Combines Edible Beans

I wonder if you are talking about the perferated panels under the chaffer and the sieve, for they will never damage any crop and will let out some dust or fm. The available perferated boots for bottom of elevators will also let out some fm if you keep them scraped clean. I would say most loose dirt and fm will be blown out before it gets under the chaffer so benifits are somewhat limited in my opinion. When your in the conditions that dirt just wants to stay with plant the more screening the better. Ideally set up you header with screened bottom and the proper pickup to shack as much out of possible right away. I would someday like to see the bottoms of clean grain and tailing perferated with about 1_2 inch clearance to auger flighting so there would always be a cusion of beans there with no pinching between flighting and trough. We have found that we can get bone dry beans down to shoe undamaged and than check or split them between auger flighting and trough. In that case we just trimed auger flighting to make room for bean inbetween flighting and trough. Does anyone know what is different between popcorn augers and standard. Maybe the popcorn auger is accomplishing that clearance. Does anyone have a good plan for slowing them augers down by about 50% for edible beans. I think we could maintain less than .5 % damage and fm with a couple of these things. We do enjoy some of the finest samples in the bean plants around here as it is but I like to go all the way. As for bean sieve we have never installed on. The way it sounds that sieve works great in soybeans so it will surely work in navys. Hope this helps!!! Dan

Dan you are right on again. The popcorn auger is smaller diameter. Check with service as they have paper concerning white corn and popcorn that works great and I'll bet they will work as well in your beans...uh what is a NAVY bean anyway. Something sailors are servedIJ are they dark blue in colorIJ We eat SOUP beans with our catfish, but they are cream colored , us southun folk is always inturestid in what you northin folk are up to Bean screens are kinda expensive but they give almost a perfect sample. We are going to run a slotted screen we are making in corn this year to see if it has the capacity and if it will give us the super super super clean sample for pop and white corn that will make it easier for the less than- oh me how can I say this as I am in a hole now...uh the settingly challenged operator.. hows that for political correctnessIJ If it works we might sell it to the brandselectivly challenged ....

All you have two do is set the combine by the book for a start and fine tune it from there. I harvest light red kiddney beans with my two 72's and have no trouble. last yr i wiched i had a flex head, I used my 36 foot honey bee's, the field they were planted on was rented so it was not familar with dad or my self. Needles to say it was a little rolling. Other then that i averaged 3200 lbs to the acre. Colin

Yes you can. Most important is to be sure you have chrome helicals for plain black can wear out very quickly. There are so many ways of preping edible beans for harvest that there are many varibles. Some will cut under ground and windrow for same day harvest, some will let set a couple or more days after cut , some will straight cut with flex head after killing well and some will try without making an effort at killing well. Extra helicals and extended wide rasp cylinder bars (hypering) will help out. Extremly dry beans may require removeing paddles from front accelerator roll tube of a R52. There are a couple ways of slowing clean grain elevator down depending on your year model. You must flow Edible bean straw with very slow cylinder speed to prevent cracking. No rumbling or grumbling allowed. All forward cylinder bars and look back to post on agitator pusher thing and posts on enclosed rotor just before that for the worst edible bean harvesting imaginable. Depending on your preparing and conditions and how well straw flows and how fragile your beans are will make all the difference on how well you can do. Good luck

on r62 we removed alternate rows of accelartor bars. seem to always have really dry beans and green straw. this helps pull straw thru without speeding beans up, thus less splits. went from 10% dock to .05%.

let me see if I got you right. Remove all four pieces on one pipe than move over a spot and remove all four on oppisite tube and so on. I haven't thought of that but that should accomplish same thing as we do but maybe be more positive to prevent any pluging. We are sure to leave right rear paddles on for we lost a few of them bearings for they are recessed out and it seams the dirt can pack in if paddles are gone. You surely don't have any paddles intersecting if splits went from 10 to .05%. Thanks for the info.

R72 had 53 bu. edible beansIJIJ!! Where are you atIJ

Manitoba canada we have had good luck with them so far, this is our third yr. first yr went 40 bu, only plated 40 acres. The next yr went 49 bu, on 80 acres and this yr they went 53bu on 160 acres so i hope this trend keeps up, dad and i are looking at doing 650 acres this coming yr. Colin