Combines 8780xp and soybeans

8780xp

Guest
I have my doubts if it would work. I have never tried it, but I think that you will get excessive cracking in the beans. I suppose its worth a shot though.
 

AGCOfan

Guest
I don't think it will work either. In the TR I take the wires out and put in roller bar concaves. If there's no soy beans within hundreds of miles, what will you do with themIJ Where will you ship themIJ Take care, Nathan
 

hv_user

Guest
There is a place in Portland Or. that will take them, I wanted to see how they would do here, they are Roundup Ready.It will only work here under irrigation. We have lost all the canery crops like spinnach,and green peas, cucumbers its getting hard to find something to grow. And I like to have a test plot of something in all the time.
 

riceman

Guest
Yeah, It'll work ok enough for what you're doing. We run large wire concaves in our 8780. Are the beans big or smallIJ Irrigated, so I would say pretty big. I'd try running the rotor at 600 or so and the concave on 1_2 inch. That might crack the beans a little...so try 3_4 on teh concave. Hey, its work a try.
 

sorehands

Guest
Give it a try. Make sure to remove any cover plates that may be installed. Install the perforated concave blank if you have one (this replaces the solid plate on the left side of the rotor). Start with a 1.25" concave clearance and rotor speed of 450. Tighten concave before increasing rotor speed if you are not getting complete threshing. You may possibly have lots of cracking with the narrow wire, but you can have a significant amount before getting docked. A slow rotor speed and wider concave clearance will help a bunch. Also, keep the machine full. You'll get along alot better if you wait until the stems are completely dry, but before any pods begin to shatter.
 

greenstrat

Guest
As far as splits go.. used to be you could have up to 20% till dock, now I have a crush plant to deliver to and they are thrown in the can as FM so you have to have less than 1% of that. Still pretty easy to do, just run your rotor as slow and as tight as you can without a lot of rumbling, faster gives more thresh power, but will split more beans. Closer is better till the beans are real dry then it doesn't matter much. GS