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Re: Dumb question or two??
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Posted by paul on June 13, 2006 at 21:50:46 from (66.44.138.65):
In Reply to: Dumb question or two?? posted by TimWafer on June 13, 2006 at 11:52:58:
Soybeans should give you the same oil, more of it, & less issue harvesting if you want biodiesel & they grow in your area.... Swather is common in the northern states for oats, wheat, barley, etc. It cuts the crop, moves it to the middle on canvases, and makes a nice neat windrow with the straw on the bottom, the heads centered & on top. This is so the grain is protected, and can dry down. Ain't nothing else going to treat your crop nice & gentle & give you a windrow that feeds easy 7 gentle into the combine (which will need a pickup, or dummy header with belts to pick up the windrow). Cutting with the sickle bar is ok - tho you drive a lot of the crop into the damp dirty ground. Then you gotta rake it, which knocks a lot of seed off, plus leaves a ropey tumbled windrow with the seeds on the bottom/ sides. Then when you come with the combine it sucks in these ropey windrows & plugs, has wet sopts, dry seed knocks off...... Get the picture? :) I've run a swather & dummy head for a few decades here in MN, and in wet, weedy, bad conditions have done the sickle mower/ siderake as desperation in small spots. Been there, done that. If you are serious, you will need a swather with draper (the canvases) or figure out the other methods of harvesting straight-cut with the combine. --->Paul
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