[tbk]

I know it's a little early to start worrying about this (probably 2 1/2 months from planting) but I'd like to get all my ducks in a row for threshing the crop with my R50. This would be the first time for me with this combine in that crop. Other times I'd used my M2.


I understood when I bought it that it had the dry bean package installed in the cage, which I guess is the chrome steep helicals?


Do I need to change any other things in order to handle the crop gently? These are black turtle beans and splits are a very bad thing. I'm concerned with dry conditions.


I'm guessing that the book settings are a place to start for concave clearance, cylinder speed and wind.


I'm going to clip them, and I have SCH guards and knife to cut as close as possible to the ground.


Tbran, NDDan, anybody that's been down this road before, any pointers or solid advice would sure be appreciated!


Many Thanks!
Tom Koppel

 

[tbk]

Meant to add that I plan to flip the guards and knife to cut close.

 

[drallis]

I'm sure wide tooth spaced cylinder bars would be a plus. Also, if any of the feed chain slats are AGCO parts and new, I'd be taking a grinder to the teeth and removing all the sharp edges. I know for a fact 20 plus years ago, AGCO published information on edible beans and those sharp feed slat teeth were an issue. Keep the header auger well up off the floor so you don't grind any beans there.

 

[hwy19farm]

A set of Dan's sweeps on the rotor would be a must have.As far as flipping the guards,I had a bad bit of luck doing that .Going down 30" rows the header dug into the ground like a front end loader and had the sickle pointing straight down.I would cut at an angle and be careful.

 

[tbk]

The beans will be drilled in 16" runs and rolled after sowing. Where do you add the sweeps to the rotor? I thought those only got bolted to the face of enclosed rotors? Oh, it does have the wide spaced rasp bars.


I thought I'd read here somewhere about doing something to the accelerator rolls?

 

[hwy19farm]

You take bars off the rotor and put sweeps on.You will be thrashing on the helicals and put through will be much faster.My beans were rolled also so be careful.Some guys do take one roller of accelerator lugs off so the beans do not hit the grain pan so hard,cracking beans.