Tips for Maximizing Grain Separation with Proper combine Settings
25 Aug 242m 12s

In this video, the team focuses on adjusting combines for maximum efficiency in corn harvesting, specifically targeting settings that improve grain separation and reduce losses.

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00:00 Johnny Burrell with the stream mag. I'm out here with Chad Henderson today. Chad Perkins. Today we're at our field day here in Jackson, Tennessee. 00:07 Chad came down, both of 'em came down, spent some time with us, gotta talk to our customers down here about what can we do to set these combines 00:14 to make 'em more efficient, to get more off the cob. We did it last year. We, we tried to get it, we got down about 35% horse 00:19 of corn at the field at the 1st of August This year we did it again. We planted a, about an 89 88 00:25 day corn or something like that. It's even got a white cob, which is very unusual for us. You can see it wasn't that big of an ear. About what? 00:31 175 bushel shaft? Yep, yep, yep. A hundred. Anywhere from 150 to 175 bushel. We was talking about a 16 millimeter. 00:37 So we based this old combine setup on it. Perkins did he based it up on, we're starting now with a do cal for, we got 16 millimeters 00:44 and then talking about setting up with six millimeters worth of clearance prior to that. 00:48 And then how to get your numbers through the cab and talk about the pinch point. What you think on that. Uh, that's, 00:53 that's the biggest thing about this ESA system. It's all about getting them leveled. Right. The easiest way is take a quarter inch Allen wrench in the 01:00 front between the RIFing element fifth bar down eighth inch Allen wrench in the back. 01:04 That's gonna give you six millimeters of clearance when you're at zero on your concave setting. Instead of way deer is where it's zero is zero. 01:12 And then in the back we're giving about a two inch pinch in the front. It's allowing these ears to roll on themselves 01:18 and get 'em thrashed out as it moves back through. That little bit of a pinch point is gonna slow it down and any tip journals 01:24 or anything that's left on that, it is gonna clean that off back there in the back. And then with their separation system, 01:29 with the build disruptors, you put your spaces in place and there, there's literally nothing back there. 80% of the crop is off at the time. Gives, yeah. 01:38 And with s as concave, you're able to run so much slower on the rpm. What were y'all running? 2 2 2 42 42. 42 40. Yeah. 01:46 And, and I mean this is in an environment we're not used to running with, but what we're gonna say about this 01:50 is there's always go out. You know, one cool thing is we came out here, cut about 20, 25 acres today. 01:55 We got to test out these combines to see what we needed to do going into, 'cause what we're 10 days, two weeks off from starting getting somebody like Chad 02:02 to come down and help you, fine tune 'em. Really pays off. Especially when you had these aftermarket combines like Eston Cement.

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