Safest, Most Accurate Way To Set Up Combine

Safest, Most Accurate Way To Set Up Combine COMBINES Maintenance 22-1-38 "It's the safest, most accurate way there is for one man to set up a combine," says Jeff Peter who designed and built an automatic grain loss measuring system for his R-62 Gleaner combine. Called the "Pan-It Grain Saver," the Hicksville, Ohio, farmer's system proved so successful for measuring loss from header, shoe and chopper, it's now being marketed for Deere, New Holland and Case-IH combines as well. The system consists of a 2-ft. wide aluminum pan that's as long as the combine's grain shoe. It slides onto a frame underneath the shoe. A switch in the cab ties into a 150-lb. air tank, which activates a cylinder that drops the pan while the combine's moving along at harvest speed. The pan collects a representative sample of material discharged out the back. When you check the pan, you use a chart to tell what your grain loss is over the shoe and chopper. Checking underneath the pan lets you know what your loss is from the header. Then you simply adjust your monitor and/ or header to compensate. The system installs in 35 to 45 minutes in combines with existing bolt holes drilled in the frame (Deere, New Holland, Case-IH); slightly longer in combines where holes must be drilled (Gleaner). Lists for $595 plus S&H. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Farmer Fabrications Inc., Rt. 2, Hicksville, Ohio 43526 (ph/fax 419 542-6880).

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