Combines lots of pods in soybeans

[M__Gorden]

Basically there are two problems occurring when harvesting tough in the pod beans with a specialty rotor. First, too many pods are moving between the specialty bars without getting compressed and shelled out at the pinch point of the concaves. Second, the pods are falling through between the wires in the concaves before the threshing is complete. A proven solution is to install Gorden bars which connect the pedestals together and overlap each other to get more of the crop against the concaves with increased pressure. Install Gorden cover plates to hold the crop in the rotor until shelling is complete.

 

[kenny]

last year I had the same problem on beans. I have a 1440 std rotor and have every wire in the first concave then the second was every other one pulled out. This year a dealer told me to add all the wires to the second concave. Told that this should clean up the beans. The downside of adding the wires is some capacity on corn.

 

[farmer_d]

We have a 1660 and the way we do it is that we always leave all the wires in all 3 concaves. After that if you're careful about chaffer adjustment there shouldn't be a problem. We have the specialty rotor, large wire concaves and keystock grates the same as you do

 

[combineman]

How does it work in cornIJ

 

[cashcroper]

I have a 2344 machine and it does a very fine job in soybeans nice clean sample. Try closing up you concaves do not be scare to run them ever at 0 setting as long as you are not spliting beans. Also put the rotor speed up I have often thrashed bean on the high speed 850 rotor and at zero on the concaves and put a perfect sample in the bin. If you start to have splits slow the rotor speed down, but leave you concave tight, if when you have the rotor speed down all the way and you are still having splits the lower you concaves a little 1 or 2 settings.

 

[farmer_d]

We do the same in corn. I've never taken wires out in our 1660. We used to have a 1440 and we did take wires out with it, but just never got into the habit with the 1660, and it's worked for us. Got to keep your rotor rpms dopwn though - especially is the corn is dry at all.