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ccjersey
Posted 8/3/2012 19:14 (#2520713 - in reply to #2520696)
Subject: cleaning seed with combine


Faunsdale, AL
If you're set up to handle bulk seed, it works pretty well. We usually clean oats for drilling in pastures etc in the fall here. If they're clean enough, we just load them and plant. If not, we set up an auger out of the bin in our case and usually have the corn head on the combine because it's a little easier to keep the seed in it. Just put a piece of plywood behind the snouts in the center and drop the seed behind the auger. Leave the shafts that run the head disconnected and let the feederhouse chain take the seed into the combine. Wouldn't be much trouble to rig up a small hopper to put on the front of the feederhouse. I probably should do that this fall so it would be easier to put the combine back in the shed when we are through with a batch.

Sometimes the cylinder rethreshes some hulls off the oats, so we usually close it down tight and run it about like we would when combining out of the field. You can set your chaffer a lot tighter when you don't have to deal with all the straw.

In our case we can haul 300 bushels in our old bulk feed truck and hold another 200 in the combine, so we can do close to 500 bushel batches. Lots simpler than bags as long as we have something worth planting. Sometimes we have more of a 'pasture mix' with vetch, Caley peas, black medic, ryegrass, oats etc. When working with that, we keep the air down really low and try not to blow all the light seed out with the chaff. This is planted into permanent pastures, so none of those are any problem to us.

Edited by ccjersey 8/3/2012 19:22
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