How agriculture works thread

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It was interesting to see the differences in farm implement dealership lots on our trip up north. Most of the lots, even in small towns, had about the same number of combines as they did tractors. Down here a few lots may have a combine or two. When we were out by Lubbock a few weeks ago, they had a bunch of combines, too. Different heads than I had seen before. I'm guessing maybe for cotton?
 
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So, after all that, are Rotary Combines more capable on hill ground or not? ;)
All depends on how you rate it and what you are comparing it to. The rotary combines provided a major reduction in grain crackage and less dockage due to cleaner grain. That advantage carries over to hillsides. The overloading of the sieves to one side does still occur but usually not to the same degree as conventional because the rotary threshing and separating mechanism pretty well distributes the grain over the sieves whereas the grain in a conventional machine starts moving downhill right after the header and there is no method of redistributing the grain. Still the cross rotor of the Gleaner does an even better job on hillsides because it more evenly distributes the grain across the combine.
 
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Back when combines used shaker seives JD made a hillside model that kept the screens flat. Now rotary combines don't care so much. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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All depends on how you rate it and what you are comparing it to. The rotary combines provided a major reduction in grain crackage and less dockage due to cleaner grain. That advantage carries over to hillsides. The overloading of the sieves to one side does still occur but usually not to the same degree as conventional because the rotary threshing and separating mechanism pretty well distributes the grain over the sieves whereas the grain in a conventional machine starts moving downhill right after the header and there is no method of redistributing the grain. Still the cross rotor of the Gleaner does an even better job on hillsides because it more evenly distributes the grain across the combine.
Very interesting. One of my local farming friends does a lot of wheat straw and runs a Gleaner. Pretty steep hills, too.
 
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If you watch any of the videos "how combines work" which includes all modern ones and the axial-flow types, you'll see under the cylinder a pan a part that moves come back and forth and designed to move the materials falling into them backwards. These are what people call shakers because they are mounted on short arms and swing back and forth whenever the machine is thrashing.
 
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It was interesting to see the differences in farm implement dealership lots on our trip up north. Most of the lots, even in small towns, had about the same number of combines as they did tractors. Down here a few lots may have a combine or two. When we were out by Lubbock a few weeks ago, they had a bunch of combines, too. Different heads than I had seen before. I'm guessing maybe for cotton?
Cotton pickers are one trick ponies. Can’t change out heads or the like.
 
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Cotton pickers are one trick ponies. Can’t change out heads or the like.
Thanks. Where I grew up cotton was just a fabric from which our clothes were made. Farmers around us grew small grains (wheat, oats, barley), corn, soybeans, flax, some mustard, sunflowers and a lot of alfalfa.
 
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Our Finnish haying girl made another nice video. I ran and made money making round bales for a few years.
 

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