3300 and clover seed

Animal

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Have any of you had any good luck combining clover and getting a clean sample from a 33or44 hundred series combine? I do have a clover screen for the 3300. I like to use my allcrop when time permits, but the way this year is going we are farming between the rain drops
 
If you have a clover screen you have a head start. The next thing you will need are some concave closure strips. These strips convert your open concave to a closed one. Good luck finding some. You may have to get some from a 4400 and cut them down (if they are available). Mike
 
I just looked at jdparts.com and there are two plates listed for a 3300, depending on serial number. Neither are available. Neither are any available for a 4400. Odds are you will have to manufacture something to work. Mike
 
Sad thing is I threw a set of them away ten years ago when I moved. They came with a 3300 we bought on a sale and they looked unused. If I still had them I would let them go for the shipping but when you move 850 miles you can't take everything. Tom
 
not a JD but here is a shot of the sample from one of mine in alfalfa,, very close to running sweet clover seed,,, I do use a fixed sieve screen, other than that nothing else is changed but settings,, hope you post some shots of yours at work good luck,,
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Fellas, where can I find a picture of these closing strips so I know what I am looking for?
 
I have ran clover through a JD 7700 but the clover was windrowed first. If your direct cutting it will be hard to get the clover heads dry enough to thrash completely. I did not used anything on the concave. I ran the cylinder speed wide open. I made card board covers for the cleaning fan intakes on both sides. I ran the fan speed as slow as it would go ad then blocked the fan intakes with the cardboard. I then just cut small opening in the cardboard until I had the air flow I wanted. You will not get as clean of sample as you will with an AC all crop but you can cut much faster. I spread the clover seed out on a tarp laid on a flat bed wagon. I made the seed only be several inches thick. I let it dry for a few weeks under cover. I then opened the top rear cover on the feeder house on the combine and took a piece of plywood an laid it so it would funnel the seed back into the cylinder. I ran the separator without the feeder house turned on. I took the header off so I could pull the wagons right up to the front of the feeder house. I slowly shoveled the clover seed/trash mixture back through the combine. This thrashed all of the heads that had been too green the first time. I then just ran the see through a Clipper seed cleaner. The germination was real good and I had about 300 bushels of clover seed to sell.
 
On a gleaner they are called filler bars or filler strips, just flat steel with holes to bolt on between the rasp bars so the spinning rasp drum is more of a solid, closed, drum.

Same thing?

Paul
 
These plates go on the concave to fill up the space, making it (more or less) a closed concave machine. I have some for a different combine and they don't look like they would be hard to make. The factory ones snap in place but it wouldn't take much to make some that would bolt in place. They are needed for direct cutting clover seed which is the way it is done in my area. There are no windrowers around here. Mike
 

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