JD6600 plugging Don't know why.

ratskinner1

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I have a 6600 that keeps plugging up atThe cylinder. I had 100 acres of beans to run the last 10 acres I sucked In a slug of dirt. Machine worked fine cut down to the last 1 acre and it?s got plugged and bent the sprocket that runs the Straw walkers and bent the bracket the sprocket was on slip clutch act like it wasn?t working right. Fix the sprocket took the cover off the top of the feeder house by the cylinder unplug that. And then started back up again didn?t get 100 feet it was plugged already at the cylinder. And this time he broke the spring tensioner on the beater bar belt climbed inside the beater bar was plugged this time and the cylinder. Got all new parts and belts fixed it went back out that one pass in plugged up at the cylinder again. I don?t know if there?s something wrong with the cylinder or something wrong with the con caves. I am just wondering if anybody else has experienced these problems.
I?m running an 18 foot head I have ran it with the con caves open more cylinder speed faster and as slow as the machine will go with only half the head and the beans and still get the same results.
I would really like to get those last half acre of beans out before I have to plant again LOL
 
I know NOTHING about a GREEN combine, but is there a raddle chain between the cylinder and the walkers/shoe area that isn't working?
 
The walkers are working right the rear beater is working right. I don?t know about the con caves. Can I get full of mud and dirt?
 
I do not know Deeres but had a conventional, could be something slipping in the feederhouse and sending slugs into the cylinder. If after the cylinder is plugged you should be able to look into the machine and see, or if there is a slip clutch on the cylinder drive. I would grab every sprocket/pulley and try to spin and feel for slippage or excessive play, could have sheared a keyway.
 
I have logged alot of hours in a 6600.
My guess...the area below the concave is full. With the wet and late fall, you could have a concave that is plugged and not allowing material to fall through. The cylinder has to thresh the grain and expel the fodder. If the concave is plugged, then it will slug...quick.
 
Check to make sure the auger bed below the concave is operating. I agree with the others who have suggested the rock trap and the area below the concave may be plugged.

Lon
 
I clean The rock trap out a couple times . It sounds like I need to look up at it better with a flashlight. Usually I clean out the rock trap the door above the feeder house and it works for another hundred yards
 

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