A good time to look back on the growing season is while you give your combine a thorough postharvest inspection. Think about it this way: While you’re considering ways to improve next year’s crops, you’re taking steps to help ensure you do a better job harvesting those improvements.
Combine maintenance is one of the best ways to prevent in-harvest breakdowns. Worn components increase grain damage and decrease combine efficiency. Replacing worn parts is an excellent way to reduce grain loss, too. In fact, mechanical settings potentially are the biggest contributing factors to harvest loss.1
Inspect your machine now, while any issues are fresh in your mind. Your operators manual is the best place to start. Your Case IH dealer also can provide guidance — or handle it completely as part of a Case IH Certified Maintenance Inspection. Here are some top wear points that deserve your attention:
- Corn and grain headers: gathering chains, snap rollers, sickle sections, auger fingers
- Feeder chains: slats, chain rollers, chain tension
- Threshing components: rasp bars, concaves, other threshing components
- Clean-grain handling system: primarily auger flighting
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