Combining very short w beans

[willy]

Any tips, got a 12m header and not looking forward not only are the beans short but they have prodded low down?

 

[Flat 10]

Any tips, got a 12m header and not looking forward not only are the beans short but they have prodded low down?

no t really. Close your eyes to losses from pods cut in half?

 

[yellowbelly]

Spring loaded lifters??

By the time you've bought a set for a 40' bed it'd be probably cheaper to go and buy an old MF525 12' and stick your harvest student on it for the duration while you and the forty footer go and do something more productive

 

[Barleymow]

Mine are similar on un leveled ploughing, least I've only 6m header will take lifters off not expecting to get half of them ?

 

[Flat 10]

Oh crap. That won't be fun. I did furrow press and PH the headlands on mine........

 

[copse]

Any tips, got a 12m header and not looking forward not only are the beans short but they have prodded low down?

How high are they?

 

[yellow belly]

Set up with skid Just on the ground No problem following the ground a few mm above the stones
tracks and a new Holland help Need confidence in the system With the 4 deck plates older headers with 2 deck plates harder to set up
faster you go the better it rides When the sensitivity is set just right just need smooth ins and outs
10 to 15 k faster you go the less time the beans have to hit the ground

set it up on some very level ground and practice On wheat stubble Is the best as you can measure how long the stubble is the only down side is it wears out the deck plates need some spare double fingers for the occasional bet one
tracks take out tyre bounce but with tyres could try increasing the tyre pressure to the highest

 

[bobk]

Another crop not worth growing .

 

[yellow belly]

Another crop not worth growing .

In a bad year every crop is not worth growing but you only know after the event

 

[tw15]

Had to cut some very ripe close to the ground podded beans a couple of years ago if you went to fast they would lean away or too slow they fell out as cut you just had to pick a speed that by the time some had fallen out they were caught on the header . You could see the beans in the split pods standing the vibration of the knife made um fall .

 

[Exfarmer]

I can take you to a crop Near here, I would defy anyone no matter what combine,however small, combine that is, To pick up more than 10%. It looks well podded but I suspect the sensible option would be to plough it in

 

[yellow belly]

I can take you to a crop Near here, I would defy anyone no matter what combine,however small, combine that is, To pick up more than 10%. It looks well podded but I suspect the sensible option would be to plough it in

If it was drilled with The beans in the hollows with ridges not a lot you can do

 

[Exfarmer]

If it was drilled with The beans in the hollows with ridges not a lot you can do

Drilled with a Vaddy and is less than 300mm high, lots of pods.

 

[yellow belly]

Had to cut some very ripe close to the ground podded beans a couple of years ago if you went to fast they would lean away or too slow they fell out as cut you just had to pick a speed that by the time some had fallen out they were caught on the header . You could see the beans in the split pods standing the vibration of the knife made um fall .

A very sharp knife and good finger edges helps I have used a high real speed to propel The beans in

combining on a damp day or early morning also helps beans do not wet very quickly once they re hard and dry despite what your moisture meter says

 

[Lexion1000]

You could try to find someone with a flexible header to do it, or it might pay to find a contractor with a smaller header.

 

[Badshot]

Drilled with a Vaddy and is less than 300mm high, lots of pods.

It'll be worth cutting then.
Just need a good operator, not a steering wheel attendant.

 

[willy]

My thoughts are - lifters off, bed out and reel fairly fast to help flick them in and and go for it.

 

[Exfarmer]

My thoughts are - lifters off, bed out and reel fairly fast to help flick them in and and go for it.

Have you combined beans, like rape the reel has to be operated very carefully or none will get on the table.
if they are lucky and a very dull day may get away with a salvage job , but I would not not like to be driving a 40 foot machine across that field, hope his manager understands!

 

[ih1455xl]

I cut beans on a damp morning 2 years ago was done in the drizzle hardly lost a bean

 

[Fish]

I cut beans on a damp morning 2 years ago was done in the drizzle hardly lost a bean

That's the way to do it, start just before sun up and stop before the beans get to dry, works every time.