Learned something about Combines today!

Proper drying and drainage/runoff is also as important. All excess water must be removed as quickly as possible. This is what will also keep down rust, but just the presence of crop residue is the absolute worst thing that can happen. Never even begin the long, drawn-out and often quite arduous task of washing any combine--if you cannot finish the job! Any combine that cannot be or simply does not get thoroughly washed/flushed inside and out, should be kept DRY and SHELTERED from the rain or snow, period!

Also, be very careful about washing your machine after the end of fall harvest. Any water forced into a bearing or tight spot is more likely to freeze at night long before it can normally evaporate. Also, evaporation is slowed way down in periods of cooler to cold weather. If no shed or canopy [carport type] is available, blow/wash it off and tarp it.

No, I would not want to be branded as a kind of "PETA-type radical." It's not so much the scrapping of truly worn-out, junk machines and legitimate salvage, I'm just very adament and vehemently opposed to, when it comes to either wanton scrapping/crushing of the GOOD, still running combines or [especially] the demolition derby. There's just no need for that, period.

What many here, also need to realize, is that many [though not all] salvagers, will be more than willing to sell a few good combines that come into their yards, simply because it's only logical and good for business, that a cerain percentage of "obsolete" combines MUST SURVIVE, in order to simply sustain their own parts demands. Duh? I don't see these combine salvagers as brutal, mindless destroyers of every last combine on the planet. I for one, depend on parts from the less fortunate combines--just to save many others' lives.

LOL! I'm still interested in the donor organ pulley(s) from this dead machine! Maybe after you robbed all the usable stuff off the carcass, there should be a wake and memorial service?

Do you think burial in crypt or cremation is best? Are you going to offer a few words for the dearly departed...a Combine Eulogy?

"Dear Friends we are gathered here today to part earthly company with a tired servant of the fields, whose life was cut short because some human failed to clean it's guts...be sure your sins will find you out! This poor, poor, mechanical beast could have been saved FOREVER to sit in some persons barn drawing dust and bird$hit, a home for rats and pigeons, but no...it was brought to a sad end...parted out...oh have mercy on us all! Good-bye dear combine, goodbye from this life we say...farewell you poor unappreciated monstrosity....gone, but not forgotten..oh woe!..bowing our heads, Let us pray." HAR!

Both of those pulleys are usable....the big one can be bushed down to 1" and the other easily bored out. Let me know when you get time. If they are stuck, burn the shafts off, I can clamp them in a vice, add heat and a hammer to beat the stubs of shafting out.