Viners

Jeremy in DE · Dec 15, 2014

It seems at least some here enjoy pictures of equipment and practices from other agricultural areas of the country. So here are two pictures from Delaware of lima bean viners.

Despite being a tiny state, Delaware grows a significant percentage of the US green baby lima bean harvest. That said, overall limas a pretty small crop so I'm guessing not terribly many see viners regularly. Here they are also used for pea harvest so I assume they are also common in pea country.

I should note these are just pictures I took near my home. They're not my machines.

WI Dan · Dec 15, 2014

We had them here in WI. I remember being awoken at night as a kid - watching a dozen of the "pea-pickers" lumber down our county road. A traveling band of harvesters that had a narrow window of opportunity when the peas are ripe. I think their top speed is 15 mph. They ran 24hrs a day for a month or so.

Gotta be boring to drive but they do a good job. Nearly finished product - right off the machine. Only needs washing before they can process them into sell-able product.

rockyridgefarm · Dec 15, 2014

Lodi canning in Lodi WI has several of those. Also Del Monte and Hartung. They also have Oxbo Byron ear corn pickers with 8 and 10 row heads for picking seed corn and sweet corn. They're a LOT of money for being glorified elevators with corn heads.

Tech 7 · Dec 15, 2014

Yes several fleets of those around here for peas and beans. Hydraulic drive everything and I mean everything. I was called out to repair the air conditioning on one a few years ago....fan for the condensor was driven by a hydraulic motor.
I remember them "thrashing" peas when I was a kid. The combines were tractor pulled and they picked up the peas from windrows. I never envied those guys that swathed them.....REAR mounted 3 pt. hitch swathers. They ran backwards all day and night.

Tom in TN · Dec 15, 2014

Back in the early 1970's, a friend of mine grew English peas for
Libby's near Rochester, MN. Libby's provided the seed, specified
when to plant, what fertilizer to use, and when to harvest.

Libby's swathed the peas and then a pea-picker (viner) picked up
the swaths and stripped the peas off the vines.

Libby's also had a processing plant in Rochester. I loved the
smell of that place.

Tom in TN

SweetFeet · Dec 15, 2014

Both nice photos. I'd never have guessed that lima
beans are grown in Delaware. We like baby lima
beans.

Yes, that machine does remind me of the pea-bines
around here. Perhaps they are the same machine, I
haven't seen one up close.

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