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Iowa55
2391 Posts |
 Posted - 10/29/2009 : 1:00:03 PM
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4450: I don't know how old this belt was, it came with the combine 3 years ago. I had to replace one on the 1460 in 10 years but just being a small time operation well you know it takes longer to get the hrs on a machine than most.
Seems like it is kind of a pain to put on, hard to reach and as I remember there is a pulley that has to be pushed off barely out of the way? Been quite a while since I did it. They have on at the dealer (38) mile drive each way. $85
I am expecting ICF's wife to help, bet she's some cute little thing that can fit right up in there and get'er done. It's even in a big steel machine shed with a concrete floor and not in the rain. |
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timdcrossley
392 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 1:08:46 PM
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Wet corn: When you put wet corn in the bin you need to be careful. 23% corn will grow new mold in 10 days if the corn does NOT start the drying process. So, if you don't have dry air on it quick, you will start to loose quality in 10 days.
21% will be 13 days until mold starts to grow. I felt those facts may help some guys understand what they maybe working with.
I have always dryed corn with air. The problem this year is we have VERY wet corn and '0' drying days. Every day we are using cold damp air to blow thru our corn and that does NOT help anything....Sooooo, the corn just stays damp in the bin. Be careful and check your bins every day! Level them, Core them, Watch them!!!!!
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dennis1
1244 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 3:53:57 PM
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Got an e-mail from a cousin in NE missery-(sp intentional)--telling
about a neighbor who put some corn in the bin at 19%, now trying
to cure it as it comes out at 21%, didn't mention how big the
fans were, but apparently, wetter air going in doesn't help
lower the moisture Way to go show me state
Couldn't run anything Monday, Tuesday started planting wheat--just after noon, a bearing on the drive unit went out--called about
where the bearings might be--UPS shipment on the way--so
took the combine to the field and harvested soybeans, with
a JD until the sun started to go down--humidity started going
up--so of course, stuff bridging on the header--and feeding in
chunks--took the two semi loads to the elevator yesterday morning,
got home to find the parts on the front door step--3 hours later,
planting wheat--until nearly dark--guidance "antanie" fell off
noticed a marked difference in the space or the left pass and
the right pass--and then it started plugging up, in the wet
terrace channels---just in case it rained, they would be planted--
did NOT fight it into the dark---started raining around 10 pm,
combine under a roof, 80/100 in the gauge this morning---
haven't checked weather, but the alert for southern Texass
up through Arkanass was forecast early this morning.
Received pictures of snow fall at Estes Park--hope they keep it
in that part of the country...
Hang in there everyone,
aye, tim, have you gotten any mud tracked in the shop yet?
stay safe
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Faust100F
4954 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 5:04:17 PM
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You know boys if you have corn in the field and it is standing, let it freeze up and then take it out, why screw up your ground for next year? Also, there will be some nice weather blowing in here soon, (next week looks good) and let the corn dry down naturally. Do not get in a rush, start taking it out after Thanksgiving.
Corn will stand well even into March, and it will be a lot drier then, unless you purchased those small stalk tripple dipple varieties that are as big as a lead pencil. I would not even pull into a field unless it was testing less than 18%, why let the elevators screw you?
Like I keep repeating, I burned up a drier bin 20 years ago when I ran into a year like this, it was an expensive education. Let nature dry it down for you.
Db should have a high demand for his super lube this year. Water standing everywhere down here, flood warning tonight here in Ioway. Sitting here like a hoot owl, waiting for fields to dry out, and beans to dry down. Adios Amigos. John |
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verbatime
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Posted - 10/29/2009 : 10:15:11 PM
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Rain just turned to snow here... I suspect that 120 bushel milo will yield about 30 now that what isn't laying flat from the last snow will be all flat.
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48
6223 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 10:20:12 PM
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quote:
[i]Originally posted by 4450[/i]
[br]Iowa55, when I replaced the hyd. drive belt on my `1480 the first time, I figured it was because it was old. The second time I replaced it a couple years later, I was wondering why it failed so soon. When I replaced the one on my 1680 this summer in the middle of wheat harvest, I decided it was because I engaged the bin unloader at a high rpm instead of throttling back to engage it. I decided that from now on, since that belt powers the unloader auger drive belt, I'm just going to change it every other year before harvest so I hopefully don't have to do it in the middle of harvest.
4450: We always unload on the run at full throttle into
grain carts. But...you want to make sure you get the auger
empty...even if you and the grain cart have to sit at the
end of the row...to get empty. Then fire the grain cart
operator. lol.
I55: They've got these guys called...factory trained
mechanics. lol. Probably not as fun to watch as ICF's
wife though. lol. |
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r2d2
27 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 11:06:34 PM
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| 4450, you have to adjust the tension on the cable so that it snaps in first of all.also if you're doing wet corn, you need to close down the gates to the cross augers in the bin. they're probably set for wheat or <18% corn. if you don't you will be replacing the whole bottom of the unloading auger.(gears shafts and cast metal assembly) changing that belt is cake. be safe. rd |
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48
6223 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 11:24:48 PM
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r2d2: Not to be argumentative, but you can run the cross
auger gates wide open in 34% high moisture corn. BUT...you
have to get the auger EMPTY. If you don't...you will be
replacing the gear box as you described. Best. |
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r2d2
27 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 11:39:14 PM
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| 48, i agree totally the bin needs to be empty, but the operators manual says to close the gates in high moisture corn. rd |
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r2d2
27 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 11:45:54 PM
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| i'm sure an old 1480 guy knows the 2 weakest points on an axialfloww are the feederhouse & the unloading system. lmao |
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4450
262 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 04:10:12 AM
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| I never gave it a thought before, but sometimes I don't get the bin unloaded because the truck is full. Maybe the times I snapped the belt were when the tube was full. |
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ECI
1234 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 06:25:51 AM
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Good , Good , mornin ! hope everybody had a good
night sleep. I was asleep before my head hit the pillow
LMAO , matter a fact I don't remeber driveing home LOL
Did not pick yesterday still pretty wet here and looks
like it's going to get wetter, Had a good day , hauling
dry corn out to make room , shut the dryer down last night to
clean it this morning , corn seems to be drying hard and slow,
23 % . had a bearing go out on a upright about dark ,so got
that to fix this morning , then when i got home that is when the
sh!t hit the fan , My Woofer went down ! Tracked it down to a broken
fiber opitices cable , Good thing I keep extra parts ! Was back to
rockin in twenty minutes ! I think my Two year old dobie was
playing with her kong and drop'd it on the plug that go's
in the back of the Woofer, I gave her Mom he!! for not keepin a
better eye on her , LMAO Any way everybody have good one . Ken |
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r3020
3877 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 07:06:05 AM
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Ken, we went till 2AM. Plenty wet, made a few tracks with the combine, got a wagon stuck once. Trying to get corn in all the bin dryers before it rains. Think we may have finally got that injection pump fixed, at least it is no longer dripping. Power is still a problem, that soft ground makes it pull hard. Every body keep thinkin SAFETY. Some guy at a grain elevator got wound up in a U trough yesterday, killed him.
Suppose to clear up next week.
"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it."--H.L. Mencken |
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db51
3963 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 07:47:39 AM
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Our problem down here now is that the bottom has gone out of our saturated soils....the one week opportunity of dry weather next week won't solve the problem....If you're going to get a crop out now, you're going to rut it.....waiting for Thanksgiving or even Christmas won't solve our problem. ...and if you think you can wait till spring like Faust, forget it...that's about the time our next batch of spring flooding comes.....and you'll be looking to harvest 2009 crop in fall of 2010.
It's going to be a mess from here on out....Prices for discs are going to go through the roof for next spring's planting season, aggressive tillage tools will be back in style.....the mini-till ground scratchin crowd will be changing their style.
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Steve52
23 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 08:23:03 AM
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Beans 57% done
Corn 0% done
West central Illinois
2 weeks ago I hand shelled corn tested 28.4%
Last Monday the 26th I hand shelled corn same field, same area
tested 28.2% Basically no difference except some white mold
showed up on the butts of some ears this time.
The ears are still standing up. Not good. |
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2009 harvest progress report
