Supplemental heat on a combine.

[furrowtickler]

how many of you have DEF issues? Even after warming the combine up to running temp that f%cking DEF was still throwing code errors ( ie to cold to build up pressure, etc). the DEF tank has an internal heater, and i would make sure not to have more than 10 gallons in each night so that it would warm up more quickly. Only way to clear the computer errors is to have a service call. Technician said he had steady business. Only solution is to park in a heated shop each night. DEF delete will be installed next year.

It’s frustrating to have immensely expensive downtime and very costly repairs to DEF systems and then still be faced with carbon tax on top of all this . And they wonder why most farmers hate the carbon tax for that simple fact alone .
And then on top of it have people who say they farm wag their fingers at those of us using these systems in machinery to prevent pollution but don’t have that tech on their own “farms” or machinery ...
Do as I say not as I do .... lol

[bucket]

Sent my wonderful wife to get DEF one day .....after finishing explaining it to her ...the response was.....that's just stupid....yup...

So we buy fuel and then spend more to burn the fuel at the exhaust...and she was shutdown with codes on the combine one night....

All I was told is that it's stupid....

yes dear I know...

...""""shut up you are stupid for putting up with this shit,,,"""

Yes dear....

There is a fix for this nonsense. ...let our wives have a sit-down with McKenna. ...

[fjlip]

Sent my wonderful wife to get DEF one day .....after finishing explaining it to her ...the response was.....that's just stupid....yup...

So we buy fuel and then spend more to burn the fuel at the exhaust...and she was shutdown with codes on the combine one night....

All I was told is that it's stupid....

yes dear I know...

...""""shut up you are stupid for putting up with this shit,,,"""

Yes dear....

There is a fix for this nonsense. ...let our wives have a sit-down with McKenna. ...

Tell her she is making husbands CRAZY, wrecking marriages! F*CK her tax!

[6V53]

Gleaner with deutz diesel and a plasma cutter should be ready for experiment in less than an hour. Maybe some flex pipe for the exhaust.

[helmsdale]

Move the radiator to underneath combine ahead of the cleaning fan would probably work. Though there is alot of cfm and wind required in the shoe the restriction and keeping the rad clean would become the next hurdle.

If you could get a tin banger to duct air from the engine bay to the cleaning fan intake may prove more practical. What that might look like though, yikes.

That's sort of what I'm thinking...

Place a second set of wide core radiators and something to keep them cleaned off in front of the cleaning fan, and you could even get a bit of a power bump by killing your engine compartment fan.

Not necessarily ducting air coming out of the engine compartment, but physically relocating the cooling system.

As farma said though... everything would be a liquid then and likely end up mixing with the grain and making it tougher rather than expelling it out the back. Hard to know whether water droplets would be small enough to blow out with the chaff, or large enough to drop through the sieves.

[helmsdale]

Gleaner with deutz diesel and a plasma cutter should be ready for experiment in less than an hour. Maybe some flex pipe for the exhaust.

Exhaust never entered my mind, but yes that's yet another source of heat.

[biglentil]

Frost fighter and small generator hanging off back of header, sock under the feader house. On off switch right in the cab. Bet it could be set up in under 15 minutes. Not sure if you would want to run it all the time or just a 5 min dethaw every hour or whatever.

One gallon of diesel has 147k btus of energy. Lets say you avg 15g/hr thats 2.2m btu's. Typical diesel is 40% efficient, 35% is waste heat mainly handled by the Rad, in a turboed diesel exhaust about 25%. So a 350k frost fighter would give you the same approx amount of heat as pumping in the exhaust.

[TOM4CWB]

Frost fighter and small generator hanging off back of header, sock under the feader house. On off switch right in the cab. Bet it could be set up in under 15 minutes. Not sure if you would want to run it all the time or just a 5 min dethaw every hour or whatever.

One gallon of diesel has 147k btus of energy. Lets say you avg 15g/hr thats 2.2m btu's. Typical diesel is 40% efficient, 35% is waste heat mainly handled by the Rad, in a turboed diesel exhaust about 25%. So a 350k frost fighter would give you the same approx amount of heat as pumping in the exhaust.

Just spent 2 days doing straight cut frozen Canola. Heat is Bad. Doing harvest last night down to -23... no plugged sieves. Frost ends up as ice crystals in Canola. Dryer fixes that when that time comes... Canola safe if frozen until it thaws. RV antifreeze can help stop freezing of chaffer... but waited till noon and frost burned off today so no ice in standing Canola... 13% moisture...afternoon got back up to -4 and went through great lots of dust . Swaths are bad now... blown around machine wreckers... straw too tough... can see why straight cutters go with antipod shatter if not lodged bad works great... good yields being harvested. Close to 300ac done... takes lots of power... make sure to prevent slug feeding. Cheers

[biglentil]

Just spent 2 days doing straight cut frozen Canola. Heat is Bad. Doing harvest last night down to -23... no plugged sieves. Frost ends up as ice crystals in Canola. Dryer fixes that when that time comes... Canola safe if frozen until it thaws. RV antifreeze can help stop freezing of chaffer... but waited till noon and frost burned off today so no ice in standing Canola... 13% moisture...afternoon got back up to -4 and went through great lots of dust . Swaths are bad now... blown around machine wreckers... straw too tough... can see why straight cutters go with antipod shatter if not lodged bad works great... good yields being harvested. Close to 300ac done... takes lots of power... make sure to prevent slug feeding. Cheers

Only had to do 10 acres of standing conola with snow on the ground. Im wrapped up. Make sure you are using propylene glycol and not ethylene glycol.
GL everyone!