Posted by paul on October 24, 2023 at 04:07:18 from (66.60.209.84):
In Reply to: Combine operation posted by sourgum on October 23, 2023 at 12:09:48:
Consistency is best to get the combine to thrash the best through the cylinder part of the machine.
Headers can only take in so and so much material.
The separating area can only sort out so and so much material at a time.
You have to balance those three things for best results. You can do so by adjusting speed some.
If you mess up and get a big wad of crop through the cylinder part of the machine too fast you wad things up. I just spent an hour under my L3 with a reciprocating saw because I hit a patch of green rubbery soybeans I wasnt expecting.
If you mess up and over fill the separator you spill a few too many kernels out the back, no one will notice tho only your pocketbook.
If you mess up and overload the header you will plug up the mouth of the combine, the feeder house. This is usually a smaller plug up deal but some days its a mess too.
In the end a consistent even flow of the same amount of material going through the combine is most certainly the best to thrash out.
And time is money, crop needs to be harvested when it is ripe, so keeping the combine near full is also the goal, not puttering around half full. Tho you could set the machine to work pretty well in such conditions as well.
We do run on the edge, it is where we need to be with the combine.
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