c_mayer - 7/11/2024 08:52
E.Daehler - 7/10/2024 10:48
Glenn, aren't the cages supposed to be chromed from the factory or did they stop doing that? My old R7 is but its getting enough hours on it i need to find another one.
Yeah, but Glenn runs sandpaper through his combine to help thresh his crops, it really eats the chrome up LOL
Factory chrome is good enough in the corn belt, but Glenn is in Washington, and has some volcanic soils that apparently are VERY abrasive, and it eats up the factory chrome. He has a better chrome job done after season one...it's very interesting to me.
Chris is correct. We need the rice package for our area. Cage chrome is only on the inside and now the outside. Our straw going through the holes will wear out the outside of the cage first so we have to chrome both sides also. We lost our chrome shop due to compliance with EPA regulations so are breaking in a new shop that doesn't have the harvesting experience .
High Deere gets a 5 gallon bucket of dirt from an area farmer weber year since the Mt. St. Helens epitome in 1980 to study it with their caring hardness metals. The higher the capacity the combine, the faster the wear. I remember dumping into trucks with our R72's. When we went to carts and loading on the go that really increased the wear on our combines same crops and same acres. The difference was running the crop through the combine continuously.
I have seen corn, soybean, wheat machines at 4000 separator hours with the factory cages, so in a large majority of cases, factory parts are very adequate
Chris
Rotor cage Gleaner s97
