Combines Pods in beans

We face this every year with our Group IV's. If you're trying to shell green pods, don't. I've found that by leaving most of the green pods intact, they don't get into the sample probe as much and therefore don't count against you as much as if you are shelling them out and have a bunch of green "butterbeans" in your sample. The man at our local grainery told me not to worry about shelling the green hulls, so I don't. As far as settings, on my 2388 with rice rotor, I'm running the concave at 4 and the rotor at or around 600 with no load, fan at 1100. I leave the shoe open enough to allow the green hulls to go through. I try to run as little return as possible. I will change my concave or speed settings if necessary with changing conditions, but I only tighten or speed up enough to shell out the dry hulls. If you're running a lOT of green hulls, you might try a dessicant such as paraquat to dry them down. I also treated most of my soybeans this year with Quadris, since we had a very wet year and disease seemed likely. I've noticed with the fungicide, the beans seemed to dry down more evenly, and very few green or shrivled beans this year. So far we have had no dockage for damage, and high test weights for August harvested Group IV's.

ran a round hole sieve in a 1680 in beans and 2nd crop rice cleanest sample ever, one problem in 30 bushel beans or higher return chokes with good speed 2nd crop rice dosen't yield as high as first crop but in thick spots she still chokes return,to change out it takes about 10-15 minutes 2 men but now we just close down on bottom sieve of 2188

DD have you used paraquat on beansIJ If so what rate, what adjuvents, and dry down time in say 90 degree heat. Have 2.6s that have started to shatter with green stems, leaves and pods mixed in for good measure. TIA

Sharecropper, You need to check with someone to make sure on the rate, but I think it is a pint per acre of Gramoxone + .25% surfactant. They don't recommend doing it until 80% of the pods are yellow or brown in color. Usually can cut within 2 days or so of application as long as the weather is hot. Don't spray more than you can harvest within 2-3 days. We were custom harvesting last year, moved into a field on Friday afternoon, and the moisture was 15.5%. The farmer sprayed that evening and we took the weekend off. Got back on Monday, and the moisture had dropped to 11.5%!

Thanks DD for responding. Cheers

Sharecropper, I just talked to our consultant about spraying some of our beans. He recommended 1 gallon to 10 acres Gramoxone + .25% surfactant. Put out at 5 gallons water per acre by air, 10 by ground. Hope this helps. Deadduck

DD, my guy said 12 oz. gramoxon, 2% coc and ams. so they are close on their recomendations. Sprayer is loaded just need the wind to drop. Cheers

We need the weather to clear up. Been raining every day since last Thursday. Not much inchwise, just a shower every day. Supposed to clear up tomorrow, then we'll be spraying too.

By closing the chaffer you are shutting off the air,open it up and play with the sieve. good luck

likely the culprit is that the beans are escaping prematurely in the first two sections of concaves before they can be fully threshed. You have a couple of good options here. You can use the blanking plates over the first 2 concave sections to hold the beans in until they are threshed; that will almost certainly take care of it. Or, try closing the concave down all the way. You could insert the additional wires into the first three concave sections to make the wire spacing 5_8" (I think that would be my first step). You can also use the spacer blocks for the first 3 sections of concaves to make them tighter than the remaining 4 concaves. The theory here is to hit the material hard at first and then less aggressively in the remaining 4 concave sections. I'd run fan wide open and cleaning sieve a bit wider and do most of the adjusting with the chaffer for cleanliness vs. loss. Happy harvesting.