Combines 2188 untreshed Pods in bin

Are your unthreshed pods green or dryIJ These early beans that we cut in August often have a lot of green pods in them even though they're ready to cut. If the pods are dry, it could be that your concaves are worn too smooth. I have the same rotor setup as you in a 2388. We took our concaves out two years ago and they were worn very smooth on the inside. We welded beads across the some of the wires on the inside surface of the concaves to create a rougher area, and it seemed to help threshing some. Might want to look at them and see.

That's part of it: group 4's 11% moisture popping out, yet with semi green pods, (i think they should be thresh-able)bad enough they will stop the flow out of the grain bin (farm bin that is) I don't thrash rice, only soys and some corn. Thanks for the RE: John

Hows things down in lA been latelyIJ We got a flood rain last weekend and now are going to have to replant a few hundred acres of beans because of it. 8 inches in 2 days and it had been almost a month and a half since the last rainfall..... At least the wheat was great. 76 bu. per acre over the whole farm.

We have had good luck putting on cover plates over the front concave. Won't stop the problem totally, but will certainly help.

Hey, good to hear from you. Our wheat crop was good down here too. Have some wheat booked for 4.85 for next year, so I'll be planting a lot more this fall. It's dry down here. Right now, I think I'd take an 8-inch rain... Well maybe not, but 3 inches wouldn't hurt a thing. A few places got some rain last weekend and early this week, but not enough. At least we can water 90% of what we farm. Cotton crop looks good but we've had to roll out poly pipe before we've laid it by. We got several showers through April after we planted our rice, so the Command worked well. Right now, our rice crop looks as good as I've seen, and we don't have much money in herbicides on it. Guess that's about it. Good luck this year.

The cover plates work good . Gives you more crop on crop thrashing ( just how the rotor was designed to work ) . Much more gentle than a sharp set of concaves .Especially for seed production . May not get every last pod to open up but the results are well worth the cost and effort to put them in .

I don't have experience with the spiked bars, but we now run two cover plates in beans and wheat. I would think that a person would want to remove them in corn and milo, but for most other crops you could just leave them in. Seems like with large wire concaves and keystock grates the rotor has more separation area than it has threshing ability, and the cover plates kind of balance it out. I would rather open the rotor clearance up a little bit when threshing is easy than take the plates out.

There's going to be a lot of wheat acres here too next year. Glad to hear that your crop is looking well. Its about time lA farmers get a good year. The past few have been tough I know.

We've had pretty good crops here in Northeast lA, but we're not but 20 miles or so south of the AR line. They're still having some tough times in Southwest lA, mainly down near the coast. Hurricane Rita pushed a lot of salt water inland, and there has been no rain to dilute and wash the salt away. Plus the rice prices being in the tank really hurt.

I read about the salt problems. As if they didn't have enough to deal with... We don't have much for rice acres this year, only around 300 for seed. Thats been enough to deal with going almost 2 months without any rainfall. The pumps haven't shut off on 2 of our fields since the first day we started them. Good to hear from you too. You ever get back up my way at all anymoreIJ