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gregk

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My local club does a threshing demonstration on labor day. This year some storms moved through and layed down all of the oats as they were starting to turn. Well to make a long story short, the grass grew up through them and I am out there with a sickle mower trying to go against the grain and get it mowed off. Since the binder wouldn't work on this mess, is there any way we can thresh just loose oats with some foxtail and some weeds in it? I have heard that it is tough to do but I don't understand why. Our other option is to get a rake and a round baler and make some oats hay and hope to sell it. What would you do?
 
What would you use to chop it? Like a silage chopper maybe somehow? I'm all ears, or eyes I guess.
 
Well, normally I do it like the Amish, bind them shock them, when dry load on wagon, store in barns or under tarps until thrashing demonstration. I have cut with a sickle bar, raked and baled too. Loose some of the oats that way though. Also have used a swather to windrow oats right behind sicklebar. Swather is a series of metal slats that attach behind the cutter bar, and roll oats into windrow as they fall behind cutterbar. THe nice thing about processing oats this way is that the entire mass dries before thrashing, making it easier to separate oats from weed products.
 
Well, normally I do it like the Amish, bind them shock them, when dry load on wagon, store in barns or under tarps until thrashing demonstration. I have cut with a sickle bar, raked and baled too. Loose some of the oats that way though. Also have used a swather to windrow oats right behind sicklebar. Swather is a series of metal slats that attach behind the cutter bar, and roll oats into windrow as they fall behind cutterbar. THe nice thing about processing oats this way is that the entire mass dries before thrashing, making it easier to separate oats from weed products.
 
Well, normally I do it like the Amish, bind them shock them, when dry load on wagon, store in barns or under tarps until thrashing demonstration. I have cut with a sickle bar, raked and baled too. Loose some of the oats that way though. Also have used a swather to windrow oats right behind sicklebar. Swather is a series of metal slats that attach behind the cutter bar, and roll oats into windrow as they fall behind cutterbar. THe nice thing about processing oats this way is that the entire mass dries before thrashing, making it easier to separate oats from weed products.
 
Cut with haybine or discbine in windrows with crimper rolls opened up, let it dry one day or three then pick it up with hayhead on silage chopper (no screen every other knife removed-leave as long as possable) after in the chopper boxes run up an elevator and thru the threshing machine. Can end up with very clean grain and easy to use straw.
 

You can feed the thresher with a pitchfork. Be careful, Daddy got too hot doing that one time.
Does anybody have an old dump rake? Rake the oats into windrows, then go up the windrow and make little piles with the dump rake. If you don't have a dump rake, use a side delivery rake, make big windrows, go along them with a wagon and pitchfork the oats on the wagon(or trailer).

KEH
 
yes,you can,might have to crank up blower speed.back when i ran my old all crop, and had a deal like this ,i would take sycle off and install pickup reel.cut and windrow as the others say,and pick it up.if you watched it close you could get it where oats would thresh,but the weeds wouldnt because they were not dried.if you had to do it on a certain day like yourself that may not work though.making hay would certainly be easier.even if you do thresh them they probably wont be much good,.you may consider just threshing the cleanest,and having a baling demonstration also.
 
Greg, if you want to be authentic to the era you are trying to recreate you could mow and windrow the oats, let them cure, then load them on a wagon with a hay loader. You could then pitch loose oats into the thresher. It wouldn't be as easy as pitching bundles but I would guess that is what was done years ago when they ran into the same trouble as you have because you know they did at times. Mike
 
Ya know that is what I thought, just throw them in there loose. the problem I have is I am not good enough friends with anyone with the good equipment. I just like the old stuff I don't have all the new resources. I finished mowing and did some raking into windrows tonight, we'll see what it turns out like!
 
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