Combines Anybody use grain pan screensIJ

[jodman]

Have talked to guys around here that have replaced the clean grain elevator door with some type of screen. They say that it made a big difference for dirt_small weed seeds in the sample BUT only when it was dry. With any kind of extra moisture to the crop or dirt it was a nightmare. I guess the holes in the screen pluged up and caused extra friction. They either had earth tag in thier sample or plugged the elevator. I would think that a full screen that replaced the bottom of the clean grain auger trough would work better. That way it would have less chance of gumming up because of the scraping action of auger.

 

[Countryboy]

I have used them and thought that they did a lot more good than perforated doors on elevators. I dumps a lot of dirt and weed seed on top ot the transmission. I never had it plug up with mud. I think that I may have a set somewhere in the pile of things that I never throw away.

 

[Boss_Hog]

Dad has some experience with them. He put one in while cutting soybeans in the fall. It worked well to get the weed seeds out of the beans. But then the weed seeds were evenly spread out over the field instead of at the elevator. I'm not sure that was a good thing. Next summer when Dad started on wheat, and thought it was odd that he wasn't getting much in the hopper. Turns out he had forgotten to remove the screen, and the wheat was small enough to fall through it. (-: I helped an Uncle once work with some really weedy beans. He dumped the beans into a side dump wagon. Then we ran them through an auger with a screen on the bottom. That let the weed seeds drop out on the way over to the trucks, and the weed seeds weren't scattered all over the field. But that adds more labor and an extra step, which is a pain.

 

[Ken]

I know loewen supplies screens of different sizes of holes, and you could check with themIJ