Re: How I combine small grains

Posted by centash on October 16, 2016 at 11:05:35 from (67.21.105.136):

In Reply to: Re: How I combine small grains posted by Case Nutty 1660 on October 16, 2016 at 07:55:38:

All combine settings are a series of compromises. If you are getting a perfect sample in the bin , then you are blowing small light sets out. If you have zero losses out the back, then you will have small seeds ot lihgt trash in the bin.The seeds in the fields vary greatly in size and simply cannot be perfectly harvested in any combine. If a winter wheat sample here in Ontario had small light seeds in it, it would be docked for fusarium or some other disease. Whilst I cannot judge the wheat sample above by a picture, wild oat seed in a sample here would be rejected or severely docked. This year in our soys, there was about a bushel to the acre on the ground before we pulled in with the combine. The sample was still 17 percent moisture, the top of the plant was brittle dry, but the bottom 6 inches was tough and green. Simply walking through the field shelled numerous beans from the pod. Cutter bar losses were easily 2 or 3 percent because so many bean pods simply burst open when cut or pulled in by the reel. The sample was mediocre at best due to the green pods
Fortunately, these were crusher beans, so dockage at the elevator was zero, since they had to go through the drier and a surcharge was made then to account for foreign material. Leaving the beans in the field to dry down more would result in even higher shatter losses. So, we compromised... pay a bit of drying, save as many years beans as we could, get the crop off in a timely matter to get the following winter wheat crop in the ground by an optimum date to give it the best chance for next year's crop. Every load
I saw dumped at the elevator looked like mine, some better some worse. Every crop and every combine, if it has a good operator, will have to make some compromises at harvest. There is no such thing as a perfectly uniform crop, so the combine is set to do the best it can on the most of the crop. Just my humble opinion. Ben

Replies:

• Re: How I combine small grains Case Nutty 1660 13:13:30 10/16/16 (1)
  • Re: How I combine small grains centash 17:44:40 10/16/16 (0)

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