Soybeans

Beans are down to 10 percent moisture, stalks are not green but very tough. Yesterday afternoon the combine cylinder choked so tight it took nearly an hour to get it cleared. Hate to see the dry weather pass but think I'll wait until monday to try again. Unpluging combine cylinders ain't a job for old guys. Joe

It isn't fun for younger guys either!

If it's a green one, put the peg in the slow speed for the cylinder, drop the concave to wide open and give her a try.

Forgot one step - leave the peg out and run the variable way down slow; then put the peg in slow-speed and try it.
Our beans are down below 6%, but we are done. (SE So Dak.)

Wasn't plugged too bad if it only took an old guy an hour to unplug. I've plugged them up so bad it took days to clean out.

Joneil, I'm one tough old guy. Joe

Lol, Guess I should bite my tongue and stop messing with you if you're that tough.

Had years like that, no fun. Beans are 7%, stems are so dry they come out litte busted bits with no chopper on, just fluff left. Fastest I've driven in beans this year.

Basically done with the beans, got 4 acres to get 5 miles from home, doesn't fit timewise to go for them this afternoon any more, see if the rain comes overnite or not.

But - I remember those days. No fun pulling out a slug every round or so....


--->Paul

Harvested mine today. Have yet to find out the moisture and yield.

You check the moisture AFTER harvesting beans B&D?????

I will never forget this years soybean harvest. Started Tuesday and ran a couple of semi loads and delivered one load Wednesday early a.m. (110 miles to elevator.) Got half way there when I started having some serious chest pains so diverted to Maumee rather than Andersons River elevator as I knew that there was a large hospital in Maumee near the elevator. By the time I got to the elevator the pains are all gone so I unloaded and started home. I must be O K. Got back, fueled the combine, washed the cab windows and went across the road and started combining. After about two bins full the chest pains are coming back and I thought that this is stupid. So I drove the combine back and put it in the barn and got in the pick-up and drove to the hospital. Wishfully thinking that they would check me out and send me on my way back to the field. "WRONG" The first thing they did was take everything I was wearing off, slaped my hind end on a gerney ran a I.V.in each arm and hooked me up to a EKG monitor with so many leads on it I felt like an air seeder and informed that I would be here at least overnight. All this time my wife is in San Diego with three of her girlfriends and I am wondering how to tell her without her going ballistic. No cell phone service in the hospital as there is too much lead in the radiology dept. I waited till about 7:00 pm California time to call her as I knew that if she could not reach me on my cell phone and nobody answered the home phone she would have the police looking for me. I told her their was nothing to worry about that they were going to run some tests in the morning and I would be out of here. She called back in ten minutes and said she was leaving for the airport as she got a flight back and would be here by morning. (Sure glad she was able to catch that flight out or she would have chartered a jet and I would have had to pay for it.) To shorten this story up they did a stress test and a heart cath yesterday morning and everything was near perfect. The chest pains were coming from insignifcant secondary arteries and I will be back in the field tomorrow. The beans are running good and I have the best wife in the world.

I cut 12 acres yesterday and another 20 today. Lots of butter beans and green and wet stocks but the beans are running between 13.2 to 13.7 for the ones we hauled off. Funny thing is I didn't think that they were ready yet. Got another 18 field to start cutting tomorrow, Looks like all the rest of my beans are the same way. Looks like its going to be a long hard cutting season. You may have to check your cylinder bars for ware, Don't know your combine but you might be able to turn them around and use the sharp side witch will pull the crop through easier. Bandit

Glad to hear every thing turned out OK. I went through the same thing in August, I knew something was wrong and after a day and a half without food or coffee and every test you could think of I finally got something to eat and some coffee to calm my nerves. The next morning they let me go home. Doctor said that I didn't have a hart attack but it was stress related, He sent me home with some (as my wife calls them) Happy pills and to take it easy for awhile. He said I should find a new line of work to do, Farming is to stressful for you to do anymore. I told him farming takes the stress out of my life and without it I would probably have a hart attack. He laughs and said that I should go to work at Walmart as a door greater for a year or two to take it easy. Whats a guy to do? Bandit

Whenever I plugged cousin's green combine he always started yelling about manure for some reason.

Yeah. Neighbour was combining his field adjacent to mine. Same seed and planted one day off. Dust was flying, seemed like a safe bet.
Beans were easy to shell from the pod and crisp/hard to bite.