Harvesting Spring Beans

[Zippy768]

Hopefully make a start this week.
Never grown before, any tips??

Cut with moisture between 16%-20%?
Unload on tickover?
Speed?

What is safe long term storage moisture? Will be going into neighbours store.

 

[David.]

Watching...
Although my problem will be the World Class crop of fat hen that is concealing the bean plant.

 

[DRC]

Hopefully make a start this week.
Never grown before, any tips??

Cut with moisture between 16%-20%?
Unload on tickover?
Speed?

What is safe long term storage moisture? Will be going into neighbours store.

They take some drying, so try and get them as dry as possible .

 

[snarling bee]

Do them overnight or early morning. Lift reel, lift auger, push knife out if vario, open concave, slow drum/rotors, flat out fan, open bottom sieve, use top sieve for sample. Very much depends on the crop, are they tall and tangled or 8" high podded to the floor? Upright knife??

 

[Two Tone]

Combining spring beans is usually easy and fast.
Drum slow as it will go Plus 100rpm.
Concave almost fully open (leave a bit in case it plugs).
Wind flat out.
Grab some beans and put them on the closed sieves. Open them till they fall through that add a couple of mm On bottom sieve and 4mm on the top one.
Piece of cake!

 

[Zippy768]

Watching...
Although my problem will be the World Class crop of fat hen that is concealing the bean plant.

They take some drying, so try and get them as dry as possible .

I was just talking to the neighbour - who's gonna store - about that. He has got 150ac and is in not hurry.
Twice round the dryer to get them down?

 

[Zippy768]

Combining spring beans is usually easy and fast. Just set it up as the book

That's what I like to hear

 

[Zippy768]

Do them overnight or early morning. Lift reel, lift auger, push knife out if vario, open concave, slow drum/rotors, flat out fan, open bottom sieve, use top sieve for sample. Very much depends on the crop, are they tall and tangled or 8" high podded to the floor? Upright knife??

So the idea is to cut them dry and use the damp of morning/night to stop cracking?
They were fair tall between top has bent over. Still 3/4ft high but podded quite low.
Di have a side knife. Required or recommended?

 

[DRC]

I was just talking to the neighbour - who's gonna store - about that. He has got 150ac and is in not hurry.
Twice round the dryer to get them down?

My son has 400 acres to do. When I grew them, if I dried them at too high heat in my old masters drier, they would bake on the outside , but still be moist inside and the overall moisture could easily go back up .

 

[Two Tone]

That's what I like to hear

Have edited. Take another look.

 

[Two Tone]

So the idea is to cut them dry and use the damp of morning/night to stop cracking?
They were fair tall between top has bent over. Still 3/4ft high but podded quite low.
Di have a side knife. Required or recommended?

Best to use a long divider if you’ve got one, instead of a side knife.

 

[Wilberforce]

Returns auger cover off?

 

[Two Tone]

Watching...
Although my problem will be the World Class crop of fat hen that is concealing the bean plant.

See if you can get hold of a a pair of grated returns and clean grain elevator bottoms and also the cross auger bottoms, which will let all the fat hen seeds out, but retain the beans.
Absolutely brilliant if you can get them!

 

[Two Tone]

Returns auger cover off?

Some do it that way, but I don’t.
try with it on first the take off if you think it will help.

 

[Two Tone]

My son has 400 acres to do. When I grew them, if I dried them at too high heat in my old masters drier, they would bake on the outside , but still be moist inside and the overall moisture could easily go back up .

They are an absolute bugger to dry without cracking them. Very slow to warm too.
Master recommend lowering the auger shroud to stop the auger moving them round too fast.

 

[snarling bee]

See if you can get hold of a a pair of grated returns and clean grain elevator bottoms and also the cross auger bottoms, which will let all the fat hen seeds out, but retain the beans.
Absolutely brilliant if you can get them!

I think I have a slotted straw elevator bottom for a 6 walker TX/TF 46/78 in the back of the shed. Could have a look if interested.

 

[Two Tone]

I think I have a slotted straw elevator bottom for a 6 walker TX/TF 46/78 in the back of the shed. Could have a look if interested.

Another thing NH did for the TF and TX ranges was the slotted straw elevator bottoms (which have the non slotted bit that fits over the top). Very good, bit not all the Weed seeds are threshed on the header and some will still hit the drum.

 

[Zippy768]

Returns auger cover off?

What's the idea behind that?

 

[Flat 10]

So the idea is to cut them dry and use the damp of morning/night to stop cracking?
They were fair tall between top has bent over. Still 3/4ft high but podded quite low.
Di have a side knife. Required or recommended?

You are over thinking the cracking I think. We do in the morning so they don’t ping every where when the knife touches them not for any other reason.

 

[teslacoils]

I think I have a slotted straw elevator bottom for a 6 walker TX/TF 46/78 in the back of the shed. Could have a look if interested.

I might have a set for a cr somewhere.