finished beans ,, on the last acre .I used the massey floatin head I had for 30 yrs that has a bad auger bearing , stuck it on the 750 , it done real good,,,been havin a Ball,,. LOL ,had to do that because ,.my best head was problematic with the auger clutch stikin , couldn't find happy medium . if it was too loose the auger would snag up on the tuf bean stalks,, too tite resulted in chain breaking,, ,, and then the final insult , broken chain wrapped around gear and broke the upper drive shaft ,,.in 40 yrs runnin masseys that was a 1st , only had a acre left to go ..I have 6 grain heads,,so I tried a wheat head that did not flex or float,,.too much sunshine windshield glare and dusty conditions had the head seem like a grader blade,. , on the 2nd round , a wad of dirt went up the throat and slipped the clutch on the paddles ,, but I did not realize the throat stopped ..the head was still runnin ..then it started to regurgitate behind the auger , stopped, raised the head towait for everything to clear ,another wad of dirt beans stuck on the end let go and jammed the auger , guikly throwed the thresher out of gear ,CLUNK , SNAP , clunkity -CLUNK .... BLAM,..broke the same durn shaft on another head ..guess I shoulda loosened the clutch and made it slip ...broke 2 exact shafts on different heads 24 hours apart.. and been runnin for 40 yrs ,...
 
Steve,Had almost the same problem with the 9400. About 6:30 Had a electrical relay give up in the middle of unloading. Wife and I are standing on the ground shootin' the bull when outta' the blue the engine dies. Wouldn't turn over zero zilch. It was s'posed to rain that night which it did. Fortunately my local deere dealer was still open mechanic was there to help me figure it out and I could get the relay. within 2 hours we were going again and got the 15 acre field done just as it started to sprinkle.
 
You got it!

Just came in the house here at midnight-thirty, got done working up the cornstalks. Snowed a half inch, its about 20 degrees out. Had 40 acres to work up.

Forgot how cold it is, hadn't plugged the tractor in, an hour wasted.

Unhooking the stalk chopper, saw the oil stream coming out under the cab....

Worked on tracking that down then the snow started, so shift machinery around, get in a shed, and work on it more. Turns out it is a loose fitting, with metal on 3 sides, brace right over the top, and 8 inches from the cab floor below the cab. Can look at it or touch it, no room for both.

Search all over, find one 8 inch Cresent wrench that opens wide enough, but is short enough to get a toehold on the fitting.

Anyhow, 3 hours wasted to turn one fitting 1/8 of a turn to tighten it up....... Glad I don't know that engineer who designed that, I'd a found a place to put the wrench.......

Go field at 3:30, get it done just now, going to finish up some end rows, and suddenly the front wheels are pointed in different directions.

Big nut fell off the steering knuckle, arm fell off the pin.

Get things kinda lined up, back on without a nut just set together, and came home. Slowly. That one end row can wait until next spring, me and the tractor have had enough. ;)

Bad exhaust gasket too, last few days, poor thing needs a little rehab over winter.....

Also have extra hose and couplers and a mismatched hyd cylinder on the soil saver, as one decided to leak internally a few days ago.

Its all fun.

If it were easy, everyone would do it.

Yesterday was finishing up with plowing, and hit a rock. Instead of kicking up the trip, it twisted the bottom so hard it busted the 3 (well probably 2, looked like one was already busted) bolts holding the whole bottom onto the shank, spun the bottom around and jammed it onto the sank backwards. Funniest looking deal. Looked like I was trying to make a 2-way plow all at the same time....

Been a year. I call myself done.

Good night!

Paul
 
Wore a hole in the clean grain elevator pan on the combine. Took it off and brazed a patch on it, then back on with new screws cause I lost the old ones. Broke two joint strips on the lower canvas. Had to make new ones, then put back together twice cause I forgot how to release the tensioners the easy way. Then blew a manifold gasket on the tractor, haven't got that fixed yet, head and manifold at the machine shop. Best part is I did all this running 4 acres of soybeans. Just think what I could have accomplished if I only had a few more acres to do.
 
Broke the shaft at the top of the clean grain elevator. Got that fixed worked through 60 more acres of soybeans and corn. Fan shroud came apart and went to the radiator. Had to have my radiator record. $660 later that was sweet. Used the old 300 for another 20 acres of corn. With less than an acre to go the bearing on my chopper when out. You gotta love it.
 
My luck, Some days it just doesn't pay to win! ;)

When I recover a bit, I want to write down my fall, all season really, in a journal.

All in all I'm happy and enjoy farming and doing well.

But every farmer has that one in 10 years when its a disaster, and this was my turn.

Just glad to be pretty much done.

Now I can watch the value of my stored grain drop over winter.......

Paul
 
We use a 95 Deere for corn with a 435 head. For some reason this fall the head seemed to want to take way to much stalk in and with the higher moisture corn made for slow going. About two thirds done one of the pins on the shaker assembly decided to brake off and take a large chunk of the shaker with it.Rather than fix it now we took the corn head and put it on the other 95 we use for small grain. It was a long slow harvest.
 

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