8820 chaffer frame

[fdt860]

I bought a fixxer up 8820 (actully exchanged engine rebuilt and trans swaps for it).

That combine has chaffer frame broken and is on his second. I found a donor combine with a useable frame, but it had been aldo reinforced at the rear mounts.

I found that green cabbed 8820s have the shake 20% faster and most of them have issues with sieves, chaffer and chaffer frames.

I am planning on fitting the slower sprocket from earlier version.
Any toughts?


I always wanted a 8820 so I could compare it by myself with the Massey 860 that I have.
So far, it seems that the Massey has many things bettee than the Deere, but i have not yet been in the field.

 

[cornerpost]

Guy in our area did a lot of custom work in corn and soybeans
with 8820s back in the day. He claimed in corn the kernels
especially if large went through sieves better with the slower
speed sprocket. If you take a kitchen sieve shake it too fast
and material goes through slower.

 

[GreenEnvy]

Back in the day we had a grey cab 760 which was basically
the 860 with shorter walkers. We bought it new in 1979 and
ran it 4 year before trading to a used 8820. Its no
comparison the JD was the better combine. The 8820 was
built heavier with better metallurgy. The 760 had about the
same hours as the 8820. Yet the auger flighting on the 760
was razor thin and the bottom of the feederhouse was almost
wore through. The auger flighting on the 8820 showed hardly
any wear. Just compare the weights of a Massey combine to
a JD. There is a reason JD always cost more. Because they
had more steel built into them.

Plus the 760 didnt have them cheap sealed bearings that kept
going out, or that stupid paddle feederhouse with all them
chains and sprockets wearing out all the time or that
rethresher that would implode if you got a rock in it. It was a
good day when the 760 went down the road.

Now we did trade the 8820 for a Titan 2 or green cab 8820
later on and we did have the shoe frame shake apart on us.
So we got a new one and installed the older slower sprocket.
Problem solved. I have neighbor with a green cab 8820 that
still has the fast sprocket. Hes never hade any problems but
he did change out the bushings every other year.

 

[Tech 7]

I think that the TitanII had a larger chaffer and frame than the earlier version. They will not swap

 

[larryanderson]

I had a new TitanII 8820.We put slow down sprocket on right away as the dealer said it was a problem.We has a 400 bu Windom tank and flotation tires and probably had less problems with that combine than any of the newer ones we have had since.I know of some that replaced sieves and finally slowed them down.

 

[SVcummins]

We just demoed a John Deere sprayer and an agco the deere had a lot bigger and heavier parts rams and castings than the agco .