aliss charmers combine 66

hi
picked up a old 66 all harvester combine....seems to be intacted.....did try harvesting a little stand of buckwheat.....some from a winrow....some standing......got lots of straw with the buckwheat.....so i openned up the blower levers.....and saw no straw.....thought great....fixed that problem.....got up in hopper where i had a catch bag.....no buckwheat eighter.....lol....
i noticed the bars on the reels are bent....not so much in towards the reel but more like droops in center....more worried bout the tin that houses it.....that is bent outwards....there is like a 1/4 inch gap at sides ....but almost 2 inch in center........its not rusted just bent......
just ordered a manual for it....hoping to get this thing running for next yr......anyadvice would be greatfull
 
The op manual lists settings for over 100 crops (thus All Crop 100 terminology). You"ll find the adjustments easy to make.
Back then, most combines did not have crank adjustment for cyl and fan speed.
 
That combine did have crank adjustment for cylinder speed but not fan speed.Concave clearance is big factor as well as speed. Was the seed left in the straw or knocked out?
 
seed must have been blown out with the straw....
i wont have a chance to try till next yr .....i am growing some barley and rye and oats next yr....
are they any easier than buckwheat.......
 
I don't even know what buckweat looks like let alone how it harvestes. We ran wheat, oats, soybeans, red clover and timothy with ours but30+ years ago. Neighbor did rhy but he had an extra low gear in the tractor he used and it got very tall.
 
When you say "reel" do you mean the wooden boards on the head or the rubber faced sleet angle irons that are called cylinder bars that actually break apart the grain. The clyinder bars must so trait to properly break apart the crop. If they are bent inward and the concave pan and concaves are bent outward then someone has rean a rock through it and they need replaced. They won't do a good job unless they are straight.
 
does it have a scourkleens up by the grain tank? it was an accessory to remove dockage from the harvested grain and direct it to a burlap sack mounted on the combine. there were different screens in it depending on the crop harvested. if it has a large hole screen, the buckwheat will pass right thru and drop either in the sack or on the ground. here is a pic of the scourkleens

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yes i was talking about the cylinder bars....i got my manual today.....and i see it says i need a finishing sieve for buckwheat.....
 

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