Combine Combined

Getting three combines ready for harvest is an interesting kind of chaos.  It is like when you start to clean your basement and you just keep finding more stuff you need to clean.  Only instead of cleaning it's replacing parts and instead of cleaning supplies it's $100 ball bearings other expensive stuff.  So by the time we were done we completely rebuilt the front end of two of our combines. 

When "cleaning" this combine we found a crack in one of the wheels.  So we had to take it off so we could weld it up, and put it back on.

After ordering a ton of parts, then I made it my job to become the parts librarian.  So after some dewy decimation, I had them organized and ready to install.

All in all I think we replaced over 50 ball bearings, 10 chains, 5 belts and a bunch of other things with green paint on them. 

-Combine Part Librarian Ryan