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Harvesting beans the old fashioned way

Brendon-KS

Brendon-KS

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Goessel, KS
Yesterday a few members of our club harvested our 4 acre field of beans at the show grounds (Goessel, KS which is 40 miles north of Wichita). It was a perfect day but the field was still pretty wet, just like they all are around here. Here's a shot of Russ driving Gerald's very nice Super C pulling the club's Deere 25 combine. The beans did very well for this area - we took 159 bushels to the elevator. We're not very serious about our "farming" and don't spend a lot on inputs so we get excited when the crops do well in spite of ourselves. It's more to have an excuse for getting our old equipment in the field.

The weather today is very different - we had blizzard conditions from around 8:00am until around 3:00pm. Lots of drifts here now so we're glad the beans are in the elevator instead of still in the field.


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Those beans look good and clean for "not even trying". Did you just cultivate or spend on spray? I'm guessing the latter.
 
They were sprayed with plain glyphosate a couple of times using an old Deere sprayer. This field has several patches of agressive bindweed and trying to cultivate can cause lots of naughty words to be spoken. I've tried it with my Ferguson cultivator but spraying is just so much easier. Besides, it is nice to have the ground more level and not as ridged up when combining so low.
 
Hand clutch on right side of tractor. Sit a bit katty-wampus with right hand on clutch to stop if needed to clear a slug, watch machine over left shoulder.

Willie
 
Actually the left side is easier to see than the right. Combines were 3 different AC 60, baler was a NH 66 and IH No.46 and Oliver No. 5 and 73 pickers Am right handed and the Right hand clutch on the JD B & A worked very good.
 
Loren, being right handed you'd want to keep your right hand on the wheel. you can look back to the left with out getting a crick in your neck. Most folks, even us south paws can drive with our right hand. There are too many folks who cannot steer with their left though, especially when looking over their right shoulder.
 

Holy cow. If a guy can't steer as well with his left as his right, then just get out of the field and go play a farming game on a computer from inside the house where he belongs! :lol:
 
Those were the ideas at the time, similar to the notion that you had to have left-handed thread on the lug nuts on the left side of the vehicle or else they would come unthreaded from the rotation of the wheel.
 
Some of us the neck turns easier one way that the other, I personaly can turn my head farther to left than right. Makes bad seeing at some intersections.
 
(quoted from post at 20:07:36 11/25/18) Hand clutch on right side of tractor. Sit a bit katty-wampus with right hand on clutch to stop if needed to clear a slug, watch machine over left shoulder.

Willie
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I agree that the sickle on the left side was designed for tractors with a hand clutch. We had a chopper once with the pick-up on the right and being pulled by a WD-45 Allis. Try working that hand clutch and looking over your right shoulder at the same time!! Nearly impossible!
 
But the Allis machinery with the left hand cut was built and designed when Allis had no hand clutches so did they design those pieces then for the Deere or the few Case and Moline that had a hand clutch ?
 
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