Any better than chains?

**Guest** · Sep 10, 2018, 06:58

never saw it here's, looks like a good idea if it doesn't slip? I wonder what keeps it straight ? we have one jump a tooth every once in a while and run crooked

**Ache4Acres** · Sep 10, 2018, 07:06

Wow interesting

I found a link, I think

http://www.agripress.nl/_STUDIOEMMA_UPLOADS/downloads/Presentation_silentium_drive_eng.pdf

**farmaholic** · Sep 10, 2018, 07:11

I don't think so... can you imagine how easy it would slip or tear in tough conditions. If it was such a good idea why isn't it being used already? Is it a serpentine or cogged belt?

MacDon has a v-belt molded into their canvases as a guide to keep them straight. But using belting on a feeder"belt" of a combine feeder housing seems inadequate....can you imagine what lumpy swaths would do to that thing. Would it ever stop stretching?

**biglentil** · Sep 10, 2018, 08:01

Inferior solution to a non problem. Chains just work!

**AlbertaFarmer5** · Sep 10, 2018, 08:21

Looks promising to me. I have nothing but trouble with feeder chains in wet or green straw. Yesterday, green stuff must have wrapped around the the drum or drive and derailed one set of feeder chains, then plugged, bent a bunch of bars, lots of fun to unplug when the chains are jammed. They derail regularly in tough conditions. Had the keeper pins wear through and come apart once, tried to run a feeder chain through the combine, that makes a mess.

I really miss MF combines with feeder paddles, or the old Versatiles with the same thing, trouble free.

**fjlip** · Sep 10, 2018, 09:06

If you are having that much trouble with feeder, crop is not fit to combine, stay home don't wreck stuff and your sanity.

**Guest** · Sep 10, 2018, 09:12

Originally posted by AlbertaFarmer5 View Post

Looks promising to me. I have nothing but trouble with feeder chains in wet or green straw. Yesterday, green stuff must have wrapped around the the drum or drive and derailed one set of feeder chains, then plugged, bent a bunch of bars, lots of fun to unplug when the chains are jammed. They derail regularly in tough conditions. Had the keeper pins wear through and come apart once, tried to run a feeder chain through the combine, that makes a mess.

I really miss MF combines with feeder paddles, or the old Versatiles with the same thing, trouble free.

I vividly remember cutting flax straw off of those paddles with a chain saw ! don't miss them at all, lol

**blackpowder** · Sep 10, 2018, 09:25

Almost certain that would not work here. Not sure about modernized paddles either.

**TASFarms** · Sep 10, 2018, 10:06

AlbertaFarmer5 What make is your combine?

Any better than chains?