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Brandon

03-11-2003 19:04:15




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I have read other posts about threshers with self feeders. How can I tell if the one I am going to buy has a self feeder? What exactly does the self feeder do??? Thanks for your help..Brandon




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Okla/Kans Bill

03-12-2003 19:14:54




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 Re: self feeder on thresher in reply to Brandon, 03-11-2003 19:04:15  

Since yo dont know what a sef feeder is or does, then mayb I mighrt better add this. If your thresher has a divider board that does in the middle of the feeder, then you got a big thresher and had better plan on having a 30+ tractor to horse it when running. The board, or maybe just the brackets are set from bottom to top in the middle of the feeder and the apron rides below it



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jim

03-12-2003 15:36:56




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 Re: self feeder on thresher in reply to Brandon, 03-11-2003 19:04:15  
By the way , will attend the funeral tomorrow of the last member of the syndicate which shared the thresher that we used. Syndicates were formed years ago to purchase equipment(like threshers) which could be shared(along with the labour)with neighbours. To this day, whenever I see her, I remind this man's wife how much I liked her fresh peach pie! Amazing the little things you remember after 50 yrs. or so.

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David C. Baker

03-11-2003 20:21:28




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 Re: self feeder on thresher in reply to Brandon, 03-11-2003 19:04:15  
It will have a link chain and cross pieces that run in the feeder area--the part that lets down at the front end of the machine. The feeder chain is tied into a governor-controlled drive so that if the machine slows down, the chain stops until the machine clears and speeds back up again. These models also have twine cutters--large claw-like working parts that cut the twine on the grain bundles. Older, non-feeder models had side panels that let down like a table so the bundles could be laid on the side, the twine cut and grain/straw fed into the machine as loose bundles.

When a wet bundle went into the machine, it would let out a "whomp" noise, the thresher would slow down, the main belt would slap, and the tractor engine would struggle to bring it all back up to speed. Heaven forbid that a loose fork on a pitchfork would get into the machine. Could ruin it!

Nothing like these machines for excitement. I was chief straw stacker from about the age of 10.

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jim

03-12-2003 15:28:52




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 Re: Re: self feeder on thresher in reply to David C. Baker, 03-11-2003 20:21:28  
Another way to get a break when feeding a thresher was to throw a couple of sheaves in crossways instead of heads first, would plug the machine or throw the belt - or both! Never got to run the blower, just keep the grain leveled in the grainary. Being the youngest also assured being last at wash-up time before the meals. By that time, you could walk on the water in that old wash-tub ! How many of you guys have bee there, done that?

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