Combines

[HappyFarmer]

Most challenging year we have had setting combines. I wonder sometimes about the bushels of canola that got lost out there this year with the just "set it like a always do and go" attitudes. No word of a lie we saw losses change by 10 bushels per acre in canola, same fields, same varieties, same day...different conditions. Unbelievable but I know it happened. My guess 75% of guys would have no idea.

[Guest]

Most challenging year we have had setting combines. I wonder sometimes about the bushels of canola that got lost out there this year with the just "set it like a always do and go" attitudes. No word of a lie we saw losses change by 10 bushels per acre in canola, same fields, same varieties, same day...different conditions. Unbelievable but I know it happened. My guess 75% of guys would have no idea.

agreed . . hardest year ever . we were doing a really high yielding canola crop yesterday and got losses with a class 8 combine down from 1.25 bu to half a bushel by slowing from 3.7 mph to 3 mph . this is an 8120 case with bigger sieves than most class 8 combines . I was really shocked we had to go that slow in a 30 ft swath . there will be a lot of canola volunteering next year . this is the most checking we have ever done Behind the combine .

[bigzee]

We calibrate yield monitors over a scale and it's amazing when watching yield drop as speed increases. It doesn't take much of an increase to start loosing product. We run NHs and have to say I'm very with how little loss they have. This was different though with the warmer conditions. Last yr combined 58 canola with very little volunteer growing, but conditions were a lot better.

[Guest]

We calibrate yield monitors over a scale and it's amazing when watching yield drop as speed increases. It doesn't take much of an increase to start loosing product. We run NHs and have to say I'm very with how little loss they have. This was different though with the warmer conditions. Last yr combined 58 canola with very little volunteer growing, but conditions were a lot better.

we have been through that big lentil with an 8010 case . problem is yield monitors work different at different speeds . we were slowing down and yield was shooting up , but used a weigh wagon and there was zero difference that year . only way to know for sure is to flip that chopper back , throw a net under and weigh the resultsa. those yield monitors have to be calibrated for the speed you're travelling .

[biglentil]

Very true CaseIh. It gives the false impression that yield goes up by slowing down. Its like driving down the hiway while watching fuel economy numbers spike up when you let off the gas. It takes a good 20 seconds for the higher grain volume created at higher speed to work its way through. Using the yield monitor to set a combine is a very tricky undertaking. Its easy to misread the results. It can often appear that less wind also improves yield. Let it equalize.

[HappyFarmer]

Hey, questions for everyone. Does a sunnybrook conventional concave allow you to pull wires out and open things up so canola can fall through? And how about rotors? We are running a 8080. It's a big investment to make in a sunnybrook but after this year wondering if it would have been better. We can't pull wires on our stock concave on our machine. I know guys running bean concaves in rotor machines or being able to pull wires out drastically improved a combines performance in that green canola straw and humid conditions.