All States Ag Parts

Fall harvest is around the corner. Before you hit the field, give your combine a once-over with this 12-point checklist. Clean the machine of dust and dirt for better operation and to help spot wear and potential problems. Attach headers to combine and make sure they are opperational, checking height and contour controls. On the grain table header, inspect sickle blades and guards, inspect teeth in augers and reel. On the corn head, inspect gathering chains, sprockets and adjust width of stripper plates. Check and adjust drive chains. Remember: Row-unit gearboxes operate as mini-transmissions and need to be checked once a year. Refill with grease or oil depending on age and brand of corn head. Check all belts for wear and replace as needed. Check all chains and bearings for wear; replace chains that can’t be adjusted or tensioned correctly. For axial combines, inspect rotor and concave, checking wires for damage and bars for wear. Check unloading system auger. If edges a...

On the drive to work this morning, I saw a couple of corn fields that are starting to show signs of drying down. It won't be long before the combines are rolling here in Central Iowa and other parts of the country. What a perfect time to talk about feederhouse chain. It seems to us that most feeder chains were designed in Fred Flintstone's day. They are heavy and cause premature wear on the drive mechanism and feeder house bottom. They often wear out sprockets and stretch chains prematurely because of their weight. The slats are virtually impossible to straighten and because they are riveted, you are almost forced into buying a new feeder chain every time a slat bends. At All States Ag Parts we offer a better solution in feederhouse chain. Our Feeder Chain will handle today's larger crops, improve feeding, last longer and reduce maintenance costs. It all starts with 557 chain. With heavier rollers and side links it will outlast the original chain by hundreds...

August 23, 2011 ROTARY CONCAVES Although a rotary combine uses a rotor instead of a cylinder and even if the concaves do look a bit different, the concaves on conventional and rotary combines both have to perform the same two functions--threshing and separating.   To allow for threshing and separation in different crops you can use wide wire or narrow wire concaves or any combination. Round bar concaves are also available.   All States Ag Parts carries precison bored concaves so they fit better and are easier to properly adjust. The wire holes are drilled with state of the art, computer controlled, multiple head drills. This ensures the precision alignment of holes, and a snug wire fit. With an All States Ag Parts precision built concave there's no wire-to-hole gap to trap straw.  Rotary combines are achieving very high capacity figures. Along with higher capacities, rotary combines tend to have higher wear factors. To help control...

August 23, 2011 - As farmers throughout the midwest start preparing for this fall's corn and soybean harvest, I thought I'd take this opportunity to talk a little about plastic sieves. Plastic louvered sieves have been on the market for several years with several brands of sieves available . Unfortunately, not all brands are created equally and buyers must be wary of inferior brands. At All States Ag Parts we carry a Canadian brand, and feel this is the cream of the crop as far as quality goes.   There are several advantages to installing a plastic sieve in your combine. The most important to me is the ability to replace the plastic louvers should a louver become damaged. Unlike the old metal louvers that bend and break, plastic louvers are flexible and pop back in place should a rock or other foreign object go through your combine. Even if you have the misfortune of breaking one of the louvers they are easily replaceable. Here's some additional advantages o...

We often hear from customers that are pleased with the service that our outstanding staff provides to customers throughout North America. Typically, we don't brag about these instances publicly because we want you to have the experience for yourself, rather than telling you how great your All States Ag Parts experience is going to be. However,  in this case, I wanted to share a letter that came in this week from a new friend in Australia. It not only gave me a sense of pride in All States Ag Parts, but in America too! Dear Sir, I am a sugar cane farmer in North Queensland Australia who needed a part of the hitch assembly for a 8970 New Holland tractor. For reasons I wont go into, I didn't have any luck sourcing the part in Australia so upon searching the web I decided to give All States a ring. Just by chance I rang the Fort Atkinson branch in Iowa. To my surprise on the other end of the line I noticed an accent similar to my own, Richard Keel he said his name was. ...

All States Ag Parts continues to post significant sales increases, year after year....even this year in times of a tough economy. How does this happen? Well, for starters, we have an outstanding staff, a great selection of product and we always stand behind our product. Check out this posting from another web site, DieselPlace.com, that I happened to run across when doing some research. http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=261092 Thanks to our staff in Downing, WI that always does things right!

Downing Tractor Parts recently hosted seventeen Wisconsin State Future Farmers of America Officers, a National FFA Advisor and a National Board of Directors member. Downing Tractor Parts is one of 7 tractor and combine salvage yards owned by All States Ag Parts. Dan Hellendrung, store manager, led a tour of the Downing facilities and salvage yard. Hellendrung fielded questions about All States Ag Parts and how the recent farm economy has impacted his location. Hellendrung also visited with students about the job opportunities in the ag sector, and more specifically, opportunities with All States Ag Parts. Each of the FFA members received gift certificates to be used in FFA fundraising events and a Downing Tractor Parts hat.