Combines F2 and Canada wildrye

[NDDan]

Don't see your getting any tips hear and I've never been in grass with conventional but!!!! I have heard of people removing chaffer and or sieve. They are likely structural parts of shoe on a F2 so you'ld have to make up frameing or mod screens be removing every other louver or something of the such. Don't know if you can slide walkers back or something like that. Hopefully if you can get it to grain bin you can get unloaded for that may be next challenge. I believe that is the variety of rye that custumer had nightmares with. lucky only had a few acres. It was the whiskers or awns that gave such great trouble and will likly remove chaffer and or sieve for next year. Cleaners claimed it was way way to clean to have been doing a good job on the ground. Good luck

 

[dloc]

If you want to see how bad, go to the USDA Plants Database (http:__plants.usda.gov_) and type in Canada wildrye. The long tail is the first problem but little barbs on the other end create instant mats. Unloading it is another problem. There must be a way because I found a 50's reference that talked about putting a debearder after the clean grain leg and before the tank to make the material easier to handle. But they didn't say anything about the rest of the settings. Thanks for the thoughts.

 

[NDDan]

I've seen where they use air to pipe it directly back into wagon that combine pulls. Fill it up and switch wagons. I have a custumer looking into belt conveyer for that sort of crop. I think we'll be making special chaffer and maybe leave sieve out to handle Canada wildrye.