Better way to unload grass seed from 3300 JD?

LeakyBoot · Jun 6, 2021

What would happen if I removed the shield over the unload auger in bottom of grain tank to aid in unloading fescue seed? Would everything just jam up?

mtf · Jun 6, 2021

I would not recommend shield removal. Fescue seed is hard to get out of some bins. If it has too much moisture or other green material in it, it can pack together like a brick.

Only very few times have I not had to get in the bin with my piece of 3/4 pvc pipe and help work the seed out.

I am getting things ready to roll in a couple weeks. All this rain we have been getting is starting to bring them down.

Good luck.

LeakyBoot · Jun 6, 2021

Thanks for the reply. What seems to be the difference in good unloading bins and the ones that you have to fight all the way?

mtf · Jun 6, 2021

We ran 45's and 55's for years. The single auger in the bottom worked ok. We wore those machines out and the replacement, after talking with posts of the old time seed runners around here was to go massey ferguson. The larger the throat the more screen surface, and the more seed you can run. The window for harvest here seems to be very narrow, so when they are ready you have to run them before they shatter. We decided on a 550 and it has been a good machine.

I had a neighbor that run seed with a 3300 with pretty good success.

My uncle used to say there was one day a year That Fescue would fall out of the bin.

LeakyBoot · Jun 6, 2021

I don't think the 3300 is first pick of the options out there. I cut seed pretty fair, just such a long process to get it out of the bin. My question was, and I was not too clear, what does the other good unloading systems on the older combines have that handle the seed well that the 33 lacks? It seems to just pull out what is under the baffle and the rest bridges until it is poked, plus won't slide down the sides well.

mtf · Jun 6, 2021

The 55's and the massey have tappered sides down to the one auger across the entire bottom of the bin.
I know the 4400's and I think the 3300's have the smaller augers that feed the bigger auger in the bin. The bottom of the bin is more flat. Just more complicated to get the seed through. Like I said before, if they are dry and clean they will flow much better. Are you using enough air to blow the majority of the chaff out? The more empty hulls you have the more likely it is to bridge.

Bridging is going to happen in any bin. It is just a matter of how much poking you have to do to get them to flow through the augers.

Brown Swiss · Jun 8, 2021

3300 does not have those small augers, we had a 3300 and then a 4400, the 4400 was tougher to get wet grain out!

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