In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Straw wrapping on L2 tresher rattle chain posted by Wilben on October 25, 2004 at 07:17:34:
I am glad you found the extension, you know it's like a hidden secret and if Gleaner would have pushed those parts and made them known, they would have been serving their customers well. I come from a Gleaner family, my dad built the from 1952 thru 1987 and retired. It's the only thing we will ever have so I have learned to love them, you know. A bit of history, the auger tube in the pan, he made the first one ever made, he punched the holes in it for the fingers and access plates and rolled it in the brand new slip roll former while all the wheels were watching from west allis. His first combine was an E, chain drive everything, then we thought we were something with an F, He had a stroke and wasn't able to help anymore so I traded it on the M2 we have now, he thought it was way to big, someday I would like to swap out for a rotary. My next experiment with ours might be filler plates between the cylinder bars and possibly staggared spikes (8 max) on the cylinder to prevent slugging. My brother is concerned bean straw may wrap on the cylinder. Oh well better go, Good Luck