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Post by putsie on Aug 19, 2012 8:48:18 GMT -5
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Post by johndeere61 on Aug 19, 2012 11:05:30 GMT -5
Wel, it looks like somebody was having too much fun during harvest! lol how fast do you guys normally run with that head?
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Post by putsie on Aug 19, 2012 15:27:12 GMT -5
Somebody had to make the sacrifice get the glamor shots ;D
Picking up canola we typically stayed around the 5 mph mark, slower when the swaths are still tough (damp). These swaths are 8-10ft wide and knee high for the most part so it still provides some grunt to take em in.
I have picked up cereals at 6-7mph but in a crop over 60bpa good luck maintaining that speed. Picking swaths (35ft in our case) is a bit different than straight cutting. The swath is usually packed harder and takes more grunt than the fluffy incoming straight cut. Usually takes a little more rotor and wind to thresh and separate too, to get a similar looking sample in cereals anyways.
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Post by woltersfarm on Aug 20, 2012 7:32:27 GMT -5
Looking great! always love to see pics from up there!
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Post by djt14 on Aug 24, 2012 20:05:35 GMT -5
Nice pics Chris! How'd the sample look? Our 8010 has been bringing in a lot of pods. Look's like a decent crop to
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Post by jcg10 on Aug 24, 2012 20:21:42 GMT -5
nice pics!
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Post by putsie on Aug 24, 2012 22:25:13 GMT -5
Nice pics Chris! How'd the sample look? Our 8010 has been bringing in a lot of pods. Look's like a decent crop to Hauled in about 10,000 bu to the elevator so far (8000+/- today). Dockage has been around .6% so I'd say that's pretty clean by my books. No pods in our sample. I did a bit of playing around with the combine settings this year though compared to most years. Actually left the pea concaves in for canola. Worked real well. Overall yield numbers worked out to around 34 bpa which is right on par for the last 3 years of canola crops. |
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Post by djt14 on Aug 24, 2012 22:30:32 GMT -5
What's the year again? Would you mind PM'ing me the settings? That's a first or hearing guys running pea concaves in canola for me. Did you notice a big difference switching concaves? We are also picking a lot of windblown stuff, so it's not helping our situation any
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Post by putsie on Aug 25, 2012 7:59:02 GMT -5
The idea to leave in the pea concaves came from a dealer rep at a combine clinic. Canola shells so easy most of it is shelled before it ever hits the rotor so the pea concave just help to get the material from those big swaths through a little easier, take less power. Pretty tough to tell if there's any real noticeable diff because never compared the tradition concaves to pea ones this year, but it did work well in my opinion, we had just finished peas anyways, so left them in.
As far as settings it was nothing so special. I rotor speed I had set around 450rpm and the fan was turned down to 660-680 rpm most of the time. I'd check your pre-sieve setting though. Its a manual adjustment. The recommendation on them is to run em open as wide as the seed is big, BUT NEVER close it tighter than 1/8". For canola we actually opened it up to around 3/8" to get a little more initial blast of air up front, and maybe get some of the heavy seeds dropping down right away. I don't think I did anything out of the ordinary with the other sieve settings, just ran them at default.
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Post by djt14 on Aug 27, 2012 0:26:53 GMT -5
We run the pre sieves all right on the top notch. The rotor and everything seems like what we had. What was the concave set at?
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Post by farmerboy1568 on Aug 27, 2012 16:11:46 GMT -5
I don't see any canola grown in my area. So I was wondering does it have to be put in a swath first, or can you combine with a grain table?
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Post by djt14 on Aug 27, 2012 17:28:08 GMT -5
It depends on the variety. If you don't put a pod sealer on it, by the time you get there it will all be shattered and on the ground. But pod sealer is really expensive. It's like straight cutting tumbleweeds, can't keep it in the header. It's different when it's still green and being swathed.
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Post by farmerboy1568 on Aug 28, 2012 16:59:11 GMT -5
Thanks. I have to know what canola looks like for my crop judging. So this thred was perfect for me to ask how it's harvested, to help ease my curiosity.
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Post by djt14 on Aug 28, 2012 19:26:13 GMT -5
Dad said a while back with our big customer, we straight cut canola in sloughs that didn't get swathed, worked great, and the seed was twice as big in the tank. I know in europe most of it is straight cut. Got anymore questions feel free to PM me, I'll help in anyway I can!
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Post by gmauch on Sept 9, 2012 16:38:34 GMT -5
Nice combine. Awesome pics too. Love the shots on the water. Its really cool to see pics from Canada where you have all those lakes and can farm right up to them.
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(at least it rained one of those days so a guy wasn't feeling quite as antsy 
). Still managed to get back in the field Thursday pm and finish off the remainder of the 650 acres by 6:00pm yesterday (Sat). So that puts us currently at about 1350 acres down and another 2000+/- to go. Spring wheat (320 acres) and Durum (1200acres) are next but won't be ready for at least another week.
(at least it rained one of those days so a guy wasn't feeling quite as antsy 
). Still managed to get back in the field Thursday pm and finish off the remainder of the 650 acres by 6:00pm yesterday (Sat). So that puts us currently at about 1350 acres down and another 2000+/- to go. Spring wheat (320 acres) and Durum (1200acres) are next but won't be ready for at least another week.
