Claas dominator 106 settings

[Nae bother]

Having a nightmare with Spring barley this year with getting our 106 to give a clean sample and don't let any barley go over the tail,we have had all the sieves in every position and wasting a lot of time so thought I'd ask on here for some advice,thanks in advance as always.

 

[JD6920s]

Have you got the disawner plates in?
Also check that you haven’t got any holes in the concave, or a couple of wires missing.
How much are you putting through the returns?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Is it ripe ? That is the first question
As said disawner plates in ?
Is the presentation table clean ?
Walkers clean ?
Try a wider riddle setting and more wind.
Take it drum bars and concave are ok, shut concave right up, and a slower drum speed, but keep it feeding full if you can
Curtain behind the drum ok ?

 

[David.]

The Planet I cut yesterday had straw like heavy wet rags, had to rein it back a bit to avoid walker losses.
I never found disawner plates very useful, just effectively blocking third of the concave.
Bit more drum speed and close it a tad, and just try going a bit slower.
Losses usually come from walkers first.

 

[oil barron]

Having a nightmare with Spring barley this year with getting our 106 to give a clean sample and don't let any barley go over the tail,we have had all the sieves in every position and wasting a lot of time so thought I'd ask on here for some advice,thanks in advance as always.

Diablo?

 

[Nae bother]

Sassy.

 

[fermerboy]

Having a nightmare with Spring barley this year with getting our 106 to give a clean sample and don't let any barley go over the tail,we have had all the sieves in every position and wasting a lot of time so thought I'd ask on here for some advice,thanks in advance as always.

The Claas achillies heel, grain in the straw. Our 96 is the same, neighbours Tucano is too, the Lexion I bale behind, the bales are full of grain, its always the straw, never usually over the sieves unless its steep. Got to get the bales in before they turn green!!
The usual problem is the barley is needing all its time to be ready, see you are in the same bit of the world as us, so expect its really needing a few more days, which isn't so easy up here sometimes.

Is it thrashing the crop clean or leaving grain still on the head?

Disawner plates engaged or not?
Drum and concave worn?
Concave will likely be bowed a bit, so what clearance? Tighten up the concave a hole, will smash up the straw a bit more but not so much grain for the walkers to throw out.
Walkers clean? seen ours fill up with yavins? (awns for our southern friends)
Agitator tines above walkers working properly?
She hittting the right RPM? seen one that run a little slow on the engine, and it didn't thrash worth a crap, run ok but the walkers weren't throwing the stuff about so well.
The experts will tell you to go harder, keep the drum full so its doing the thrashing in there, but on ours that doesn't work, she needs time to shake the grain out.

 

[Om352]

The Planet I cut yesterday had straw like heavy wet rags, had to rein it back a bit to avoid walker losses.
I never found disawner plates very useful, just effectively blocking third of the concave.
Bit more drum speed and close it a tad, and just try going a bit slower.
Losses usually come from walkers first.

 

[Om352]

Is it ripe ? That is the first question
As said disawner plates in ?
Is the presentation table clean ?
Walkers clean ?
Try a wider riddle setting and more wind.
Take it drum bars and concave are ok, shut concave right up, and a slower drum speed, but keep it feeding full if you can
Curtain behind the drum ok ?

 

[Om352]

All of the above and it goes without saying that having clean grain in the returns is a great way to have it tumble out with the straw. I think returns grain just sits on a mat going back through the drum and even harder to shake it out a second time.

 

[Gapples]

It's mostly been covered but I'll just repeat it, are the drum & concave worn ? Is the concave badly bowed ?
Are the drum rasp bars so worn they've become almost bald & are sharp ?
Is the basic setting of the Drum/concave gapping right.
Does the drum speed get up to 1500 rpm.

Next is the curtain behind the concave in 1 piece, if ripped up the grain gets thrown too far back on the prep pan floor.
The prep pan floor, is it clean ? If it's full of crap you'll never get an even feed of grain onto the sieves.

As for walker losses, are the walkers clean, I've seen them near half blocked with barley arns.
Are all the IS tines still on ?
Are the walkers running at 220 ( -5 ) rpm
Get these bits right & the rest will usually fall into place, forward speed, fan speed etc.