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| My son drove pea combine for Green Giant in Blue Earth one summer 3-4 years ago. He was expected to be in field from 6PM to 6 AM with sometimes drive time from plant to field of an hour. He has some pretty good stories of getting combines stuck..... when plant needs peas to run, the combines WILL be moving, even if it is a sure thing to get stuck. One night he was dragging chains through water up to his waist to stuck combines. Each combine has a hopper that lifts up and dumps on truck. He said that if peas were contaminated with anything, they estimated pounds of peas so farmer got paid for them and then dumped them in field. One night he ran a skunk into combine and had to dump a almost full hopper load of peas.
The newer combines use stripper heads. One header Matt was using had a lower auger that the flighting was so thin on that it would plug up very easy and when Matt would have to reach in to clean out, he would get his arms nicked/cut up. They had a same model parts head back at shop with a newer lower auger, it would take a couple of hours to change over, it would more than save time in the long run.... and you guesses it, the plant brain-wizzard wouldn't let them change it, they only had half of the year left. | |
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Pea Harvest started in Southern MN a Few Pics
