K/EIII Gleaner Cylinder Bars

New ones from Agco available,but pricey!

SteveM C/IL wrote: Call Trimpe in Seymour In. They may have some rebulit ones. They will be cheaper than new. (better too)

 

I just put a set of the Trimpe bars in my E and am extremely happy with them. Call and talk to Ralph, tell him the guy in the red car from Iowa sent you. The E3/K bars are the same. He will only accept bars that are genuine AC. In my case shipping was $100 so if your bars are worn enough it’s not worth sending them back to him. It just worked out that we were headed to Ohio from Iowa so I dropped them off on the way. The roller skate I was driving might have used $10 worth of gas.
What I can say is they made a different machine out of it. If you have weeds, they will pull them through instead of wadding up. It will use less engine power to do the same work. I took my E to the CAPOOT corn picking day at Collins IA and it didn’t work near as hard as it did before and I could run faster than a couple Deere combines about the same age as my E. Didn’t take long to adjust and I was tossing whole cobs out the back, no shelled corn on the ground and no trash in the bin. The limiting factor for speed was the snapping rolls on my head, not power or separation.

No wires in mine. I haven’t had time to clean it out yet, but I wasn’t breaking up the cobs either. I do need to make a cob shield for the raddle though. Occasionally I would get one down where the clean out door is that would jam it up. The manual says that can happen in high yielding corn without one.