Claas Senator - freeing up a blockage

Exfarmer

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Bury St Edmunds
Yes, by all means...
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Looks a perfectly sensible thing to do, with such a machine!!

What does milling rye look like? I'd imagine that it's a very small seed, and takes some keeping in the combine, does it not come out of every nook and cranny?
I had betterr post this on the cycling forums, to expect major hold ups on this route, ps dont forget to fold your header. :):):)
 

Exfarmer

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Bury St Edmunds
It might take you slightly longer as I'm only about 200 metres from the Kent border.

I haven't got any photos of the rye, but it just looks like a cereal grain that's a darker brown than wheat or barley. It seems to do the soil some good, and it grows tall and outcompetes weeds very well which is helpful in my system. When I get going again I'll take some photos.

I have cut rye several times, very long straw and heavy grain. Get it fit and it thrashes very easily, but I expect it is badly laid and sometimes will only cut one way, if the heads are in the drum before the knife has got to the end of the straw.
I wonder if the stripping rotor has a blockage if the drive has still not started, even walker blockage, may indicate a serious breakdown somewhere
 

New Puritan

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East Sussex
I wonder if the stripping rotor has a blockage if the drive has still not started, even walker blockage, may indicate a serious breakdown somewhere

Groan.

In words a simpleton can understand, what's the stripping rotor? I can imagine what it does, but whereabouts is it, and roughly what does it look like? The walkers don't seem to be blocked, I've had a good look around there.

Happily the crop is not laid at all yet, though if I don't get this sorted soon I'm sure it will be...
 

Exfarmer

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Bury St Edmunds
The stripping rotor is the secondary drum behind the main one which strips the straw off and chucks it on to the walkers.
I am not overly conversant with Claas machines but I think the internals on all earlier machines are very similar.
Some of these secondary drum did have some form of concave not sure on your machine
 

New Puritan

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East Sussex
Thanks @Exfarmer - that's helpful. I will investigate more tomorrow morning and see what's happening, though I have a tyre to change over first just to add to the fun. The rye I am growing is probably not much over a meter tall, so nothing like the stuff you were growing, which sounds challenging (though possibly less challenging than growing the variety I am, with such a ropey old combine to cut it).
 

jamesy

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Orkney
Once drum is turning freely via bar through casting take a gander round, if the walkers aren’t going fast enough that can cause the drum to block up for no obvious reason.... could be a slack/knackered belt for the walkers
 

Exfarmer

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Bury St Edmunds
The worst was the 625 .... hideous , unreliable pile of :poop: @Cowabunga
I was very shy of going from MF combines to a JD. We had the MF dealer 2 miles away, the JD 20 miles, they also had perhaps not the best reputation with the sales manager , shall we say difficult.
Eventually the JD dealer made an offer we could not refuse, I could not believe after the first season how little we required a mechanic
 

David.

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J11 M40
My wife's father had a 625, I always thought it a really good machine, never a green stripe and easy 20ac days.
However, we were using an 8'6" 400 at the time, which truly was crap.
 
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