Getting my Gleaner ready for harvest.

Oliver Farmer in MI · Oct 13, 2014

This will be my first year with this combine. It is a 1977 Gleaner K2. I'll be harvesting soybeans with it. It has a 12' head with a HC floating cutter bar. This past weekend I worked in the cylinder area. The cylinder clearance gauge was way off. Gauge showed 1/4" and it was at least double that. I zeroed it out and reset the gauge. I then opened it up to 1/2" clearance. Previously it had concave bars in the 1-2-3-4 positions. I changed it to have bars in the 1-3-5 positions. What do you guys think about these settings to get started?

cydectin · Oct 13, 2014

I have a 1973 K and cut 10 acres of beans on Saturday before the monsoons returned. My machine has same as new cylinder bars and I ended up with my settings as follows: cylinder clearance at 3/4", concave bars at 1,3,and 5, cylinder speed as slow as it will go on 13" pulley, air as fast as it will go, chaffer at 9/16, and sieve at 7/16. Moisture range of 14.2 to 12.8 depending on where I was at in the field. Your settings may be different on the air as I am not sure if the K2 had two cleaning fans and your chaffer and sieve are longer giving you more cleaning surface. Good Luck

jm42 · Oct 13, 2014

that is the exact setting I ran with my K2, I did have trimpe bars in it though. k2 was a good running machine.

paul · Oct 13, 2014

Wow, depends on the bean moisture, I was running at 1/4 inch in beans at 11-13%, very few cracks. But that is on F and M series.

I'm just a tad over 1/2 inch on corn now, getting mostly full cobs out the back in 21-23% corn.

Paul

JMS/.MN · Oct 13, 2014

Always a good thing to zero the gauges on a new machine. I typically use the same spacing on concave bars. Make sure the unused spots have bolts in the holes so beans don"t escape.

When I had a FCB I put a rod on the thresher housing, coming up in front of the cab window (in a ring mounted to the bottom of the cab). Painted the end yellow, put black tape on the window at top and bottom of FCB range, so I could see the yellow mark when dust was too thick to see the FCB.

4020 electrician · Oct 13, 2014

1/2" might be to far. Try 1/4 and set clearance more if needed. I usually run about 1/4 to 3/8.

Oliver Farmer in MI · Oct 14, 2014

Thanks for the help, guys.

Also, my cylinder sprocket puts me at 400-600 rpm for cylinder speed range. I plan to run 600 rpm. Sound right?

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