Maybe add a rock dam as shown above and talk with your customer about having to run the head high and you will have to leave some beans.

If you want to do more work for him in the future you might suggest he buy or rent a Canadian style roller and roll the beans right after planting next year. These big rollers push the rocks down and will make for much better harvesting and relations in the future. These things may pay for themselves over time if it allows you to get down and harvest lower hanging pods without sitting on the edge of your seat.

Rollers also tend to kink last falls cornstalks for faster breakdown but still leave them attached to the ground and not blowing. We have some strip till customers who strip till 30" beans between last falls 30" standing stalks (left tall and intact as possible) who then run a roller over the field after stripping and planting beans. Pushes rocks down, kinks the stalks at the rootball and gives a great surface for platform harvesting. Brillion cultipacker roller works fairly well here also. You can pull one behind the bean planter and save a trip. The Brillion leaves a bit more of a rilled surface to catch moisture on hills.

There is a company, Riteway I believe, from Canada that shows these rollers at a booth next to ours at the Ohio Farm Science Review which is coming up.

Jim at Dawn