Jim Pollock
Member
I'm still getting the 55 combine my son and I bought ready to cut soy beans. It had some rust problems in the grain pans under the cylinder, the bottom of the tailings elevator and the cover over the cylinder where the tailings enter. I made all new panels that were rusted out of steel that is twice as thick as the original. I painted them all up and got them back in and its looking pretty good. The concaves were bent a little but we also bought a parts combine from a guy at our local fair that was run in the combine derby. We are taking the good internals out and saving them and then my son is going to run it again next year. The concaves in this machine were much better so we put this concave in the good combine. The only thing is this concave has every other wire removed. My manual says something to the effect of removing some of the wires according to the crop you are running but it doesn't really say how many should be in for beans. I can take some out of the other concave and put them in this one if that's what we need to do. So how many should be in for beans? The beans are waist high and starting to turn but the beans inside the pods are still green and real soft . I know its going to be a while but How much longer after they start to turn before we will need to cut them?