Accord tineseeder

[7800]

Our 6m accord TS has a habit of not seeding for a few metres midway across the field. No alarms go off, and you don’t realise at the time but see it when the wheat comes up. Bit like a skylark plot !
Have had metering unit off and sent back to Andy guest but it still does it , any ideas ? As it’s very annoying!

 

[David.]

Dodgy bearing in land wheel stopping occasionally, landwheel dropping low in furrow or something and causing drive shaft to bottom on frame and stop turning momentarily.
Assume only one metering unit; not like old DL Tandems which had solenoid operated clutch on drives, which played up here once making crop of spring OSR look like chess board from the air.

 

[7800]

Fairly sure the alarm goes off if landwheel stops. It’s only one metering unit with no clutch

 

[Skylark]

When it restarts do you get a thicker patch of crop for a few feet? If so would that suggest that the crop is still being metered but not being delivered for some reason? If not then agree that it sounds more like a metering issue - do any of the drive shafts have the opportunity to slip in any way such as square box going more rounded or something?

 

[7800]

When it restarts do you get a thicker patch of crop for a few feet? If so would that suggest that the crop is still being metered but not being delivered for some reason? If not then agree that it sounds more like a metering issue - do any of the drive shafts have the opportunity to slip in any way such as square box going more rounded or something?

No it’s not thicker for a few feet so think it’s the metering unit, can’t see anything obvious wrong with it

 

[Surgery]

Dodgy bearing in land wheel stopping occasionally, landwheel dropping low in furrow or something and causing drive shaft to bottom on frame and stop turning momentarily.
Assume only one metering unit; not like old DL Tandems which had solenoid operated clutch on drives, which played up here once making crop of spring OSR look like chess board from the air.

Second this , get the odd clod come back up on itself and jam i between the wheel and the frame for just long enough that the alarm does not go off.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

We had a very similar issue on a landwheel driven seeder unit (not an Accord but v. similar, and just made the landwheel support heavier by adding a section of RHS to it. That fixed the issue; imagine, as above, that it was just momentary slippage of the landwheel stopping it seeding.

Direct driven through a flexi tube like a portable shearing machine would have.

 

[David.]

You don't take in horse-muck do you?

 

[fastfish]

Second this , get the odd clod come back up on itself and jam i between the wheel and the frame for just long enough that the alarm does not go off.

Or stone

 

[7800]

Second this , get the odd clod come back up on itself and jam i between the wheel and the frame for just long enough that the alarm does not go off.[/QUO

yes think this is whats happening, it gets going again before alarm has time to sound

 

[foxbox]

Second this , get the odd clod come back up on itself and jam i between the wheel and the frame for just long enough that the alarm does not go off.

Our TS Evo will go just far enough down the field for you to be sure the neighbours have seen you reversing before it goes off so agree that temporary stops could cause it!

 

[trajan16]

Might be worth checking the cog that drives micro metering, our KRM has an internal roll pin that drives the cog and it had started to slip, giving erratic results.