Combines green stem beans

[tbran]

agree, wish this year were over. Tailings plugs usually because material will not exit drop chute, drop chute plugs and then tailings elevator takes material back down the other side and eventually gets plugged as mateial enters but does not exit. Two things, first ClEAN entire down chute, I mean clean, then coat with Slip Plate or other graphite paint - which is usually graphite and laquer. MAke sure paint is shaken up good. This is the stuff one paints gravity wagon beds with. Also coat the inside of the bottom panel of the door you raised and the rear sloped floor under the chute leading to the dist auger. Then before you harvest polish the dried paint with a paper towel until it is so slippery a fly can't stand on it. The second is to make sure the cylinder is not pluging the tailings due to green sticks protruding through the grate and green material building up to the point of blocking the discharge chute. To prevent this we have successfully blocked off with an N style cage cover the RH side of the grate and cage. Blocking off 12-16" from the rh wall on the threshing grate from the 3:00 oclock position to the top of the grate will prevent this buildup and plugging. Hope this helps, again we will be glad when this year is over, huh or ehIJ.

 

[93aRRRgh_52]

I've got green stem beans that had Headline on them. Dew came on early tonight and I'm plugged. I am questioning using this particular variety of beans again. It's a tawny color bean, seems like the grey color beans always combine better.

 

[John]

I was wondering if I was the only one who thought the greyish colored seemed to thresh easier. I think the stems and pods seem to be softer than the redder beans. JJ

 

[93aRRRgh_52]

have you tried taking out that plate above the accellerator rollers below the seperator side of the threasherIJ It has 4 bolts on it and comes out easily. Taking it out exposes more roll area and allows more material to get out of cylinder area sooner.

 

[oldstruck]

Every year there is a variety of beans that I would rather mow down with the bat wing mower than try to harvest with the combine. This year the tough ones are the 2.5 and 2.7 maturity beans from Dekalb and Asgrow. Also 3147 Crows and a Merschman variety. I make a note of them from my planting records. This year the short season beans, we believe went dormant in the dry summer then with the August rains came out of it. I still have DK 25-51s that have a canopy! The pods are dry but the plant looks like it is still trying to grow and to make it worseIJ They are about 9" tall. I had one of the worst slugs last week in what looked like a dry bean, Asgrow 2703. The slug was soo bad between the front and rear feeder chains, that even after two hours of trying to get the slug undone, we still could not rock the fly wheel with a 3' pipe wrench. We finally got out a cordless drill and found a long 3_4" wood bit and started drilling into the mass. Another 1 1_2 hours later we finally were able to clear it out. When done the pile of mass that we had was no larger than a couple pillows. Weather is not cooperating this year either! But anyway. I do not plant a variety of bean that causes me harvest issues. Merschman Hoover was one that I planted once, due to these reason, so was Grant. This year Crows 3147 may be on my hit list. As far as PioneerIJ Not had much luck with their products on our soil. 93M11 were 10 bushels under 3 other companies simailar beans, but harvested ok. NO I am not promoting any particular bean or corn. Next year I am going to try an NKn that was in a senitnal rust plot, that came out good. But you are right. Asgrow 3302s were grey this year and I got them out almost 3 weeks ago now. The Mershman Trumans were a darker color and they came out ok also. There is also a butterscotch colored variety that harvested nicely also. But I am still having operator issues (me) and our R42. I am finding it has such an narrow window of processing crops correctly. Any small change including ground speed and it just does a terrible job. If I can get it in the sweet spot it does pretty good, but I have to find that sweet spot for each variety and small fields of 2 to 10 acres is frustrating.

 

[silverbill]

You might be recycling the tailings because the right side of shoe is overloaded but the left side is underloaded because the tailings dumps on the right side. It might help to make a short piece of bolt on flighting that goes on the far right side of distribution auger and pushes the material from the return back to the center of the shoe. This would load the shoe more evenly and make it easier to reset the shoe to blow more MOG out the back.

 

[IowaDan]

I can't remember where you are located. I've been a seed dealer for 34 years and Dekalb and Asgrow are my brands. I would not have sold you DKB25-51's because they are bred to be a short variety and I don't like short beans with my R42. AG2703's have been great over the years but are an old variety. We go with the taller varieties like AG2802's, AG3006's, AG3101's, AG3602's. I know this is not a seed site so I included my e-mail at the top in case you would like more info on this subject...........Dan

 

[oldstruck]

Hi Dan! We are just east of lincoln, NE. Yes, Asgrows are one of our main beans. 3302 and 3102 are, our work horses. I tried a plot (a round of 3802, they were not bad) 27's have been another one that have worked very well for us. I tried the DK 25-51's two years ago and they have been really good performers. I think you have a good point, after thinking about it a bit. The taller beans do feed better into the Gleaner head. The CIH 1660 we had I did not notice the feeding differences between beans as I do on this machine. I think you have good advice here and I will definitly take note of it. We planted 130 acres of beans this year and we had 3 Asgrow, 1 Dk, 2 Merschman, 2 Crows, 1 Pioneer, plus a couple other bags of "try this" from the dealers. Then we have 40 acres of corn and 4 varieties! MiloIJ 35 acres, and this year 3 varieties. You see my delema with setting the R42. I spend about as much time outside the machine as in the cab. Honestly if there is a Gleaner school, I will sign up asap! I will drop you an email. Thanks! stu

 

[NowGleaner7]

A few years ago this happened to me. I solved it by cutting the blocks that restrict the float up and down when in the corn position. I leave the front in corn position for all crops. I cut 3_8" off one end and welded it on the other end. I did this on both sides of the front feeder housing only. What this does when you install it (welded side to the top) stops slugs from getting past the first feeder chain. If you get a large wad you simply back it out on the ground. One thing to note is we use air reels so an uneven feed is seldom a problem. When you go to corn you simply reverse the blocks so there is a much wider space between the feederhouse floor and feederhouse chain. This also adds some stone protection in wheat and beans. Have a good harvest.