Rocks are Bad

MNGordon · Nov 1, 2014

Well I found the reason my 45 was clogged up. I picked up a rock. Now looks like I’ll be shopping around to see if I can find some rasp bars and rasp bar supports. Just my luck

Dick2 · Nov 1, 2014

When I was a kid, an uncle was helping us combine with his old Gleaner 9ft. pull type when he picked up a rock. Dad sent me with uncle to our shop to straighten the cylinder bars on the anvil. I held the bars while uncle hit them with a maul; after a couple of hits the bumble bees came out of a nest in the wall and we both got stung a few times before we got out of there.

When they settled down and went back into their nest, we grabbed the squirt oil cans and soaked the nest with oil and went back to pounding the bars - the bees didn't appear again.

casenut1 · Nov 1, 2014

Where you located at? Have two old 45's sitting waiting to go to scrap.

puln70 · Nov 1, 2014

I can remember close to 50 yrs ago when my Dad had to send my Mom out to find a little hyd jack that would fit in there to straighten up the bars in our Massey-Harris 72 that picked up a rock.It was quite a job to get them straight & I think they got replaced before the next season.

wilamayb · Nov 1, 2014

It might be easier to get a complete cylinder out of another 45. Just roll yours out and roll the new one in...I had a spare combine but hauled it off last fall after robbing all of the parts that I thought I would ever use.

If you can find some straight original bars, a fellow in KS built mine up to factory specs for a hundred bucks or so. I used them this fall for soybeans and noticed a huge difference in feeding in green stems. The new bars fed evenly rather than slugging piles through like the worn bars.

As far as I can find, the only new bars available are the very aggressive style bars which understandably cause grain quality issues from cracking.

MNGordon · Nov 1, 2014

North Carolina

MNGordon · Nov 1, 2014

100 bucks is cheap enough. To bad im in NC. Ill do some looking around to see what I can find. May try to sraighten myself. I have a feeling replacing all of them will cost more than the machine is worth

coonie minnie · Nov 1, 2014

It may be more than the machine is worth... but so what?

Will the new one be cheaper? Odds are the new used one will need more in repairs than it's worth, too. That's why the last guy ditched it.

wilamayb · Nov 1, 2014

Cylinder bars aren't that expensive. It looks like polytin still offers a new set of Ausherman style bars for $234. You may prefer to buy a used set of originals from someone here and have them built up.

If your 45 isn't totally junked otherwise I vote to save it. What can you replace the 45 with that is any less junky and any more functional for the repair bill on the 45? I think youd be hard pressed to find anything any cheaper to operate or any cheaper to repair. As long as you don't need added capacity, its hard to find anything any better.

The only complaint I have with my 45 is header choices which I can hopefully remedy with my QT feederhouse. The remainder of the machine is exceptionally functional, durable and easy/cheap to maintain.

MNGordon · Nov 1, 2014

This is my first combine. Like you said it is pretty simple to work on, Doesnt have all the electric mumbo jumbo on it. I was thinking it would cost more like 1000 bucks to fix. Im just a greenhron lol. The thing runs great after i rebuilt the carb and picked corn good until the rock incident. The corn isnt clean as a pin but for selling to local deer hunters its fine. I have been lookin on the net but havent had any luck yet with finding any rasp bars. Ill kep looking. Thanks Guys

MNGordon · Nov 1, 2014

Ill give polytin a call Monday.. Thanks again

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