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West Texas | We finally got rolling good yesterday with peanut combining after wet, damp weather for 2-3 weeks. Never got much rain but it don't take but a tenth or 2 to stop peanut threshing for a few days. We covered about 130-140 acres yesterday.
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Amadas 9960 with unload on the go system.
Dumping into the holding bin or what we call basket. 
The shaker setup. 
The shaker screen. 
What the shaker cleans out, dirt and loose shelled kernels. to be continued.....
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West Texas | Didn't want to put too many pics in one post. I used to be in dial up too....  Unloading on the go.
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After posting these I worked up an appetite! Fixing to grill some rib-eyes!!
Edited by dutch 11/1/2009 12:51
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Southeast Florida | I've forgot what dust looks like coming from the field,
I'll take a rib-eye about 24 oz. medium rare with steamed rice and some of Rafe's broccoli.
We're going to fire up the acre eaters (8010's) @ 1:00 pm today and put some rice in the bin, hopefully if we're not pushing too much water.
Edited by Fla Veggie Farmer 11/1/2009 13:00
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Northeast, Iowa | Great to see, I've been waiting on my roasted in the shell peanuts to come in. |
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Panhandle of Ne. | How are the nuts doing? They look pretty good. Are they runners? Looks like 1 of these rigs has a JD cab/steps on it. Was that a difficult changeover? Hope ya'll have a safe and bountiful harvest along with the cotton harvest also. Had another 8 plus inches of snow with a little rain the last few days. Still lack 400 acres of beets and the fields have lakes on them now. |
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| Thanks Dutch,
This is the first time for me to see the harvest of peanuts. Thanks again for posting, enjoyed it very much!!!! |
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Itta Bena Mississippi | Good to see someone making headway. How long does it take the combine to empty it's bin?
I'll take mine medium Dutch, 14-16oz, with a baked potato. I got a little overserved last nite, so I'm practicing moderation today. Tom |
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West Texas | Saw you sent me an e-mail but our internet has been down since Wednesday until last night. Those Amadas combines are built on a JD 9650/9560 or something like that frame. They are runner type peanuts. Yields are from around 4500 +. Yields are not as good as hoped. We got rain in July that helped a lot but no rain after that to be of any help. Then it turned cool/cold in September when the peanuts needed some heat to mature. All considered we're pleased. Had several fields of cotton go over 4 bales.
Edited by dutch 11/1/2009 13:26
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West Texas | I'll eat about a 12 oz with a half of a large sized baked potato and debating whether to put a can of grilling beans on or not. It's that or a salad. ( I think I'll put the beans on!)
It takes a few minutes to empty but I don't run them enough myself to know exactly how long it takes. Only time I run them is to do samples or just fill in when one of the drivers is eating. |
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Denmark | Amazing setup and equipment. Thanks for posting.
At least I now know a little of what lies behind that bag of Planter Joe´s that goes so well with a drink.
Is the working principle in the harvesters somewhat similar to an ordinary combine or how do they work?
They must be a lot beefier I guess as they probably eat a lot of dirt?
Jorn |
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West Texas | It has several cylinders with bars that have teeth across it that separate the peanuts from the vines. Peanuts then fall onto what's called the stemmer saws that take off any remaining stems. then air blows them up into the basket.
Some peanut combines use straw walkers and sieves but Amadas uses a disc system and beaters that separates hay from peanuts. |
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West Central Minnesota | I am curious as to whether you found a beet cart or not. |
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| great pics, I'll have to do the same for sugarbeet harvest. |
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Rivers, MB | Are you a BTO if you only drive the harvestor when your workers are eating???? He He!! :))
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Rivers, MB | Great pictures. Makes me hungry for peanuts. And a big steak!
Do you mind giving an approximate yield? lb/ac, bu/ac???
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Morrison, IL | Do you haul the "discharge" of the shaker away or do you spread it back on the field? Very interesting pics! Thanks for posting. |
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West Texas | Nope, just the hired help that keeps things running. I usually load the trucks etc. |
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West Texas | Don't know yet on this years result as we don't have the weight tickets back yet but we're looking at around 45-4800 lbs/acre. And that's just by using the # of trucks we're loading per field. I know some of the trucks load very heavy so end result might be better, we hope so anyway. |
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West Texas | A day after we finish a field and move equipment, people with goats or hogs will come and load it to feed. If away from roads and well back in the fields then we spread it around in the field.
Some people will actually come and ask us if they can buy it and while we are not allowed to sell it we can trade a hog or a goat for it. We will then have a nice bbq! |
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Eastern VA. No such thing as too many Magnums. | I like the big Virginias boiled. Runners are too little. Dutch, do you like the sunflower cart better or the Amadas? Can you put grain in the Amadas cart or are the screens to big? Looks like Sunflower kept everything pretty much the same after they took over Richardton. I sold mine a few years ago and now I wanna kick myself. Those things are quite expensive in good shape. I was at the Amadas factory a couple years ago and there was a pile of machines there headed for TX. I liked them better when they were blue and white. I figure a few more years they'll just be all green. |
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West Texas | Can't put grain in the Amadas. Corn might work? Don't know and never thought about it as it's a peanuts only thing?
We like the Amadas better as it gets a lot of dirt out, holds a little more and it don't catch rainwater like the Richardton/Sunflower does. Not that we have a big problem with rain, but it doesn't take much for water to collect in it.
Back when we still had the old Richardton green dump carts we cut the solid floors out and put expanded metal in them. Haven't done that to this Sunflower but we've talked about it.
Both take too much oil for these tractors. You'd think these tractor mfg's would have the smarts to know these tractors need more oil capacity for equipment with big cylinders! And I'm mainly talking about one brand as that's about all we got. Never had the MT hooked to a buggy yet. |
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Lubbock, Texas | why can't you sell the shaker discharge?
do you bale your tops and sell them or do you go back in and knock the windrows back down and spread it......I have been told you take more nutrients with peanut tops if you bale and sell then than you will get paid to replace so it is not worth it long term |
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Martinsville, Ohio | Nice pics Dutch! I have seen your operation and tasted those West Texas peanuts and ate them all winter that year.
They are good!
Ed |
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Sumner GA, Located in southwest GA, | Don't believe I have ever seen a holding tank/cleaning system infield like yours. Here that would only happen at the buying point.
Are you not having to dry? Notice you are loading a hopper bottom in the picture. Interesting operation there vs here. Other than the Expo, I have never seen a self propelled, much less seen one run. Here the tractor is king. Kinda strange not seeing those peerless wagons. I really suspect here that before long we will be loading more semi trailers than wagons. Hope it has been a goodun. |
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West Texas | We let them field dry this year although we do have the Peerless dryers and drying trailers. We have a couple of local truckers hauling for us. We used to have our own but not enough help and too much hassle to keep them running. When we do haul to our own dryer we can unload either hoppers or live bottoms. But on a good days worth of combining we can fill our dryers. These big combines have a lot more capacity then most dryers can handle. The people I work for have run their peanuts across a cleaner for more then 30 years. I've worked for them for right at 20 and out of those 20 we dumped straight into truck for 2-3 years. Then switched back to the shaker. The grade sheet proves that running the shaker is worth it.
Edited by dutch 11/1/2009 21:45
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West Texas | Well, we're actually supposed to put it back in the field but.........
Yes, we do bale the hay. Some years it pays, others it don't. This year I think it won't but were baling it anyway. Hay is cheap right now. |
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Panhandle of Ne. | one yet. We are down to 400 acres and have 2-25ton carts and a 10 ton cart already. Could use another one, but hate to spend 45-65k not knowing and hoping we don't, need these carts for another 5 years. I found a RR w/scrub chain and ferris wheel identical to mine they wanted 45k for and I gave 12k for the one I have. Seems like specialty farm eq. items, such as these carts, get real expensive in years when there is a huge demand for them. Would really like to lease one, but I figure that is impossible. |
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