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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 8879952" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>Not in my exoerience. I set sieves using shims I made myself cut from steel plate of various thicknesses then I put corresponding marks on the handles that stick out the back using a drill to cut in a bit and and an all surface marker to make a dot that lines up with it where the handle comes though. Shim should just slide through at right opening. I’ve found tyre tread depth measuring devices to be crap as for one thing I can’t read them without my glasses and for another it depends where on the sieve finger you place the gauge as to the reading you get.</p><p>I set bottom sieve at 10mm now for all cereals. If there are unthreshed tips i thresh harder or drive faster to better fill the drum. Trying to keep unthreshed tips out by closing lower sieve cuts the sieve capacity too much and you have to drive slow to avoid overloading the returns. Driving slower worsens threshing which makes it even worse.</p><p>Sometimes in spring wheat that threshes badly, if I’ve plenty of time I’ll close the lower sieve, close the drum up and thresh hard but it really cuts capacity. I’d do it for home saved seed or something like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 8879952, member: 2119"] Not in my exoerience. I set sieves using shims I made myself cut from steel plate of various thicknesses then I put corresponding marks on the handles that stick out the back using a drill to cut in a bit and and an all surface marker to make a dot that lines up with it where the handle comes though. Shim should just slide through at right opening. I’ve found tyre tread depth measuring devices to be crap as for one thing I can’t read them without my glasses and for another it depends where on the sieve finger you place the gauge as to the reading you get. I set bottom sieve at 10mm now for all cereals. If there are unthreshed tips i thresh harder or drive faster to better fill the drum. Trying to keep unthreshed tips out by closing lower sieve cuts the sieve capacity too much and you have to drive slow to avoid overloading the returns. Driving slower worsens threshing which makes it even worse. Sometimes in spring wheat that threshes badly, if I’ve plenty of time I’ll close the lower sieve, close the drum up and thresh hard but it really cuts capacity. I’d do it for home saved seed or something like that. [/QUOTE]
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