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Post by shmiffy on Sept 25, 2020 10:50:15 GMT -6
Anyone make a stripper bar for the pea auger so it doesn’t wrap. I made 4 3/4 paddles for the Center and that helps keeping things flowing.
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Post by theking1009 on Sept 25, 2020 19:08:22 GMT -6
We welded a small auger flighting around it, instead of the bars, doesn't wrap around like it used to, think macdon sells the flighting
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Post by shmiffy on Sept 25, 2020 21:49:41 GMT -6
The way canola grew this year. It needs something in the Center pushing down or else it just piles up on the Center and won’t go in. Never seen anything like this before this year.
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Post by SWMan on Sept 26, 2020 0:51:19 GMT -6
What crop is wrapping? I was having soybeans wrap today quite frequently, so I slowed down the flow by turning the on/off valve part ways.
I do have an Ag-Shield cross auger on my swather and it has the stripper plate, works real good.
Haven't seen canola wrap but it pushes up the back(even over the cross auger) and in windy conditions some is always lost. Also those angle braces in the center for reel arm supports tend to hold crop back from flowing.
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Post by theking1009 on Sept 26, 2020 13:49:26 GMT -6
Ya those center braces suck, a guy should put the short ones on, peas and canola used to be bad for wrapping around, behind the peas augers we bolted a angle iron so the crop doesn't come up
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Post by shmiffy on Sept 26, 2020 15:27:10 GMT -6
Canola is wrapping. The longer paddles in the center keep it from getting hung up on the center reel support.
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Post by meskie on Sept 26, 2020 15:38:03 GMT -6
We don’t have any paddles in middle of ours. Can’t remember the last time we had canola wrap on the cross auger.
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Post by SWMan on Sept 27, 2020 14:58:18 GMT -6
My Ag-shield one had those paddles and they warned me I might want to remove them, which I quickly did because they caused wrapping.
Pretty sure the one on the Macdon header has no paddles.
Was discussing these augers with another guy that runs a Convio header, it seems the larger diameter cross augers used by Claas(and maybe Deere?) do a much better job of keeping material pinned down on the canvas. Last little bit running my Vario auger header next to draper heads in canola and the auger head is absolutely laying waste to them for ease of use and smoothness of feeding.
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Post by theking1009 on Sept 28, 2020 9:35:16 GMT -6
Swman What model Macdon do you have, our fd75 had paddles, unless you order without them,first year we had them, canola wrapping like crazy, I heard about that too,the bigger cross augers work better, hopefully Macdon has that option if we trade ours in the future,
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Post by kenmb on Sept 28, 2020 19:54:51 GMT -6
Doing mustard I find every year is different. I started making notes and soon realized that was a waste of time. Some years moving the auger 2" up or down, forward or back makes all the difference. The honeybee I can run the plastic paddle extensions, the basic metal paddles, or take that assembly completely off so nothing in the center. Have used all variations over the years. Make sure you have no 90 degree corners on your paddles. Cut them at 45 deg. That alone greatly reduced where my wrapping problems started. This year I recognized a bigger diameter auger would have helped the issues I had. And so I also got to thinking an auger head would have been better yet.
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Post by SWMan on Sept 28, 2020 21:57:15 GMT -6
Swman What model Macdon do you have, our fd75 had paddles, unless you order without them,first year we had them, canola wrapping like crazy, I heard about that too,the bigger cross augers work better, hopefully Macdon has that option if we trade ours in the future, FD140/145 lately. Auger head was getting the best of the draper head again today, canola wouldn't detach and flow evenly down the canvas at the end at all. It was pretty tough today though. |
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