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SW Saskatchewan | When you get those sounds, the first thing to be endangered is the concave holder pipe and mounts- slugging can stretch or break these. Many otherwise cherry combines have had these mounts stretched by slugging on swaths. Repairable.
Next to go would be the rotor drive belt-unless of course you have one of the new super-strength ones-then the drive coupler to the rotor may fail.
Never stretched or sprung a concave- have knocked some bars loose with rocks - but have done all of the others mentioned here.
Remember- if you can keep rotor speed up, the material will keep feeding rather than get rolled into a ball and slug
An IH is down right comfortable to run through slugs compared to my memories of our old tr-70- --even an uneven wheat swath would maKE YOU BELIEVE THE SEAT WAS IN EJECTION MODE. | |
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How much abuse can a rotary IHcombine take (rotor)?
