[rolf]

Just letting you guys know this frist,
But our 94 R62 with Flex 500 is now for sale!

Getting out of farming!

If you or you know someone interested in a well loved rotary!
let me know, via pm.

Photos should give you an indication of whats been done to it!

Ok, it wont be the fastest machine these days!
But I bet its very close to the most efficient machine of its class out there!
There's a standard 8 bar rotor, numerous bit and pieces as well as the Bison Rotor. (I would recommend that Bison stays in combine!)
260 HP Cummings has been very reliable. We have always stop to unload, so engine has had time to get a breather! (duty cycle)
Flat country around here, so hydro has not been stressed at all, no Rocks, stumps, or fences to swallow. Self mulching soil, so very little dirt/sand been though machine.

use domin.com.au do a rural property search on Horsham, Victoria, Blackheath property sale, and you can see the type of country that this header has only seen.

Let me know if your interested
Rolf


Guys Just some Photos of what we've done over the years to the 62!
Older ones but still relevant I think!
Still looking at putting a Short vid of harvesting the very flat Lentils this year!
You tube be the go I suppose?


Rolf

http://picasaweb.google.com/Rolf.R62/Rol....feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/Rolf.R62/Bis....feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/Rolf.R62/R75....feat=directlink

Some more Photos of this year's (2009) mods and upgrades to R62.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Rolf.R62/200....feat=directlink

 

[laury]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Some interesting modifications there.

A header height indicator was something I always missed when I drove an R62.

 

[Snipe]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

good pics Rolf how did your 8 bar with sweeps compare to Bison? Wally B truck driver or combine operator?

 

[farminflyboy]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Is that an aircopressor? it look like you had some airlines run too, what do those do?

 

[gregorym]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Is anything still factory besides the paint and lights, Just kidding. That looks like some great work and skill. Let me restate that, not great but excellent work. I guessing farminflyboy is looking at the air conditioning compressor. I think I seen a mod to move that to to a different area like the duetz's had to keep the head temp down. On the stablizer bar, I have a series 3 head. The stabilizer is a bad design in my opinion on that. Will this setup work too. It seem like the plastic bushing has play in them after 5 minutes of running. How did you attach the other side of the stabilizer. Thanks for sharing. Greg

 

[gregorym]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Speaking of Air compressors, I always wanted to add a compressor to the combine with a electric clutch and a pressure tank. Then add some nozzles around the windshield and give it a blast of air when dust covers the windshield. Don't know if that would work or not.

 

[farminflyboy]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

gregorym on further examination i think you're right, but in picture 52 there appears to be some air lines that are not for AC so it kinda threw me off.

 

[rom]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

I'm the other half of Rolf's combination otherwise know as ROM ; ie Rolf's Old Man.

Due to lot of AC problems, the AC compressor was moved back to the duetz engine location to reduce AC head temps and better accessibility plus better accessibility around the Cummins radiator fan for cleaning and etc.
On the Cummins powered engine drive pulley there is a shoulder where the V groove for the AC drive can be machined into.
Making the mounts for the AC compressor is very simple.

On the stabilizer bar for the flex front [ flex header ] we had a heck of a lot of problems initially as the stabilizers broke up, ball joints on the stabilizer arm broke or wore out in a few hundred acres, the bushes on the pivot shaft broke up, the pivot shaft lasted about 200 acres and etc.
A new stabilizer was remanufactured from 2"x 1" x 5mm RHS. Fixed the breaking up problem
2 Pivot bushes were installed at each end of the stabilizer arm instead of just one at each end, doubling the bearing surface.
Biggest advance was to get a pivot shaft machined from Chrome steel that is used in hydraulic ram shafts. Not "chromed" plain steel but high quality Chrome steel [ a high level of chrome in it's composition and is also excellent for the pivot pins in the tynes on cultivating equipment ] with a chromed surface as in quality hydraulic ram shafts.
Any kevlar fibres in the pivot bushes that were projecting from the bush are that hard that they were actually ripping particles of steel from the mild steel standard shaft and were rapidly wearing and destroying the standard AGCO mild steel shaft within a couple of hundred acres work.
Chrome steel shafting is extremely hard but not brittle and we have now done some thousands of acres of flex work and have only replaced the bushes once in about the last ten years.
Still on the same chrome steel shaft.

That ball joint locator as Rolf has photoed worked for some 5 or 6 years before wearing out.
The standard AGCO stabilizer ball joint set up makes the ball joint and the stabilizer arm take the full thrust of the drag on the main LH skid plate as wear develops and clearances develop in the pivots of the parallel arms that are supposed to take those drag pressures.
There is no allowance at all for fore and aft wear in the link arms to the LH skid plate in the AGCO design so that stabilizer shaft and that ball joint finish up taking the full drag forces on the skid plate when it is on sliding along the ground.
The ball set up shown was made to allow it to pivot a little fore and aft as the LH skid plate also developed movement fore and aft due to wear and clearances in the parrallel link arms.
In the set up illustrated the only forces that the ball joint and the stabilizer have to deal with are the sideways movement / vibration of the knife bar

The ball joint as illustrated has been replace with a simpler and more reliable, no pivot design using a 4"x 5/8 HT bolt welded to the ball joint housing [ the thread bit was cut off the ball joint so a standard ball joint from anywhere that has the right taper can be used instead of AGCO's $400 ball part ]
This HT bolt and ball was then installed into a tube using the rubber inserts that go into the eyes on the leaf spring shakles under the farm utes.
The tube, with the bolt and ball was bolted onto the front of the stabilzer bar with the bolt lined up along the header [ "front" to Aussies ] using plates. one on the arm and the other welded to the tube with slotted holes to adjust the ball joint for the correct fore and aft position after the taper was fully tightened in the skid plate reinforcing bar.
The rubber inserts allow a couple of mms fore and aft play of the ball joint to allow for the normal skid plate wear in the parallel arm pivots.
This set up is cheap and easy to make and has proven even more reliable than the pivoting ball as illustrated.

Hope you can make some sense of all of this and if there are other questions on those photos then Rolf or ROM will try and answer them.
Should also point out as Rolf has, that we have moved on in many of those changes illustrated and some of those photos are getting close to the early mods on the machine starting in 1997 after the first harvest in 95 / 96.

1994 was what we thought was a full on drought but we had seen nothing compared to what was to hit us drought wise, from 1997 on right through to this harvest.

 

[rolf]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

I will try and update to some later photos this year! and redo link to here.

Rolf

 

[rolf]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Added new link at top of thread with R75 with 45 ft Honeybee Flex draper. Very impressive machine.

Rolf

 

[ausfarmer]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Rolf, the length of that unloading tube is scary on the 75

 

[rolf]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

yer! Ok while Front is on! But they have come close to taking auger out when front is off!!!

 

[bigboy]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Rolf, I enjoyed the pictures of your R62 and the R75. I added a three foot extension on the unloader of my R62 but I now think it needs a support like the R75 had on it, I am worried about the additional strain when folding and unfolding when the tube is full of grain. Would you have any more information or advise on how to make one. Thanks Bigboy

 

[Snipe]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

thanks for pictures Rolf header doesnt look out of place but the unloading auger looks scary. this is a case when they built 45 to 50 foot heads people will by them. a byfold auger would work good in this application

 

[rolf]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Bigboy!
Uncle and Cuz used a binder strap used for hold down of Hay bales on truck transport.
They do have a bracket in grain box that has a pivoting vertical piece and a long steel strap down to top of processor/elevator grain box, that help to triangulate the loads.
They can pivot the vertical steel pivot point, forward and arft to change the exact support strap in the right spot so its tight when folded down and quite tight when in out loading position. work very well, so Im told.Its a 2500kg rated strap.
I have seen extended augers bend at the transport position if you are walking a header over rough roads! So some guys make a extended support bracket out a bit further along the extended auger with some 2X4 RHS.

Rolf

 

[rolf]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Snipe, When the new R series comes out in a couple years time! I'm sure they will have the new auger with swivel elbow at close to top of grain box!!! All it will have is a auger tube through grain box across to right hand bottom side and bottom grain auger will move grain to the right instead of the left direction! Then we will still have a very simple auger with very good unloaded rates and extreme reach to get around these big fronts!

I reckon that if you raised the current swivel by about two foot! you could have a almost straight auger tube across grain tank to right hand side! you get some reach with that setup!

Rolf

 

[rolf]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Update:: Ive just added a new link to some more photos in my first post above.
Couple photos are of the new stabilizer bar arrangement.
It uses two glass bushes to on the Ram shaft Stabilizer rod, and this would be the first time we have replaced these bushes in over 6 or so years! Chromed rod was still in mint condition.

Cutter bar/stabilizer attachment has the rubber bushes out of a ute (pickup) suspension leaf spring anchor point.
This give it some "give" to allow any out of alignment with the radius of the flex front arms. Its not much needed but it enough to stop stuffing the stabilizer knuckle every 100 Hectares!

Rolf

 

[Snipe]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Rolf it looks like you have a nice wheat crop; hows it yielding, is Bison doing a good job in it?

 

[rolf]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Wheat's going about 2.8 to 3 ton/Hectare. Screenings are less then 3 % mainly due to pinched grain and heat stroke back in early November.
Protein is ranging around the 9.4 to 11%
Bison is doing a wonderful job. Straw spreader is not! Its the older mechanical one which has also been modified (beefed up) with bigger heaver gears, but Iv had enough of repairing it every season and have ordered a hyro drive version from local Hydro specialist.
Got rain yesterday (11mm's) so might get it sorted or partly fitted today if bits turn up.

This was a chance to see how much is coming out rotor with spreader off, and I must say that its a lot less again this year, due to slightly longer hockey stick in the sep section of rotor and having the HS pointing straight at discharge.
There be less than 50 to 80 grains per square decimeter, ( 316 X 316mm's) which equates to around the 10 to 15 Kgs/Ha for us!
This is Been the least amount of consistent rotor loss Ive can remember out of out of rotor discharge! Now if I had an adjustable sep grate, I feel I could all but stop it completely.

Rolf

 

[rolf]

Re: Gleaner R62 Photos

Greg, My Farther in-law has claimed that we should be issued with a set of cut off wheels and a large tin of paint, with any new farm machinery purchasers!

Rolf