Combines Harvesting Edible Beans

gnu

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Is your rotor new enough that you can install vine spikesIJ If not, NH can provide weld-on mounts for them.
 

Walt

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My combine is a 1993 and so it has the latest style rotors with the sockets for the agitator pins. We have tried pins and no pins in the threshing area with a full set of short pins in the separating area. Neither arrangement provided satisfactory results. Do you have some specific recommendations as to length, location and number of agitator pins.
 

gnu

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Dried down, windrowed bean vines are very tough, and the agitator pins are like clubs instead of cutters when you're in them. No specific configuration I can think of, but they need to be like brand new. (clean hex shape) You might consider bolting a few sickle sections to the bracing on your rear grates and let them protrude thru. I've done this on a couple of Case IHC with keystock grates in ropy, green soybean vines, and it seemed to help a lot.
 
 
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