Idiot's guide to Gleaner K adjustments please
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Topic: Idiot's guide to Gleaner K adjustments please
Posted By: Aboo1
Subject: Idiot's guide to Gleaner K adjustments please
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 1:12pm
| I have a Gleaner K that is set up for corn right now and I will need to get it set up for beans. This is my first year running a combine and I have nobody around to show me how to do it. I am fairly mechanically inclined and can do all the work but I haven't the slightest idea on how to get everything adjusted. I have the owner's manual but without knowing what I'm looking at you end up going cross-eyed trying to figure stuff out. I will need it to harvest beans in the next few weeks I'm sure but I don't know where all the adjustments are. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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Posted By: nick121
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 2:28pm
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I find the manual pretty straight forward.. Setting are just a guideline in the manual. My F2 might be different but I run the cylinder speed around 600.. depending on how tough the stalks are. Fan is set fully opened.. The sieve which is below the top chaffer .. I grabbed a handful of beans and make sure they all fall through the sieve. Cant remember what the chaffer is set at.. The cylinder clearance should be set by mesuring or using a bolt between the cylinder bars and concave bars.. The measuring gauges might not be accurate. I'm still new to this also.. but I haven't got docked at the elevator. cracked beans usually seems to be too fast of cylinder speed. Feel free to correct me as im still a combine rookie
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Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 3:30pm
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I usually run the top sieve 3/8-1/2”. I use my finger tips as a guide. Tighten it down till I can just slip my finger tips between. I usually start with the lower sieve just slightly closed down from the top and close it down until I get a good sample in the bin. I always run cylinder at 1/4” in beans. You will want to zero your gauges on the side. Lower the cylinder down till it just contacts the concaves and then loosen and adjust the gauges. Good luck |
Posted By: Aboo1
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 3:49pm
| I get the feeling it's like baler knotters or a stick shift transmission. It's simple once you have it figured out but just to start out learning it looks impossibility confusing. |
Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 4:07pm
That’s about right. |
Aboo1 wrote:Posted By: nick121
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 4:41pm
| yeah.. I found it helpful to read the section in the manual on how the crop is threshed.. With the illustration/cut away of the machine. understanding how everything worked helped me a lot. I'm still learning, They are simple machines to set up and fix |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 6:17pm
| NICK, do you suppose the JD 7720 you inquired about on AT will be as "simple" to set?? |
Posted By: nick121
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 7:32pm
| Well I don't know about it being too difficult to set.. but fixing would be much harder. belts underneath the seat and what not. Didn't end up buy it.. going to look at another f2 for the acres I have it's a walk in the park for the F2's |
Posted By: aras
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2017 at 6:48am
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Combines are air sensitive! Keep that in your mind when adjusting things. I use the chaffer to mainly direct air flow. You need to have the material other than grain in an air suspension and not sifting out the back. I hope that makes sense. I struggled with that my first couple years. Another tip -- there is no reward for having the cleanest sample at the elevator. If you are not getting docked it's good enough |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2017 at 7:05am
| Those are wise words there aras about getting docked. Likely 1% dockage is even good enough. Close enough is close enough and perfect is almost always a pain in the butt. There comes a point when you need to keep your butt in the seat and get something done. (As fun and rewarding as it is to mess with things and see the fruits of your labor so to speak!) |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2017 at 10:05am
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You originally said you need to harvest beans in a few weeks... If you're in Illinois, good bean drying weather is almost over. get those things cut as soon as you can get them dry enough. Anything under 14% and I'd be going.
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Posted By: Aboo1
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2017 at 10:25am
| I'd love to but we keep getting rained on... We still have a lot of beans in the ground around here.... |
Posted By: Aboo1
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2017 at 10:27am
| If I had to guess I'd probably say 80% is still in the fields and 90% of the Corn |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2017 at 11:41am
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ouch, we got a lot done last week during those few rainy days, but still have some left. I just thought I'd mention since you said you were new to combining. Good luck
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