I was stuck in a fabric cube all day wondering if I'm wally or dilbert.

Guess where I'll still be once your augers are fixed and you're back to it...

 

I guess there are better days ahead of me.

 

one time i went to bearing store and got balls for auger swing just a little bigger than the new one from my dealer-at a fraction of the cost.old time gleaner man told me when your balls wear out your tube will fall off.

 

Thats funny. Thats exactly what happened too. There are about 150 of those ball's.

 

We used the semis like that once. The L is just not tall enough to dump into the high side hoppers. I think you will keep tearing them up unless you put a ramp of some type to drive on. One thing we did was put a semi beside the oil lease road and then drive the combine on the road to clear it.

Goodluck.

 

There are sooooo many ways i could go with that quote, but i think it speaks for its self. I don't care who you are thats funny.

 

if you have ever seen your auger tube laying on the truck or worse yet on the ground -you'll need to have something to laugh about

 

Was wondering if you ever thought of adding that 30" extension on to your auger. I have the same problem with my M3 not reaching far enough and was thinking of adding to it. Do you think the collar is strong enough for that? To make you feel better, yesterday I was out 5 or 6 times every round unplugging my feeder beater. Stems in the beans are green and like small trees and the beans thrash fine and are 12.8 moisture. Oh, dad also did the auger out and pole in the way scenario once too on my M3. Good luck with the fix!

 

Thanks for the replies. Well I lost the job that I was working on because of all my troubles. I went to Vernon Tx to get another auger tube and after driving 3 hours there they told me the one they laid out for me was the wrong one. I was too come back the next day to get the right one. I just did not have a good ending to the 2009 harvest season.

I was actually thinking about trading both L3's off for an R7 with a 30ft head. Any thoughts on the R7's?

 

Jeremy, I'll bet a lonely ol' Gleaner in Brady, Texas may still be looking for a good, loving home.

 

Once I got used to a rotor, I wouldn't go back. But there are growing pains that came with that. I didn't know what to look at to start with and got a good looking wore out machine to make a long story short.

 

I forgot to add my bad day, dad and I started on soybeans a couple years ago. We just got the N5 and didn't totally understand the beast. He started out running it and I was walking behind checking to see how it was operating. He slugged the impeller on the discharged. We had the right side opened up and dad messed with the HI/Low on the gearbox and left it in neutral. We then slugged the rotor. I opened the concave all the way up and cleared the mess out. I then could not close the concave. I twisted off the shaft that goes to move the concave. After looking it over, I didn't feel something was right inside. Found out all the guts inside the machine to move the concave was missing. It was just riding on the right side cam. After getting all the parts replaced, the next day the seperator clutch would not shut off. The bearing was gone and ruined the hub and all. Previous owner must not have known about the grease zerk in there. I spent 2 good days fixing the N5 and staring at the M2 in the back of the shed thinking somehow it was jealous and jinxed me.

 

The lost my balls problem on the older gleaners can be fixed with an aftermarket swivel. I think loewen may sell it but it has plastic where the balls were. As far as truck being to tall you don't have to put auger all the way out.

 

Ya we didnt have the augers all the way out. We backed them off the side of the trailer by few inches. I unloaded at a low idle so it would'nt put much more stress on the auger. Guess is was too much stress.