Combines Setting an F for beans

It has been many years back, but corn takes one size sheave and beans another for cylinder speed so get use to changing that sheave. Heads swap easy, hopefully Black A head. I personally wouldn't go larger than a 15', sets with the drills and the 6-30 planters rows and if for some reason you get into some weeds you won't overload. I had both sets of sieves for mine and prefered the few minute change over to the bean sieve, they were so much cleaner. Excellent machine!

Hello Dave, On your F have good cyl. bars and concave bars. A ideal harvest moisture is 13%, but in our area they are usually that only for a day and then dry down fast. We run our cyl around 500 RPM and 1_2 to 5_8 clearance. Usually the beans are dry and stems are tough, so you may want to put a larger sprocket on the lH. cyl shaft to speed up the thr. beater. This prevents backfeeding. The F will handle a 18' head but it depends if your in 25 bu beans or 60 bu. We have a 18' rigid and a 18' FCB head as well as a F 15 ser. 2 header for sale if your interested just contact us, email or call 402-643-3290. Where are you locatedIJIJ Happy Harvesting! Thanks Dave

This baby will eat beans. I assume you are talking about soybeans. Run it about 500 rpm at about 1_4" to 3_8" and that should work pretty well to start with. Set the fan to about 7 or 8 and if you have a tach set it to book specifications. You don't want to push too much out the back, let it go in the bin. Most companies aren't fussy about split beans but you don't want to over-do it! In our area you would only want a 15 foot head, but it depends on how many bpa (bushels per acre) you harvest though. If you don't have corn throw the rasp away and put a spike cylinder in. The old F's had spike concave or spring concaves but the spikes were better but now you can replace them with new different type of springs. Have the bean sieves in there and unload at 1_2 throttle to do a nice job. Also the bucket elevator does a nicer job along with the sprocket driven cylinder. There are many things to do to gain capacity as well. This should give you a great start though. Keep an eye on the straw walkers and make sure your chopper is sharp and squared edges for chopping!!!!!!! Good luck!

Thanks guys for the help. I have more questions. What's the difference in a bean sieveIJ Where can I get oneIJ Do I need itIJ I only have 25 acres (dryland) just to try it out this year here in SC Kansas. Dave