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| Is yours breaking at the adjustment handle bolt holes? That's where the majority of chaffers locally break. Our reasons for the breakage was the field terrain. The grass seed rows become quite rough as they get older. The seed itself is very light weight so we are essentially running emply all the time. This will bounce the rear of the machine a lot. Not really high or hard on the superstructure type bounce, just the speed of the bouncing along with the movement of the chaffer and shoe, cause some stress in the middle of the wide chaffer.
I got tired of the expense of new chaffers so I just put one of the old broken ones in the shop and fixed it. I cut the old cross bar out and installed a quite a bit larger one. I cut out a small section at each end and welded in a piece of thicker flatbar top and bottom. This made it easier to cut threads into reliably and it strengthens the tube so it cant crush. So far the added weight of the bigger bar has had no ill effects. I have an air=foil chaffer and I just bought a Gorden air-jet chaffer with 2 sets of screens. I like the Gorden setup the best. It is quite spendy, but very well made.
Edited by Old Pokey 1/24/2007 22:42
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top sieve for caseih combine?
