I spent many years working with a combine harvester manufacturer in Europe, and then more years travelling around eastern England assessing grain losses on various makes of combine. As has been said, 2% to 5% is the average through the combine and many farmers, do not know what that looks like. We used a wire frame 12 inches by 12 inches placed in the swath behind the combine then counted to grains in the frame. If a farmer saw more that 10 to 12 grains he would start complaining about losing grain but, on average, that number of grains worked out at about 1/4%. We had a series of boards with grains stuck on them to demonstrate what a grain loss of 2% looked like and most farmers were horrified.
The greatest area of combine loss was from dropped heads at the cutter bar and shelled out grain from the reel. Another area was from trying to get too clean a sample and overloading the returns system leading to a trail of grain from either the sieve pan or the straw walkers depending where the returns were fed back into the machine.
With the advent of straw choppers and spreaders most people do not check grain loss even though they have monitors. Monitors are only as good as the operator who adjusts them. I met many operators who believed that, if he adjusted the monitor to show no grain loss, he was doing a good job no matter how much was going over the back.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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