Dan Anderson

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Understand how combine components interact to do a better job.
Insurance companies that offer coverage for “rock damage” to combines often require claims be submitted within six weeks of the end of harvest.
My only conclusion is that machines can secretly talk to each other via some sort of long-distance mechanical telepathy.
Whether you call it slugged, plugged or wadded-up, a combine jammed with weeds or damp crop is enough to make a preacher cuss. Here are tips to minimize your frustration and downtime.
Does the sequence in which a jam nut and a standard nut are installed make a difference? Definitely.
Here are some quick facts about the right ways to ensure nuts and bolts don’t come loose.
Winter is when we usually worry about batteries, but it’s frustrating how many batteries in machines turn up dead after a summer of sitting in the shed.
Under dusty conditions some operators blow out their air filters daily, while others extend the interval with the attitude that, “A dusty filter cleans air better than a clean filter.”
Ever-larger farm equipment requires ever-larger tools with ever-larger price tags.
Study the physics, do the math, and a 40-gallon compressed air tank pressurized to 100 psi has the explosive power of a stick of dynamite.