seperator hours

tractormiallis · Dec 31, 2014

Is there a rule to figure how many sep. hours on a combine? I am looking at a 6000 engine hour machine, but is on a rebuild of only a few hundred. Given no meter, how many hours could be on the separator? Should it have been rebuilt or mostly new parts, figuring on 4000 hours roughly, perhaps?

Bob Bancroft · Jan 1, 2015

Who knows how much idle and road time it had? I'd say that's a good guess.

notjustair · Jan 1, 2015

I guess it depends on the area. On a 6000 hour machine I would MAYBE have 250 more engine hours than separator. All of the fields are close here. I know some guys that drive from the next county over - theirs would have half the cylinder hours. On an old machine look for wear through on the side of the straw walker or clean grain auger that usually happens at 4000 hours depending on machine.

jm42 · Jan 1, 2015

My combine is 73% and that is about the average I have experienced over the last 20 years on my machines. So it probably has 4000- 4400 sep hrs. If the engine was rebuilt I would not be concerned there, my only concern would be items such as frame bores that might not be easy to repair or cost effective.

sd pete · Jan 1, 2015

I would say your 4,000 hours would be close.

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