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Posted by Dan-IA on September 30, 2006 at 20:26:43 from (66.43.223.231):
In Reply to: Re: Grain cleanup posted by IaGary on September 30, 2006 at 16:27:18:
I can answer that one without any trouble: Many beans are shattered out at the head and far more come out in the throat before they ever get to the cylinder. It gives me great pain to watch as they fly away in all directions. A year ago, I thought I wanted to put up some sort of clear plastic as a "fence" to catch some of the flyoffs. Dad disagreed. And it's still his combine, after all... He set the sieves, I don't know how he sets them: he just crawls in there with a vise-grip, does his thing, and comes out saying "that looks about good." The concaves are set by the lever in the cab: we started on 3, but it was plugging up so we backed it up to a 4 or 5. That leaves a gap in there about the size of my finger (about half to 3/4 of an inch maybe.) Shame there isn't an implement for it. I was thinking something along the lines of raking up the trash (there was a massey head that would do that, but we don't own one), and using something that has about as much suction as your typical shop-vac to pick up the grain without taking a lot of topsoil. Then something akin to a fanning mill (or the guts of a combine) to sift out the extra stuff and reclaim the lost grain. So, it'd be like adding a small grain vac to the combine to pick up what gets lost. For small-scale tests, I think enough vacuum to do a row or two could be produced by a small gas engine and a squirrel-cage fan like you'd find in the older propane furnaces. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being really tight and stingy. But since we were pretty short on rain and the yield seems like it's gonna be about 20% short of what it was last year and we only farm about 140 acres on this place, I was hoping there was a way to avoid wasting so much of it.
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