Wet Harvest
Recommendations
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1. With wet and laid crops, it is even more important to get a good cut and feed
into the combine. Check the knife and fingers regularly, paying particular
attention to the knife to finger gap (keep adjustment).
2. To allow the cutterbar close to the ground when picking up laid crops, the skids
under the bar must be raised into their highest position. This will also reduce the
amount of soil sticking to the underside of the cutterbar.
3. Do not try to go too low with the cutterbar in laid crops. You only need to place
the point of the lifter on the ground. If you go too low, the point of the lifter will
lift and hold the crop down.
4. As soil and other foreign objects are more likely to enter the combine in a wet
harvest, it is vital that the stone trap be emptied at least daily. The worse the
conditions, the more frequently this should be done.
6. When emptying the stone trap also check that the APS concaves are clean. To do
this, simply open the concave before emptying the stone trap. Under the
concave is the preparation pan. This will become dirty as wet grain and soil
passes over it. The dirtier it becomes, the less effective it will be, and hence, the
dirtier the sample will become. With wet grain it is important to try to keep to a
cleaner sample than normal, as you then waste less fuel drying chaff etc.
7. If the preparation pan is dirty and gummed up, this is your first indication that
further cleaning inside the combine may well be required. When cleaning the
rest of the combine, follow the path of grain through the machine, and open
covers as you come to them.
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