Thought I’d reminisce with you about last year lol thanksgiving day was a lot different for me unfortunately 🤦♂️ but it ended with us finally getting the combine out
Oh I completely agree. My Thanksgiving was child’s play compared to yours. Here’s to both of our combines washed up and stored away by Thanksgiving this year!
I just found your video. I had the same combine and corn head. Loss over the walkers: Check to see if you have lost a separator curtain. Open the door in the engine compartment and look forward towards the beater. There should be a tarp like curtain that hangs from a simple rod. The shelled corn loss could be the beater throwing corn over the walkers. If I see correctly your 893 head looks to be throwing ears. I took all the rubber flaps off the auger feed into the feederhouse. That stopped my ear toss.
That's an excellent point about the 893. I had removed the rubber flaps, but I've seen some guys will get ride of the metal/bend it flat on the auger as well. Thoughts on that? I'm so annoyed when it's throwing ears like that!
@@RemembranceFarmsLLC I haven't modified the flap attachment bracket but it does make sense. Two things seem to work for me 1) I have a shield over the auger where it goes into the feederhouse. 2) Hydraulic deck plates (I'm not sure if that is standard on all 893 heads) Those deck plates allow me to take in a bit more trash when needed. That extra material cuts ear toss.
Planetary Disaster I’ve actually thought about building one of those shields over the auger! And that makes sense about the deck plates. Unfortunately mine are hydraulic, but that would make sense to take in more material. It’s honestly one of my most hated things of watching ears get thrown out!
Slow down the cross-auger speed with a different drive sprocket size. They usually spin too fast. You can slow it down quite a bit and still retain capacity. Add extra curtains for the straw walkers? That's what I'd do. Hope this helps!
Definitely thankful I didn't either. For the most part, there was a bottom to most of the wet areas. I think I actually fought more with the mud last year when the combine would just sink out of sight. This year it seemed to ride of the top better (the PWRD certainly helps too). Thank you for the comment.
I would have never even thought about driving through those wet spots with my combine! Lol. I ran snow and slush through my combine last winter and plugged the sieve and chaffer, never have had much trouble with the walkers that I know of. I’m curious if you had any noticeable problems?
Thankfully it was just a lot of surface water this fall with a bottom to the mud holes. And surprisingly, the singles and prwd get through the areas fairly well. I definitely feel your pain with the snow and slush. There were a few nights where I had to run the tube heater into the back of the combine to get it melted/dried out. It was kind of ironic that the day after Christmas had warmer temperatures and was a nicer day than most of harvest.
I wonder if your walkers are plugged up. Did ya do any running in the snow, usually in corn Walker loss only happens on side hills or if there plugged up with damp silks and fines. I had to power wash the chaefer and seive four times on the few beans I had Lol. I was so happy to get them done but still gotta do the corn if the ground ever freezes or drys out.
I'm going to need to double check now. I had gotten up in the engine compartment and looking down onto the walkers and they looked nice and clean when I was using it. But I did have issues with the chaefer and seive needing to be cleaned out after the snow, so I probably shouldn't double checked the walkers too. Best of luck with your corn. I got lucky and had the ground fairly firm (at least a bottom to the mud areas). Hope you can get yours off too.
I have the same heavy eye lids and a bottle in my mouth by end of corn harvest. lol as bad as 2019 was across the nation 2020 could be worse. set concave clearance to avg cob size through inspection door. did you kill stall the combine and then open the door over the walkers to see what is there? if there is a lot of trash coming in and its thrashed kernels then slowing ground speed would be the first thing. if its broken cob with kernels still on it I would open concave. I would also look at back of concave to see if inserts have been installed. if there are some there I would remove them.
This is amazing information Jon. Thank you so much. I wish I had posted this sooner so I could've done all that. I'm going to take a screenshot of this comment though and store it away for next year. Now that I'm all done, I'm really hoping to get updated how everything is going up for you as well. Hope everything is going good. Thanks again Jon.
Hudson :) Hesston would certainly be an interesting one. I grew up watching the “Hesston knows hay” promo videos. But yep, my little guys name is Hudson.
