cleaning combines

[j hikemper]

should finish last 20 acres of beans tomorow or monday ,.gonna cleanout the 750 mf and put her to bed ,..lot of trash above the fan mill that has probably been there since my bro owned it 8 yrs ago.. any tips on cleaning and varmit proofing would be helpful ,,i once found a 5ft cow snake in the gleaner f ..those machines are difficult to clean, there are so many cavities that are impossible to find and get too ,...it only takes me 1 hour to clean up the massey 300s ... if i wash i make sure i do not direct water into bearings
 

[Tech 7]

For about the last 10 or so years we have used an industrial air compressor for cleaning combines and round balers. LOTS of air volume. Some customers only want them blown out, on the others that want them washed and waxed, the blowing makes the wet cleaning go 10 times faster.
 

[Ralph Bauer]

I'd leave the snake .... better than cabfresh or bounty sheets!!
Ralph in OK.
 

[jr. bradley]

if you power wash it you should run the machine a least 15 minutes afterwards to get the moisture out of the bearings
 

[Paul from MI]

I use a leaf blower to clean mine. Really works good and gets all the loose chaff off.
 

[R Wyler]

I know I don"t know any of any help here but I use about a 3ft steel tube extention about 1/4" or so and use 120 pounds air presssure. The little A Gleaner is easy enough to clean except cleaning out under the raddle false bottom taks a while. It is not a fun task. I also hate cleaning cleaning out the finger drums.
 

[rusty6]

[Jim in Sask]

I used to use a leaf blower which worked well. Now I have a 3-in. hose with an adapter plate that I use on the discharge of my grain vac. Lot more volume than the leaf blower, I run the vac at about half normal operating speed. I open up all covers, etc. to let the air get in everywhere. Afterwards I vacuum the hopper, auger troughs, etc. If the weather is real warm it gets washed but often it's too cool to do it in the fall. After washing it gets run for a while, then a complete greasing. Moth balls in the cab for over winter, haven't had mouse problems in years.