New Holland TX 66 Cutting beans - slotted auger covers??

[MattEmmett]

We've got 40ac of winter beans to harvest this year, I've been told we need a some slotted covers for the straw elevator and the cross augers, are they really needed? Do they help to get a cleaner sample? If so does anybody have any for sale at all. Ive spoken to APH and Manners combine breakers. But interested what others think. Cheers. Matt Emmett

 

[Steevo]

Not worth it. Just leave elevator covers off on returns.

The covers only block up if you fit them anyway.

 

[ih1455xl]

Think harvest parts said he’d a 2nd hand one http://www.harvestpartsltd.co.uk/

 

[Two Tone]

They do help, but are not vital to use.

It depends on how much small weed seeds such as Fat Hen you have in the crop.

Your TX66 might already have the slotted hole bottom plate of the Straw elevator on it, but also has the flat plate above it for grain and rape.
If so, it will be hinged at the front and held up by two bolts either side an the back (about half way along the straw elevator). Undo these, let it drop and then remove the flat plate that Covers the slotted holes.

I reckon these do a better job than the slotted cross auger and grain/return elevator bottoms do in getting a cleaner sample.

Whatever happens, keep the fan speed (wind) up as high as possible for beans to help blow the crap off the sieves.

 

[Steevo]

They do help, but are not vital to use.

It depends on how much small weed seeds such as Fat Hen you have in the crop.

Your TX66 might already have the slotted hole bottom plate of the Straw elevator on it, but also has the flat plate above it for grain and rape.
If so, it will be hinged at the front and held up by two bolts either side an the back (about half way along the straw elevator). Undo these, let it drop and then remove the flat plate that Covers the slotted holes.

I reckon these do a better job that the slotted cross auger and grain/return elevator bottoms do in getting a cleaner sample.

Whatever happens, keep the fan speed (wind) up as high as possible for beans to help blow the crap off the sieves.

On my machine that slotted elevator cover is hard to put back again once undone. Is there a knack to it?

 

[Two Tone]

On my machine that slotted elevator cover is hard to put back again once undone. Is there a knack to it?

Yes I had that too. Generally a 4lb lump hammer did it with mine. But sometimes a trolley jack helped. It was a really tight fit getting those square bosses to go up enough to slide the bolts through.

It also had a central lever to stop it dropping more than a couple of inches when undoing it and knocking your knee caps off!

I found this very useful because I’d needed a tyre lever to prize it down in the first place.

You could try just grinding a little of the inside of the bosses to stop it being so tight. But I never got round to it on mine.

 

[Two Tone]

Not worth it. Just leave elevator covers off on returns.

The covers only block up if you fit them anyway.

If you are happy to do this, it is a good idea. It also means you wont need to fit the blind (unpegged) rotor rethresher plates for the returns.

 

[KB6930]

As above just let them swing open a lot less hassle

 

[Manny]

I think i have a set of cross auger covers and a bottom for the clean grain elevator it the parts container. I'll have a look when i get near it. They do help with small weed seeds and as said earlier on some TX combines there is a removable plate in the straw elevator.

 

[fermec860]

We used to have a set with holes in for the old 8070 since having the 66 we have the slotted ones but found they tend to break a lot of beans so don’t bother now

 

[Lincs Lass]

We used to put different covers on a tf42 for peas ,,they let the sand out before it got in the tank

 

[MattEmmett]

Thanks for all the replies, they’re pretty clean so hopefully won’t need to much, I’ll check if we have the slotted door on the straw elevator but I don’t think we do.

 

[MattEmmett]

I think i have a set of cross auger covers and a bottom for the clean grain elevator it the parts container. I'll have a look when i get near it. They do help with small weed seeds and as said earlier on some TX combines there is a removable plate in the straw elevator.

I think i have a set of cross auger covers and a bottom for the clean grain elevator it the parts container. I'll have a look when i get near it. They do help with small weed seeds and as said earlier on some TX combines there is a removable plate in the straw elevator.

Thanks, I’d be interested to see what you’ve got and what your asking for it.

 

[Steevo]

Thanks for all the replies, they’re pretty clean so hopefully won’t need to much, I’ll check if we have the slotted door on the straw elevator but I don’t think we do.

They may look clean now....but by the time the combine goes through I bet that will have changed.

 

[Renaultman]

They may look clean now....but by the time the combine goes through I bet that will have changed.

This rain is going to germinate a lot of weeds I just hope the beans can out compete them :-(