Combines soybeans

[Ohio__Steve]

My experience has been that the axials can give a big grain quality improvement over conventions...We occasionally grow some certified seed beans on contract with a neighboring seed producer and those beans are closely monitored for debris and splits,etc.which gives us numbers to work with....results are seed beans are all harvested by the axial

 

[Jim]

Our experience with both conventional and axial flow is that the axial will give a superior quality bean in dry harvest conditions. We plant all soys in not less than 15in. rows and preferably 22 or 30in. You will get a larger bean with less disease pressure

 

[statboy44]

All of the above posts are true. The Axial-Flow harvest soybeans way better then a conventional. Cleaner beans, and more in the tank, rather then the field. I plant them with a 1993 Case IH 5500 30ft drill.

 

[tbran]

You can visit the posts below and find teste-monials (sic) to that effect. Yes in green stem soybeans the conventionals do have an edge. However a few of the guys here have found what the IH guys did about the powers of specialty rotors etc that REAllY improve the performance of the rotarys to the point of running with the coventionals. As to planting, we find narrow row (15-20") beans planted with a planter out yield drilled beans due to problems with grain drills getting a stand year in and out where as in super wet or dry years drills have a problem. I speak for Tn_Ky. The disadvantage is planter cost. Most large farmers have a 20'Deere 750 or circa drill and a 12 row planter. The smart ones use a big a$$ White planter with interplants ;-). (Sunflower builds a drill that works best here though. We also have a bunch of Tye drills that double as pasture rennovators) There are a lot of 23 row kinzes. Personally I try to get my mother in law with a bucket and hoe to plant most of our crop. Havn't been successful yet though. As to plugging up every other hole I would be careful. My MIl did that once and had the worst case of packed bowels and sore throat you have ever seen......

 

[Tom_Russell]

My R60 does a super job in tough beans even when there is light rain or mist. Drilled beans in this area are not as popular as they were a few years ago because of white mold. Tom in MN

 

[Unit_2]

little Al, Unless you are cutting tough green pod soybeans, you should not have any problems with unthrashed pods with every other wire out of the concave. Set the concave on 2 and run the rotor about 600. If that cracks the beans slow the rotor down or open the concave to 3. Today I was cutting some very dry soybeans and I had my concave at 4 and the rotor at about 520. Did an excellent job. Good luck! K.A.

 

[lITTlE_Al]

THANKS FOR THE INFO. WHAT SHOUlD I SET AIR SPEED ONIJ THESE BEANS WIll RUN AROUND 13% MOISTURE. IS IT BEST TO SPEED UP ROTOR OR TO ClOSE CONCAVES. i'VE AlWAYS HEARD WITH ROTOR MACHINE TO KEEP YOUR ROTOR SPEEDED UP AS FAST HAS YOU CAN. AND OPEN YOUR CONCAVES HAS WIDE AS THE CROP WIll lET YOU.wHAT IS YOU THOUGHTSIJ

 

[Farm_Kid2]

Al, I usually trade off some capacity in order to minimize losses and keep the sample as clean as possible. Try over-threshing the crop if possible and run lots of air. That means tighter concaves and faster rotor speed than most recommend. This will help minimize the return volume and help keep unthreshed pods out of the tank because there are simply fewer of them. Of course, when cutting crops for seed, this might not be the way to go. In your case, I doubt that you can get green bean pods threshed, so letting them ripen and dry down would help if that's possible. If you need to cut now and you have green pods, cover plates are an excellent investment. It is impossible for the lower sieve to keep unthreshed pods out of the tank because they are nearly the same size and density as the beans.

 

[rodd]

We have for years went from corn to beans without changing anything the only time we change concaves is to go to wheat

 

[larryNCKS]

Sounds like you need to speed ground travel up, but then I don't know how big your vines are. The engine speed drop of 50 rpm is very normal. 700 rpm on the rotor is on the high end for beans.