Do you wash your combine

My staff constantly pester me to wash the combine, at the begining of the season.

I refuse it gets blown down with air line & thats it. So we have a scruffy combine but wipe away the dust, the paint work is like new.

Chains all soaked with chain spray before storage, grease bearing, paint oil onto any shiny metal & diseal tank filled

I should slacken belts & chains, sorry I don't.

What do you do?
 

robs1

Member
Blow it down, make sure there is no grain or chaff left anywhere in it, oil and run all chains, oil all shiny bits, dont fill it with fuel though, wash it off before using next year on a hot sunny day.
Same with the baler although not done it yet, washed off both mowers this time as last few fields had lots of mole hills in
 

David.

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
Blow out everything with leafblower in last field
Blow out properly when more time with airline and wash panels with lorry brush on a nice drying windy day.
Oil shiny bits, grease up, and run up at least once a month all winter to keep belts and pulleys fresh.
Not keen on having 600 litres if fuel tied up all winter:oops:...
 

Zippy768

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dorset/Wilts
I have done both in the past. The trouble I find with only blowing it down before storing, is that when doing all the maintenance pre-harvest one is working on a dirty machine.

Also it depends how much time the combine has spent out in the field once harvest has finished. Once dirt, chaff and grains get wet - it doesn't blow off very well
 
I have done both in the past. The trouble I find with only blowing it down before storing, is that when doing all the maintenance pre-harvest one is working on a dirty machine.

Also it depends how much time the combine has spent out in the field once harvest has finished. Once dirt, chaff and grains get wet - it doesn't blow off very well

I'm spoilt any slight shower, back in the shed.
 

DanniAgro

Member
So diseal, always told to keep tank full to stop damp air condensing in the tank & causing corrosion in the tank. So water & muck in fuel.
?

On the other hand modern diseal has a bio diseal content which can go mouldy?
That's what I was taught - keep the tank topped up to stop condensation causing water droplets that corrode the tank, which is what I do. You'd better use an additive to control the effects of biodiesel, and top it up despite what others say.
 

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