Thank you for the courage booster video. Never had an R series machine before (upgraded from a M2) and you're right! Easy peasy. The pallet and ratchet strap made it super slick! Thanks again for your help.
27 minutes × 3 "mechanics" is not less than 30 minutes. But lets talk about what the rasp bars rub the crop against. The "cage". How long does "maintenance" on that take? And what's on the other end of the rotor? Another "stop sign"? How about the rotor DRIVE. Did you include that in "27 minutes" or is that considered its own "job" and timed/billed separately? Bottom line is that it is not remotely a 1-person job to simply replace rasp bars in 30 minutes or 30 days using "simple hand tools" and although every "proud" Silver Seeder operator brags up how "simple" and "easy to work on" and "efficient" they are rarely if ever are Silver Seeder ownerrs the first in OR out of the field and damned if you ever see "vintage" Gleaners - L2s, M3s, R50s - still in the field unless they broke down there decades and were never worth fixing OR scrapping. And damned if they seem to get "preventative maintenance" until they're tits up and THAT'S usually do to catastrophic powertrain failures. Hardly EVER have to "service" the "combine" or "machine". The ENGINES on the other hand. Especially in the "vintage" air-cooled Deutz machines and the "real" Gleaners with Allis engines in them. The "rarity" of D21 and 7080 tractors along with "vintage" Silver Seeders from that era is evidence of what happens when you put the screws to an Allis 426 engine to try to "compete" with real heavy-duty diesels with at least 466 cubic inches and top liner cooling and 10 lbs of engine weight per horsepower. The "feeding system" of a Silver Seeder takes 2 to 3 times as much power to run as any of the "competition" EMPTY and thus even in "light crop conditions" and "empty" the engine is at 50% load. OK for easy shelling corn where you only feed the ear or small grains just taking the heads with a platform but BEANS or picking up windrows with a dummy head or running a REAL flex head? Forget about it.
I love haters. If you don't know what your talking about shut up. I've owned green and red combines and silver is by far the easiest to work on when you seldom have to work on them. I run green and red tractors and wouldn't own an Allis. I don't have time to address your ignorance about the gleaner design or your uneducated "questions". In for luch and back to the field for me. Thanks for the comment it helps my page greatly.
