Small (tiny) combine - pull type - for grains?

[paulsharvey]

BOAZ: A Mini Wheat Harvesting Machine - Countryside

Add to Favorites By Benjamin Hoffman Choosing the right mini wheat harvesting machine for our small-scale operation took research. We settled on the BOAZ mini-combine. Bob Mowdy and I have …

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Here is article, with mixed review, of a BOAZ miniature wheat harvester.

 

[LHF2019]

If Old and obsolete is not your thing I believe the one you’re looking for is a JD 9601. I would love a pull type combine to mess with.

 

[t1kilo]

I spent time looking for something similar a few months ago. I’m not planning on doing much more than 1/3 to 1/2 acre, so it would be really hard for me to justify the expense of a pull combine. In the end, I decided to cut with a scythe and I’ve been working on building a thresher in my spare time over the past 3 months or so. I got the basis of my idea from this video.

I designed a 2 stage model and am using a stationary motor. Chaff will be dispensed out the side of the machine and grain will drop into a tote at the bottom. I’m not done with it yet though, so I really don’t have any operational pics to show.

 

[FlyFishn]

I spent time looking for something similar a few months ago. I’m not planning on doing much more than 1/3 to 1/2 acre, so it would be really hard for me to justify the expense of a pull combine. In the end, I decided to cut with a scythe and I’ve been working on building a thresher in my spare time over the past 3 months or so. I got the basis of my idea from this video.

I designed a 2 stage model and am using a stationary motor. Chaff will be dispensed out the side of the machine and grain will drop into a tote at the bottom. I’m not done with it yet though, so I really don’t have any operational pics to show.

Excellent input. I am very interested in your idea and progress.

From the sounds of it I think you are addressing one major question I had with the idea of cutting in the field and transporting for processing. I am not sure that we will get to the point of having even 1/2 acre of any particular variety/crop so if those are the numbers you are working to and are going down the road of transporting the cut crop to process out of the field that interests me very much. Can you elaborate on your thought process on this?

The contraption in the video with the powered drum to do the threshing looks like it may be effective on a small scale. However, how does that sit with your numbers on the acreage/production over those acres? What are your transportation plans - both the fresh cut crop to where you process and the chaff post-processing? Do you have a thought process on how you are going to feed the crop through the threshing process at a volume that meets your estimated production?

 

[airbiscuit]

We had a John Deere 25 or 30 pull type combine. it wasn't very big and did a good job. All I remember doing for maintenance was greasing and replacing the occasional mower section. I don't think there would be much for maintenance other than (standard) belts or bearings.

 

[CalG]

We had a John Deere 25 or 30 pull type combine. it wasn't very big and did a good job. All I remember doing for maintenance was greasing and replacing the occasional mower section. I don't think there would be much for maintenance other than (standard) belts or bearings.

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hardly larger than a dedicated swather!

Versitile self propelled swathers used to go mighty cheap!

 

[CalG]

At the scale of the op

a combination machine is just asking too much. Separation of functions would allow proper drying in stooks or in a shed. Weather consideration and moisture content being what it is....

Over moisture grain in a bin is a waste of effort. Sprouting, mold, and heating. Dry the heads , then thresh. winnowing is the dirty work!

 

[airbiscuit]

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

I grow a couple acres of buckwheat per year. I cannot fathom the work involved in hand threshing 1/4 or 1/2 acre. . You are talking over 500 pounds of seed!

 

[CalG]

I grow a couple acres of buckwheat per year. I cannot fathom the work involved in hand threshing 1/4 or 1/2 acre. . You are talking over 500 pounds of seed!

In a comparison of scale.

The wife and I picked 300 pounds of ripe peaches from two trees. (one more to go) The picking took less than an hour, total.

There is lots of work ahead "putting them by", but, just talking harvest work to tonnage ;-)

The drier is full and won't get this batch dried until tomorrow evening.
Jam and "fruit leather" tomorrow.

To bad fruit doesn't store like grain.....;-)