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Oregon | Just wondering what what machines have been doing a good job in grass seed. Threshing should be on in a couple of days and got me thinking about all the different colors on the side of the road. |
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W. Michigan | The best combine for grass seed, and clover seed, for its gentleness on the seed with rubber faced rasp bars was the Allis Chalmers All Crop series of pull and self propelled type machines. Not many around these days though, maybe for a few small growers though. |
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Sw. Ill | I have an allcrop 72 id sell. No idea where you are located though |
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middle Georgia | Sod farms around my area use john deere cts machines, and sts machines. I think new holland builds a combine just for the grass seed market, but I may be wrong been several years ago since I was told about them |
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Morris, Mb. | A properly setup new holland cx new holland is hard to beat in grass. We have a cx8090 and it is a monster in grass. We don have the grass cylinder and concave in it but we are looking at getting one. It will out run our 9600 by about 2.5x. |
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Strathcona, mn | Every color runs in grass seed here. All will do the job. Red seems to have the hardest time cleaning sticks out. Personally I run a gleaner r76 and r75. The only modifications I had to do was trim the cover over the unload auger and make an extra baffle to choke the air down. They leave a very nice clean sample. As long as the swaths are formed nice they do a good job. Twin rotor new Hollands have long been a favored machine locally. |
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Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | Jd t670 or a Lexion would be my nominations. Rotors work well until things get a little though, then cylinders shine.
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southeast Washington | Back in the day Massey 700 and 800 series were great grass seed combines also alfalfa seed. Still some running in grass country of western Oregon. |
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NW KS/ SC ID | The all-crop is the best, but if you need a little more capacity, we know of a few outfits that use Gleaner Gs and love them.
Modern stuff, I hear the big new holland TX and later CX super conventionals did awesome. |
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NW Washington | I think NH and John Deere are selling their European conventional combines in the grass seed growing area of Western Oregon. I am surprised the Oregon grass seed growers here on NAT have not chimed in. I think one of them has a NH CX. A Lexion with walkers would probably be good too. |
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Crawford County, Robinson, Illinois | We cut fescue seed often in pastures with IH combines of many different numbers. We set it like wheat, IFIRC.
Secret is to have a cleaner booked before combining, as the seed would heat up rapidly and kill germination if not cleaned quickly. Have often combined during the day, and cleaned that night. If that is not possible, we spread it out in a shallow wagon like a hay rack with short sides, for example. Have also spread it over a cement floor in a thin layer if cleaning was not available in short time. I do believe I cut fescue with an IH 1460 rotary combine I had, never tried it with my 1680 I had last. We had cattle grazing when we cut seed, so never tried for high yields. Cost of seed usually paid for all basic expenses making it a bonus crop for us.
And yes, a local farmer kept his pull type AC with rubber rasp bars to cut clover and grass seeds. They were the best, and we often gave him half the seed to cut it for us. I do not know of any AC pull type left in this area, so that option is probably not available to you. |
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Western Ky. | My father cut many acres of fescue for a large local grower here with a 105 CS Deere. He had a special chaffer made from a bottom sieve as the corn special chaffer would not work at all.. I believe he made a slow down for the air as keeping fescue seed in the machine was hard to do. All of the fescue was direct cut and it seemed to work well. It was 35 years ago so memory is getting dim. |
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Camp Douglas Wi. 40miles nw of wi. dells | Here's my barn find, AC 66 was put in the haymow in the early 70s, found it last summer.
Has that fancy thing on it for dumping first row of straw behind the tire, pull the rope and dump the 2nd row next to the first row.
Going to try it out in a couple weeks on w wheat. Then I would like to find some grass seed to combine, when I got out of high school in 70, I bought a AC 60 and combine red clover for Dad and neighbors with the SH in pictures
Dan
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Stayner, Ontario | That is one beautiful big bin 66 . We have the same 66 combine stored away in the barn along with an AllCrop 90 that did 100's of acres of red clover seed cutting straight plus a roto baler in storage. |
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Who makes the best grass seed combine?
