Any better than chains?

[malleefarmer]

Quiter im sure and not so sure about wear?

Common in canada and usa ?

New here

[Guest]

never saw it here's, looks like a good idea if it doesn't slip? I wonder what keeps it straight ? we have one jump a tooth every once in a while and run crooked

[Ache4Acres]

Wow interesting

I found a link, I think

http://www.agripress.nl/_STUDIOEMMA_UPLOADS/downloads/Presentation_silentium_drive_eng.pdf

[farmaholic]

I don't think so... can you imagine how easy it would slip or tear in tough conditions. If it was such a good idea why isn't it being used already? Is it a serpentine or cogged belt?

MacDon has a v-belt molded into their canvases as a guide to keep them straight. But using belting on a feeder"belt" of a combine feeder housing seems inadequate....can you imagine what lumpy swaths would do to that thing. Would it ever stop stretching?

[biglentil]

Inferior solution to a non problem. Chains just work!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Looks promising to me. I have nothing but trouble with feeder chains in wet or green straw. Yesterday, green stuff must have wrapped around the the drum or drive and derailed one set of feeder chains, then plugged, bent a bunch of bars, lots of fun to unplug when the chains are jammed. They derail regularly in tough conditions. Had the keeper pins wear through and come apart once, tried to run a feeder chain through the combine, that makes a mess.

I really miss MF combines with feeder paddles, or the old Versatiles with the same thing, trouble free.

[fjlip]

If you are having that much trouble with feeder, crop is not fit to combine, stay home don't wreck stuff and your sanity.

[Guest]

Looks promising to me. I have nothing but trouble with feeder chains in wet or green straw. Yesterday, green stuff must have wrapped around the the drum or drive and derailed one set of feeder chains, then plugged, bent a bunch of bars, lots of fun to unplug when the chains are jammed. They derail regularly in tough conditions. Had the keeper pins wear through and come apart once, tried to run a feeder chain through the combine, that makes a mess.

I really miss MF combines with feeder paddles, or the old Versatiles with the same thing, trouble free.

I vividly remember cutting flax straw off of those paddles with a chain saw ! don't miss them at all, lol

[blackpowder]

Almost certain that would not work here. Not sure about modernized paddles either.

[TASFarms]

AlbertaFarmer5 What make is your combine?

[farmaholic]

I vividly remember cutting flax straw off of those paddles with a chain saw ! don't miss them at all, lol

LOL..Yup. Flax straw a Massey feeder house paddles, not a good combination. I remember timing them different so they weren't at 90 degree angles to each other. Seemed to help a bit. We've even had flax straw wrap around the top feeder chain shaft that the sprockets are on(feeder chain conveyance not paddles).... not fun. BUT we never pulled out the heavy artillery(a chainsaw). Always just used a tile knife(banana knife) and pulled.

[sumdumguy]

Buckwheat in lentils can be pretty bad too. They become a tough blanket-like mat. Ryobi saber saw to the rescue! But not without lots of bleeding knuckles.

[Guest]

LOL..Yup. Flax straw a Massey feeder house paddles, not a good combination. I remember timing them different so they weren't at 90 degree angles to each other. Seemed to help a bit. We've even had flax straw wrap around the top feeder chain shaft that the sprockets are on(feeder chain conveyance not paddles).... not fun. BUT we never pulled out the heavy artillery(a chainsaw). Always just used a tile knife(banana knife) and pulled.

ah, those were the days ! sure glad they're gone......

[AlbertaFarmer5]

AlbertaFarmer5 What make is your combine?

I run 8460 MF's, which are a Claas painted red. have two separate pairs of feeder chains.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

If you are having that much trouble with feeder, crop is not fit to combine, stay home don't wreck stuff and your sanity.

Crop is not fit to combine, except for 3 years in a row, possibly looking like 4, waiting for the crop to be fit for combining would mean waiting until next June. So my policy is if it will go through the combine by any means possible, it goes.

Which is one of the reasons why I run older machines which are nearly free. 2 years ago when I was combining wheat in December and getting significant snow/ice, I was told that it wasn't worth wrecking the combine for, my response was that for what I paid for the combine, I could replace with the gross from every 5 acres of wheat, and continued on.

If you saw our forecast you might agree. It is much less exciting combining tough grain/straw that is half way standing vs. after it is snowed on.