plugged lexion

[flea beetle]

Do you have the sunflower kit on the impeller. ...if not get it...

No just the regular wear kit. Harder steel bolt on sections that bolt to the impeller, but not serated like you are talking about.

[sawfly1]

That is one of things I hate
About the lex..
Climbing in the hopper.
Digging out the impeller.
Straw by straw. Nothing you can
Drop. Nothing you can get a bar
Or wrench on.
Then the back rotor thing.
Pulling the coupler apart.
No easy task if never been apart
Before.
I gave up and took 2 lex. Mechanics. 1 1/2 hr.to do it.

Case looks pretty good at that
Point.

[flea beetle]

It is sad, because other than the plugging issue the lexion is a pretty good combine. Seems you service it before harvest, and it stays in the field.

The case seems to have little gremlins here and there during harvest, but is a very nice machine to run and in my mind throws a better sample than the lexion. And as I have learned this year, the rotor reverse is a beautiful feature.

Being plugged for half a day at a time is getting to be a deal breaker for me.

[seldomseen]

I am not sure why gets ga ga over the Case reverser? I have run Case Combines since 2004 and neither my girls or me have ever plugged one. The odd time the feeder house has to be reversed

[Guest]

I am not sure why gets ga ga over the Case reverser? I have run Case Combines since 2004 and neither my girls or me have ever plugged one. The odd time the feeder house has to be reversed

then you don't know how fast you could of went

[flea beetle]

then you don't know how fast you could of went

Or been in a 160-180bushel oat crop with green wet straw.

[seldomseen]

then you don't know how fast you could of went

No I guess not but what we do is try to find that sweet spot where our loss is low and that usually at about 75% engine power. Seems to work for us.

[flea beetle]

Although up until this year I thought the same as you regarding the reversible rotor on the case...why is it even needed if you can never plug it? lol Boy is it nice when you actually do need it!

[seldomseen]

Or been in a 160-180bushel oat crop with green wet straw.

Actually I have had more than one heavy green wet oat crops over the years and know how tough they can be!

[farming101]

Going zero is a bummer even if it is to reverse a slug. Don't get me wrong, reversers are why some guys are still farming. They're great inventions. If they work as designed even better.

Unplugging one straw at a time is a good reason not to push past the limits

When you see a pile of trouble ahead(sometimes you don't) and wonder whether it will go through or not, lift up the header, drive over the said pile with the big wheel and don't look back

[farmaholic]

Going zero is a bummer even if it is to reverse a slug. Don't get me wrong, reversers are why some guys are still farming. They're great inventions. If they work as designed even better.

Unplugging one straw at a time is a good reason not to push past the limits

When you see a pile of trouble ahead(sometimes you don't) and wonder whether it will go through or not, lift up the header, drive over the said pile with the big wheel and don't look back

Especially when the harvest window is closing.....which it is.

Harvest weather is now too valuable to waste time.

I woulď do some soul searching after this harvest, if I had one.
This has been the most difficult harvest in my farming career, even harder than trying to keep two used 850 Masseys in the field when I was younger. Why anyone would voluntarily do this for a living baffles me some days. It's probably always been this way but the amount of capital at risk is staggering and the mental anguish and stress immeasurable. My veneer of serenity is wearing thin, it's not pretty what's under the surface.

We are making progress but would like to string more than a couple of days together. Canola done, mustard done, some swathed wheat left(yikes). Doing flax yesterday, things going well until flax was wrapping around the MacDon flex d****r auger. Happening too much so dropped that header and put on the pick-up header and swathed ahead of the combine....poor Iron Maiden was rumbling too much....we quit instead of wrecking something, at least we tried.....crop had frost crystals on it. I wish the grain graders and buyers could experience this, maybe they would understand the cynicism!

A friend of mine had his brother-in-law tell him winter time was for healing farmers.... but this harvest will leave a scar.

[sawfly1]

Was timely topic as , I finished
Canola yesterday. And went back
To clean up some spots skipped
Over the first go.
Should have went to bed instead.
Plugged cylinder and APS.
An hour to unplug.this am.
Actually was not bad this time.
Nothing broken , nothing smoked.

Hard to say what brand
A lot of newhollands 9070s
An up around here. They seem to get a lot done. Even if upkeep
May be high.
Mine is an older lex 08 570r,
Does a good job ,but
A fair # of annoying things.
Maybe they have fixed some of them on the new ones.
But I a not spending 600 on a new one