Trouble-free spinning, and how I invented it...

[Stalker62]

It is around this time year, that the old Jimny gets dragged off the scrap heap, and is brought into service once more for spinning of the feed.





The feeders are all loaded, and the birds have now found their way around the whole estate.

Spinning has proved to be a Curate's egg. More often than not, it jams with the chaff from the wheat.

So, I have invented a solution.

Put a sieve over the drums, and then pour the wheat into the drums. The sieve catches the bad stuff and the motor on the Jimny no longer fouls.

It is quite a complex procedure, and because I am fairly sure no one has ever thought of it before, I have produced some images to help explain the genius.


Drums, with the sieve over one of them (it's the fourth drum from the left, just next to the black bucket).



Close up of the sieve.




Proof (if proof where needed) that my invention works.






Jimny fully loaded with troubles-free spinning wheat...



Sometimes the possibilities of my inventiveness is boundless.

I shall be contacting the Patent Office first thing on Monday morning.

Am fairly sure, this has never been seen before...

 

[Stalker62]

Yeah...

Fairly sure...

 

[Will the chippy]

This needs to be on dragons den. You'll be a millionaire Rodney.

 

[Stalker62]

This needs to be on dragons den.

On it...

 

[BenBhoy]

It is around this time year, that the old Jimny gets dragged off the scrap heap, and is brought into service once more for spinning of the feed.

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The feeders are all loaded, and the birds have now found their way around the whole estate.

Spinning has proved to be a Curate's egg. More often than not, it jams with the chaff from the wheat.

So, I have invented a solution.

Put a sieve over the drums, and then pour the wheat into the drums. The sieve catches the bad stuff and the motor on the Jimny no longer fouls.

It is quite a complex procedure, and because I am fairly sure no one has ever thought of it before, I have produced some images to help explain the genius.


Drums, with the sieve over one of them (it's the fourth drum from the left, just next to the black bucket).

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Close up of the sieve.


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Proof (if proof where needed) that my invention works.


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Jimny fully loaded with troubles-free spinning wheat...
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Sometimes the possibilities of my inventiveness is boundless.

I shall be contacting the Patent Office first thing on Monday morning.

Am fairly sure, this has never been seen before...

You're next invention should be a bucket/bin lid....

 

[Smellydog]

I'd of gone to the patent office first ole chap . Now everyone will be onto it

 

[baguio]

The question I would be asking is why that crap is in the wheat to start with?

 

[Foxyboy43]

Wow! Like really Wow!
Sometimes, just sometimes, the ingenuity of the SD collective membership blows me away!
In the spirit of that very same camaraderie so common in our little group, may I humbly suggest the Jimny windows and rear door are left wide open as you trundle along - to also scatter the…err….”additional wheat” you have so cleverly arranged on the Jimny’s floor, seats and tailgate? You may even wish to turn your trouser pockets out as well….
You are welcome!

 

[wytonpjs]

The question I would be asking is why that crap is in the wheat to start with?

Ah, you have never done a harvest then!

One of the best things I did decades ago (whilst still in uniform) was to offer a farmer who had given me permission to shoot over his land my assistance during harvest. I duly arrived at the appointed time and place expecting to be put in a tractor and to lug off-loaded grain back to the farm (I was a regular user of his tractors to assist out on our shoot) but no, he beckoned me into the combine's driver seat (big Claas machine), did one run down the length of the field, one running off-load, told me what wanted as the upper limit for "grain going over the back" (acoustic sensor - who knew), before jumping out. Six hours later I was let out! For, the rest of the week I shuttled 20-ton trailers to/from the farm and worked the Matbro in the sheds - a lot less stressful!

Driving a combine is like patting your head whilst rubbing your stomach whilst trying to recite some complicated formulae - fecking difficult and I consider myself quite capable. Not only do you need to cut straight, but you need to "fly" the cutters to deal with the ground contours whilst speeding up and slowing down as the yield across a field is not even. Thankfully, during the off-load, it's the tractor driver who does most work in brimming the trailer - all the combine driver has do do is to add yet another distraction to the symphony of tasks he has to conduct. Honestly, I struggled but to the farmer, it was his rest break and an opportunity to make calls and do "office admin" WHILST harvesting!

Back to your point - it's not just grain that comes out of the hopper and I think you'll be surprised how must chaff and short-section straw makes it! However, the worst and so-called "sweepings" are the stuff that gamekeepers rely upon rather than the best milling grain to feed their birds.

 

[Stalker62]

However, the worst and so-called "sweepings" are the stuff that gamekeepers rely upon rather than the best milling grain to feed their birds.

Ain't that the truth...

 

[baguio]

Ah, you have never done a harvest then!

One of the best things I did decades ago (whilst still in uniform) was to offer a farmer who had given me permission to shoot over his land my assistance during harvest. I duly arrived at the appointed time and place expecting to be put in a tractor and to lug off-loaded grain back to the farm (I was a regular user of his tractors to assist out on our shoot) but no, he beckoned me into the combine's driver seat (big Claas machine), did one run down the length of the field, one running off-load, told me what wanted as the upper limit for "grain going over the back" (acoustic sensor - who knew), before jumping out. Six hours later I was let out! For, the rest of the week I shuttled 20-ton trailers to/from the farm and worked the Matbro in the sheds - a lot less stressful!

Driving a combine is like patting your head whilst rubbing your stomach whilst trying to recite some complicated formulae - fecking difficult and I consider myself quite capable. Not only do you need to cut straight, but you need to "fly" the cutters to deal with the ground contours whilst speeding up and slowing down as the yield across a field is not even. Thankfully, during the off-load, it's the tractor driver who does most work in brimming the trailer - all the combine driver has do do is to add yet another distraction to the symphony of tasks he has to conduct. Honestly, I struggled but to the farmer, it was his rest break and an opportunity to make calls and do "office admin" WHILST harvesting!

Back to your point - it's not just grain that comes out of the hopper and I think you'll be surprised how must chaff and short-section straw makes it! However, the worst and so-called "sweepings" are the stuff that gamekeepers rely upon rather than the best milling grain to feed their birds.

Well, I was always taught that if you want the first grade birds don’t feed them 2nd grade food!
You’re not the first person who has helped out during the harvest although I admit that I have never driven the combine.
As for inventing a sieve, next someone will be tell me that they have invented a hook for hanging deer!

 

[wytonpjs]

Well, I was always taught that if you want the first grade birds don’t feed them 2nd grade food!
You’re not the first person who has helped out during the harvest although I admit that I have never driven the combine.
As for inventing a sieve, next someone will be tell me that they have invented a hook for hanging deer!

But if Carlsberg made deer-hanging hooks...................................

Sadly, they don't so I'll happily settle for @Tim.243 's

 

[Tim.243]

But if Carlsberg made deer-hanging hooks...................................

Sadly, they don't so I'll happily settle for @Tim.243 's

Peter "free to collect" bits included


Some of us fix the combine and go for a ride lol

 

[wytonpjs]

Peter "free to collect" bits included………..

I remember turning with a particularly full trailer out of a field and putting my foot down….. on the retu4n trip the middle of this small lane looked like your first photo Ooops

 

[Tim.243]

I remember turning with a particularly full trailer out of a field and putting my foot down….. on the retu4n trip the middle of this small lane looked like your first photo Ooops

That was because the tractor pulled fwd, tenet farmer left it so I covered it up and checked with the landowners wife...Tim bag it up as I am not having it go to waste on this farm.
20 bags of best milling wheat or 1st wheat for the new ones at this