Seed dressing again today, thank goodness I was under cover today. It's been a miserable day here in North Yorkshire, rain and wind all day and now my wife tells me its snowing. All I can say is thank goodness it's dark and I'm not able to see the stuff, I don't want to think about it. But after my explanation for the process of seed dressing yesterday I thought some pictures would be good. The first picture is of the output from the cleaner, I was dressing spring wheat at the time.
The second picture is an expanded view also showing the bagging off point.
The last picture shows the waste output from the cleaning operation. The output compromises small and broken grains, empty husks, weed seed and short pieces of straw.
Today was a little more difficult as I was working for two customers at two different farms and treating three different products. The first was spring barley, easy enough as it was spring barley that I was working with yesterday, though it was a different variety the settings were the same. The second grain was spring wheat, I had some changes to the settings of the cleaner but not big changes. All went well and the wheat was completed before we stopped for lunch. The last item for the day was three tonnes of spring beans. This required a full change of the riddles a bypass of the de horner and a full readjustment of the air flow inside the cleaner. Once the changes wee made I started with caution, beans are very heavy and if they are allowed to run through too fast the whole thing will grind to a halt. When that happens everything has to be manually cleaned out before the machinery can be restarted. This time everything went well and I built up the throughput carefully until I reached a satisfactory speed and we cleaned the whole lot with no stopping. Yes! I was back at base by half past three, in good time to collect my tickets for tomorrow. I'm back delivering again tomorrow, no dust for a day. I am told that I will be seed dressing again on Thursday but anything can happen between now and Thursday.
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