Gleaner f2 oats Advice

StrongsOlivers · Jan 18, 2016

I'm going to be doing oats this year and want to bale the straw. BUT I don't want to take the chopper off if I don't have to. So what I'm asking is, is there a way to drop straw with out taking off the chopper.
Next thing is I need advice for checking on loss of grain(I assume that you check just like corn or beans).
Other tips are help full to.
Thanks
Strongs Olivers

centash · Jan 18, 2016

You can take out the front two bolts that hold the chopper on and swing it back and then up. You will need to get a piece of metal/chain attached to the rear upper end of the separator and hook or bolt it to the chopper to keep it swung up and back.
Fan setting and chaffer/seive settings are critical to get good separation;cylinder has to be set tight (1/4 inch) and run fast 1000 rpm.to get good threshing. If yours is a long back, it will do a very good job in oats.
Check for losses in front of the combine(seeds per square foot)If doing the oats srtaight, check for losses at the knife. Then check for losses on the ground behind the combine (seeds per square foot) and check for unthreshed heads still in the straw. That will give you an idea where the losses are occurring and then adjust the machine accordingly.

Ben

StrongsOlivers · Jan 18, 2016

I have a short back. Thanks the advice. I will come I hand since I'm a noobie. Can I use the wheat pulley because the book doesn't say.

centash · Jan 18, 2016

As long as you can get 800 to 1200 rpm range, it should be OK. Oats are a bit harder to thresh completely than is wheat, unless it is swathed. Ben

casecollectorsc · Jan 18, 2016

Take the front bolts and tip it back. Some pieces of angle iron will hold it back. See how it's done on my Case machine.

JMS/.MN · Jan 19, 2016

I do what centash does re the chopper, but I use a flat bar, not chain....it is cut to length that I push the chopper way back and hold it in place. A chain would let it flop, and it would restrict straw leaving the combine. I leave the belt in place, tied with wire, away from the drive pulley. Small (8-9 inch) cyl pulley is for small grain, 15 inch is for corn/soy. Max with the small pulley is around 1100 rpm.

paul · Jan 19, 2016

We used to chop the straw, then rake it into windrows again after the combine. It made nice tight bales, and the broken straw absorbed better. Was good stuff.

You could wrap a tin shield out the back, so the straw doesn't hit the spreading fins, but gathers and drops into a windrow.

Paul

gbs · Jan 19, 2016

a 10-1/4" pulley will get you fast enough, a 13" will get you around a 1000 rpms either one should work under normal conditions set the rest as others have mentioned and adjust it to your crop from there,i've cut them several times and they would be clean enough to run thru a grain drill without cleaning with an F3, neighbors rotary jd won't clean them any better

4240 Turbo · Jan 19, 2016

I used to do oats and wheat, I feel that oats are lighter and bigger, if not too wet, they thrash easily, but are somewhat hard to clean since they are lighter, they will blow over long before wheat will. If there was much small (unders) I would run a screen in the tailings and clean grain elevators. This drops the small grass and weed seeds out and leaves cleaner nicer grain. As for the straw, bright oat straw is nice. In my country, straw is more desireable if NOT chopped up, but saleable either way. Chopper was always removed from my machine, uses more fuel, harder to work on, and one more thing to plug. Good luck.

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