John Deere Combine Settings for a Successful Soybean Harvest
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- čas přidán 4. 11. 2020
- Marion Calmer shares his recommendations for properly setting a John Deere combine's threshing, separating and cleaning areas for a successful soybean harvest. For a full list of Marion's recommended combine settings using either a red or green combine, visit www.CalmerCornHeads.com
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Thanks for the knowledge
That green looks good on ya, Marion!
New equipment is unusual around these parts! We're just getting used to it.
Hi Marion
I'm from Australia, and we run 5 of the sts's for wheat, barley, canola and lupins.
I've been using John Deere's since the 955 model
The one thing that I never hear people talk about is the grain loss sensor for the rotor.
The loss monitor in the cab has the rotor icon, as a walker (50,60,and 70 series) but the rotor sensor doesn't measure grain loss.
It tells you that you are getting grain separation at the rear of rotor (separator) meaning that if the monitor indicator , starts moving up, (usually cold conditions) then we either have to close the concave clearance, or speed the rotor, in order to get more grain separating at the front (in the concaves)
The monitor is a carry over from the walker machines and is a false indicator to the operator.
All of my new operators slow the ground speed, because the grain loss monitor shows an average of the chaffer and the rotor.
I tell my operators to only look at chaffer loss when deciding to reduce ground speed.
In general, the chaffer is the limiting factor for wheat and barley, but we can still fill the box in under 10 minutes providing ground speed hasn't been compromised. We run 40ft draper fronts and we find that running the choppers at full speed (knives lowered) will give us extra capacity as well.
We run the concave gap around 30 and repeat more if we have to, as this is more efficient than trying to knock all the grain out in the first thresh. Top chaffer opened higher than recommended and sieve, lower than recommended (around 3 for wheat)
We also run helical concaves for strength and aggressiveness, so that we can open it up more.
Thanks for the video, I will come visit you when I get over there.
As a point of interest, I was the demonstration consultant for JD in our area as well as sales/AMS . (Contractor/repair/modify now)
Thanks for the info on the rotor loss sensor and readout. I’ve been trying to understand it on our new S series. Pretty much all of my “loss” has been showing on the separator, but I have very little going overboard. My sieve loss shows nothing most of the time. The JD manual is pretty useless. Now I understand it.
love the detail - would you like to help us write a blog post/article?
@@CalmerCornHeads yeah sure.
I have a CZcams channel as well but , for private viewing ATM. Will open it up soon , as we have hot tips for STS owners.
Marion, for wheat, we have a small operation and about 60 acres. what about using the inserts in the first two concaves meaning the ones you refer to as venention blinds. with our low acreage of wheat i dont feel buying wire concaves is realistic so what would you recommend for use with the bar concaves. can those filler plates that you found in kansas be used on the back of the round bar concaves. maybe use one of those and then several inserts??? just wondering your thoughts. thx
Thats all well and good on a rotor machine but changeing concaves on an axial to switch corn and beans is a hell of a job.
Great video, the longer ones are better!
Iv been doing a few kill stops on our s680 and can’t get the rotor to stop very quickly, I’m going by what the manual says, how do you do it?
Shoot Marion a call at (309) 368-1182 for full details. Otherwise, we have a full series on kill stop examinations and a few videos on rotor speed.
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I have soybeans coming out of the back of a JD 9870. You can hear them hitting the window of the grain cart tractor. We have tried a lot of different settings with minimal success. Any suggestions?
Try putting your back set of concaves with the spacers in on #1 and out on #2 and in on the back one #3. The up and down effect can help thresh out more pods.
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Marion, 50 years of harvesting?? You start harvesting when you were 12 or so?
Marion's dad had all the boys involved during harvest and on the family farm from the start, like many other farm kids!
My sister in law was running a combine at 12...It had a clutch...before the hydrostatic days...