Age a few more years Doug--getting up gets easier...and more urgent!! (at about 2:00 am.)
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My middle child and his wife did a thing.
I believe I am now legally allowed to stand outside in my shorts with a shoot pole yelling "GET OFF MY LAWN"
I believe I am now legally allowed to stand outside in my shorts with a shoot pole yelling "GET OFF MY LAWN"
They started combining the beans on our south this afternoon. The grain cart they are filling holds 1300 bushels, which will fill a semi truck plus. Most trucks will haul 900 bushels or so depending on moisture levels, field conditions, and whether or not road weight limits have been suspended for harvest.
This shows you how dry it is, beans are always dusty, but even worse this fall. Unusually dry for the last month or so.
This shows you how dry it is, beans are always dusty, but even worse this fall. Unusually dry for the last month or so.
How good are the combines? I mean, do you know what the waste factor is - e.g. what percentage of beans is lost or missed by the combines? Just curious how effective they are.
Generally, 3% and under loss is considered acceptable. Any higher and adjustments need to be made to the combine, speed of travel, reel speed, fan speed, etc.
As you might imagine, lots of variables, but once the beans make it past the head, efficiency is high.
Pods set low on plant, uneven or rocky ground, moisture content too low (pods shattering), weeds present, etc all affect getting the beans cut and into the combine.
I've been subscribed to Laura Farms on YouTube, IG and TikTok. She really has shown me a lot about farming and combining
Laura Farms
Laura Farms
I've watched some of "Laura", two others that are good are "Larson Farms" and "Millennial Farmer" of the three, I prefer "Larson Farms".
That's actually surprisingly good in my opinion. To design a machine that can strip beans off stems and separate from leaves and other debris and lose 3% or less - pretty darn good.
That's why many combines cost in the $600,000 - $1,000,000 range or more depending on the model and brand.
When you think about all the moving parts involved, some chain driven, some hydraulic and some pneumatic, couple that with the electronic sensors and controls to adjust everything on the fly, add in the raw power needed for all that, and then design a cab that is as quiet as a car with better ergonomics and controls, well, it gets expensive quickly.
(How's that for a long run on sentence)
It's funny--when talking out loud Combine, Combined and Combining are pronounced one way for farming and another for every other use. But in print--it always takes me a minute to register the difference. When i read "they started combining the beans" at first i wondered why they were putting them together!! (even with the photo!!)
One reason English is reported to be one of the hardest languages to learn.
Yeah, nobody around here actually says "combining". It's "pickin" beans or "pickin" corn.
Some will also say cutting beans.
A few of the really old guys still say "shelling" corn, but that dates to the days that corn was harvested and dried on the ear and later shelled.
Wee bit of wiring happening on my trip to the Greater Seattle area last week.... 8 of those feed the 1.5mw (2000hp) Electric motor in our new test lab. (the Scar on my hand is about 3/8" in dia.)
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500 mcm?
we scrapped about 8000 feet of that in 3 strand when we dismantled the world market center las vegas temporary tents, at the beginning of the pandemic
feb 10th to march 23rd 2020
No clue.... All I know is there was like 16+ spools of it in the way. I know 8 were run from the VFD to the motor inside the building. I believe the rest were for outside, to the Grid. The Construction & Electrical guys were behind schedule, which mostly negated my trip out there.....
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This week is quite a week, after my wife gave birth, our child has an abnormality, namely hydracephaly. The swelling has been going on since the fetus was 5 months old, the regulations in our country prohibit abortion for fetuses aged 3 months and above and the problem of doctor ethics too. until when he was born he only survived 10 days. This is my second child. But this is quite painful because we have interacted even though we were separated incubators. I hope you are calm there, son
Thank you henry
So sorry to hear this and hate that you and your wife have to go through that. Prayers to you both
My sincerest condolences to you for your loss. This is deavastating news. Chuck