Combines threshing soft beansIJIJ

[cashcroper]

I have a 2366 and am combining soybean concave at 0 and rotor at 600 to 650 doing a good job, 18 foot head and air reel traveling at 4.5 miles a hour in 50 + bushels crop.

 

[cashcroper]

I have a 2366 combine was doing soybeans today 12% moisture doing a great job. Concave set at 0 and I mean 0 rotor at 600 to 650 wide wire concaves. Do not be scared to tighter up your concaves if you are spliting some slow down your rotor speed ok

 

[Deadduck]

By soft immature beans do you mean green unthreshed pods, or do you mean threshed green "butterbeans"IJ How much are you getting docked at the elevatorIJ I would check with your elevator and make sure what they want. Around here, they don't want us threshing out green beans, they would rather have unthreshed green pods. Plus, it's been my experience that not many unthreshed pods make it into the probe anyway. If they're already running 12%, I wouldn't wait unless they were really docking you hard. You're losing money as you lose moisture. I've learned with early beans down here to just accept some green pods in the sample. They rarely dock us for them. You can also use Gramoxone on the beans to dry down the green pods and stems. We used some of it this year, where low areas of fields that got too much rain were still green. It worked well, but then it costs some money too.

 

[Red_dog]

We actually have both butterbeans and unthreshed pods. I don't really know what we are getting for dockage, haven't talked to the driver yet. We filled one load and quit. Started back on corn this afternoon yields are excellent 200-250 dry on sand at 28%. I thought about doing a preharvest burn down on the beans but we got frooze out on the weekend so it likely won't help anymore. Will just need to be a little patient with mother nature. Thanks for now!!