Kidney beans havestor
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Topic: Kidney beans havestor
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Subject: Kidney beans havestor
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2023 at 8:50am
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Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2023 at 8:25pm
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The bean harvester is a Bob's Model 56. I owned the next size larger a Bob's 666. They were built in Stanley New York. Very good and gentle combine. It's all about minimizing the seed coat damage since kidney beans are cooked in the can. The second rate bean quality kidney beans end up on salad bars. I grew 500 acres of kidney beans for 20 years. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2023 at 8:58pm
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Neat how things are harvested, that’s new to me. I love kidney beans. What area are kidney beans raised without me googling it lol? ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: Tom59
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2023 at 5:47am
| It reminded me of a pull type peanut combine when I first saw the video. |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2023 at 7:17pm
They are common here in central Minnesota. They have a short growing season, the last thing planted and the first thing harvested. ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
AC720Man wrote:Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2023 at 7:47pm
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Growing areas are primarily western Ontario, the thumb of Michigan, Minnesota, and southern Manitoba. The harvesting process is first to cut the plant off just below the ground with a knife puller. This is done with dew on the plant so the beans don't fall out of the pod. We usually started about 4am. Beans are then windrowed with 6 or more rows on a windrow. Combining starts at noon or when the pods are dry. The Sund pickup on the video is superior to the one that in normally on the combine. The rakes are used to bring the beans up to the first spike tooth cylinder. The pan under the rakes is perforated and the rakes help to shake the ground off the roots. Mud is not our friend. The first threshing cylinder can run as slow as 56 rpm. Behind the first cylinder are straw walkers about 6' long. At that point we want about 90%+ of the beans out of the pods. A second spike cylinder runs about 30% faster and threshes the remaining beans except for a very few. Several times per afternoon I would stop the combine full , partially lift the bin and crawl into on top of the walkers. I wanted to find one or two pods unthreshed on the second set of walkers. If they were all threshed, I slowed down the cylinders to minimize the skin damage. If too many were unthreshed, I sped up the cylinders. The bin tips into the truck because augers cause a lot of damage. It's been 20 years this year since my last crop of Kidney beans. Combines are now a higher capacity rotory type. The harvesting process is very similar to peanut harvesting ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: Leon B MO
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2023 at 8:25pm
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Cool post. Every product has a different way of harvesting. I just do "corn and soybeans". Pretty boring compared to to some of the other crops out there. Leon B MO ------------- Uncle always said "Fill the back of the shovel and the front will take care of itself". |
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2023 at 8:27pm
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Gleaner sold units set up for edible beans that were used in kidney beans most had spike cylinders and spring tooth doors. The spring tooth provided protection from the rocks and hard clods that sometimes accompanied these crops. Augers were trimmed back and then 'popcorn' augers were used that had special smaller flighting to help control bean damage. Just a falshback memory when viewing the neat video. ------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2023 at 8:38pm
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Conventional Gleaner combines worked well in navy beans and other small seed editable beans. Regular combines in our area are only used to salvage beans in an extremely wet year when the alternative was to lose the crop . We did that in one field in 1992. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |