If my pictures of the hopper were called the belly of the beast we'll just call these "the inards of the beast":
(Keep in mind I took these pictures while inside the combine laying upside down on top of the sieves and the rails while installing the chopper blades, by the way those rails are not very comfortable to lay on)

At the top of this photo you are seeing the concaves which are around the rotor where the threshing occurs, underneath it are the augers that feed what falls through the concaves to the sieves.
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee53/Rickpierson1/Combine/P1010311.jpg

This is the chopper, the blades mount in just about where my head is and stick up through slots in that metal shelf like bar between me and the chopper
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee53/Rickpierson1/Combine/P1010314.jpg

Another shot of the chopper, the blades come through those slots in the bottom
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee53/Rickpierson1/Combine/P1010313.jpg

In the upper left you can see one of the augers from the first picture, at the bottom is the seive where the grains are separated from everything else. The seives shake back and forth, kinda like panning for gold and with the price and rarity of soybeans on Deno's farm this year it ain't much different than gold!
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee53/Rickpierson1/Combine/P1010312.jpg

P.S. those rails are not comfortable to lay on. These will be the last of the pictures from a Case/IH 2188, Friday Deno's 2588 arrives and maybe (if lucky) we'll get some pictures of that new machine before the end of this month.

Now there's some pictures you won't see every day. I see what you're talking about those rails being uncomfortable.

um, yea Bird gets a vote from me for those pics......I don't think I would be in there, plus it doesn't look so comfortable!

Very good example of a farmin pics!

All the way in there and they still found ya huh, lol cool pics, but I don't think you were in there just for the photo's was ya?

I woulda made sure I had the key in MY pocket....

I woulda made sure I had the key in MY pocket....

In his pocket? lol......Look at his pocket again? :confused: Looksl like it could slip out into the bottomless pit......lol

Better the bottomless pit, than me turning to burger...

True......

If it would have turned on it would have been dusty and noisy bt I wouldn't have been chewed to bits. There were threee guys down there that day, me, the owner and another guy. Sometimes you just gotta trust those you work with.

Man, I thought about it, but Mrs. Bird is too young to be a widow. LOL

Deno I'll be down in the morning to take more pictures of this part to explain some things better.

I think you did a great job educating folks! I especially appreciate that you took the time to show folks the "other" side of farming that is dirty, uncomfortable, hard..etc... Bet you guys are excited about the new one coming..I take it you guys are having the sam esoybean problem as hald of southern IL..no beans or just one or two little scrawny ones? Noticed Sunday in the bottoms near Jacob..lots of beean laying down what the heck happened to them?

Deno is pretty excited about the new machine, he's been talking about it for a few years but I'm not even getting into what put him over the edge into buying a new one. Lets just say I learned an awerul lot more about a combine yesterday than he had planned to teach me.

Yes, same problem. But when beans are only knee high, with nothing in them, they won't go down.
Very excited about the new one, but luck would it, it rained , so won't be able to use it.
Darn the luck

Even if I don't get pictures of his new one this month I'll still put photos of it on here under this theme for all to enjoy.

Yes, same problem. But when beans are only knee high, with nothing in them, they won't go down.
Very excited about the new one, but luck would it, it rained , so won't be able to use it.
Darn the luck


You mean this new machine isn't going to have a grain drier in it? I told ya you should stay away from junk and go with one of those Massey Ferguson machines!