Know your machinery parts?
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Intro
The Ag Connect Expo, held January 8-10 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, featured leading agricultural machinery manufacturers from around the world. Exhibitors included the major, well-known brands, as well as a large complement of lesser known manufacturers who supply components for farm equipment.
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Components on display are used in all major agricultural machinery. In the first photo of this slideshow, first look at a close-up view of the component. Guess its name and function, and maybe even the company that made it.
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Tough enough
What kind of equipment is “toughened” by this part?
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“Three-piece suit.” Sarah Gensler, GBGI, Inc., is holding a hub and spindle assembly for tillage equipment, featuring a new precision three-piece seal.
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Tough for tillage
It’s a disc, of course, but for what type of tillage?
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Going vertical
Ingersoll Tillage Group’s new SoilRazor disc features a saw-tooth cutting edge that’s designed for deep soil penetration and cutting through tough crop residue. The disc is being used by Krause, Sunflower, Alamo and other companies.
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Getting control
This tool is touted for reducing wear and tear on a tractor? What is it?
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Hitch it up
Jim Rogus, Terrog Manufacturing shows off his company’s articulating implement hitch. “It takes the backlash out of the hitch and provides more precise control,” he says.
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Get in gear
A typical use for this part?
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Rick Carr, Superior Gearbox Company, says one use for the item is the apron drive for a live-bottom trailer. It runs the conveyor belt at the bottom of the trailer. “[The gearbox] changes direction or changes the speed of power,” he says.
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Banjo man
Meet “Banjo Man.” What’s he made of?
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Flexible
Banjo Corporation makes flange connection parts for liquid handling. The pieces provide a positive seal and allow you to orient the fitting in any position, says Scott McDonald, Banjo sales manager. Deere, Case, AGCO and other manufacturers of large self-propelled sprayers use the product.
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Hard facing
What type of machinery would use these parts?
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Kondex Corporation supplies a mix of cutting components and high-wear parts for the harvesting equipment industry, selling disk mower knives, straw chopper blades and other parts to the major manufacturers, says Keith Johnson, Kondex manager of engineering.
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Olympic rings?
These special materials are used in what parts of a tractor?
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Getting power
Ortlinghaus, a German company, makes parts for tractors, including this PTO clutch. The company make its own “special materials” for clutches, brakes and plates, company representatives say.
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‘In every machine’
Components from Comer Industries “are in just about every machine,” says Bruce Kepley with the company. An easy part to identify?
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Much in the mix
Comer’s agricultural wheel drive is just one of a number of parts that Comer has designed for CNH.
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Faster, Inc.
Can you guess what these components accomplish on a machine?
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Faster Incorporated’s quick disconnects are a unique technology for connecting under pressure. They’re shown here on a new Vermeer trailed mower.
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International parts
Turkey, Italy, France, China and Germany were some of the countries represented in the components displays at AG CONNECT.
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Pumping away
Jimmy Wang, SDH Hydraulic, Shanghai, China, shows off his company’s specialty, hydraulic gear pumps. These will be used in tractors built around the world.
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All the way from Italy
Can you guess the nature of these parts?
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“They’re flow meters for measuring aggressive chemicals in spraying equipment,” says Howard Boyden, a U.S. representative for Polmac.