Speaking of grain screens

Errin OH

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Was reading below about the different screens which raises a question.

I run a MF300, I run corn and soy. I was thinking of rotating in some wheat this fall and may would like to do some oats. Reading the book it mentions round and slotted sieves to get a cleaner gain, but doesn't say I need then for small grains.

Question I have is, if I am setup for beans and corn, do I need different sieves? The book claims to have a chart for initial sieve settings, but I can't find it in there.
 
on my CASE machines they did offer a different "chaffer sieve" for Corn but the originals could be used as well, they als offered "Special Fixed Sieves" as well, you can see from this chart it gives the sizes for each crop, some use the same screen as others, this chart does not show one for Oats or Barley, I will look at my later model books and see if they do, I do know I have never used a fixed sieve on Oats Barley or Wheat and can do a very good job of cleaning with the std adjustable sieves, I do use a fixed screen on the cleaning sieve for Alfalfa/Camelina/Crest Wheat grass seeds, hope you can read the chart ok it has quite a bit of useful info, I also added some bin pics, crested seed/alfalfa/oats and wheat that was full of wild oats
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Couldn't you just turn the air up a little to keep the wild oats out of your sample?

Do you have adjustable sieves?


With my MF, no change of parts required, just adjustments. Will run anything, but need to get the Gleaner patch out if I want to run clover or other tiny stuff.
 
yes I can blow all the wild oats out if I want, the guy I was cutting for wanted me to keep as much of the wild oats in the bin as I could to keep down the stuff a bit, he only had it in one field but there was a couple spots it was very bad
 

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