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Shorten chain on corn picker elevator

Hard to answer your question without knowing make & model, but on many elevator-type chains you have to get enough slack to allow two adjacent links to buckle until they nearly touch each other, then they can be slid apart. Do it again to remove a link then re-attach the remaining links in reverse fashion.
 
It's easier if you have a chain breaker tool, but you can get by without one.

http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=196836&DisplayType=flat&setCookie=1

Not sure how to link this. Guess you'll have to copy and paste it.
 
If it's a New Idea,there should be one link with a pin through it. There's a cotter pin holding the pin in. Loosen the adjuster all the way,pull that pin and pull the chain together to see how many links you can take out and still get it back together far enough to get the pin back in.
 
That's how I do my chains - might add that this method does require a certain amount of cursing sometimes.
 
Thanks everyone. It is a New Idea and I have the adjuster link right where I want it. It doesn't seem like I can get the other links to come apart without cutting through them. Is there a trick I am missing or do I need to cut?

Jon
 
Yup! Been many a naughty word uttered when you found out the evil genius who designed the adjuster made it so it wasn't long enough to take up all the slack and was also JUST a TAD too short to give you enough room to take out a link and still get the chain back together!
 
Just turn it to an angle and drive the edge of one link through the slot in the other. Takes a little bit of hammering to get one started some times,but once they start in the slot they come pretty easy. Big trick is to get it against something good and solid.
 
Here are the pics I was trying to link to earlier.

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This tool makes the job easier if you can get one. But as rrlund mentioned, just get something solid under it, get it turned to the proper angle, and start beating on it. It will eventually let go.
 
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