bean puller

[Harryaroo]

I'm looking for a used bean pulle. Anyone know where any can be found?

 

[sjh]

Is a puller the same as a windrower. I'm in NY and there are 3 comming up in a auction. e mail me if you want.

 

[rrlund]

Michigan. Walk a fencerow and you'll probably find one. Are you looking for a front mount? How many row? What kind of tractor are you wanting to put it on?

 

[caterpillar guy]

No a puller has a knife to one side that cuts the roots off and lifts them slightly so they lay on top of the dirt as you push them along. I never saw a rear mount, and would think a lot of beans would be lost with one. Since the wheels would be driving over the sides of the rows as you pulled them versus the front mount being pushed ahead sweeping the rows into line between the wheels. Then your windrower would lay how ever many rows it picks up into a windrow off to the side. We used to pull a hay rake with a hitch on the back of the Cat so the rake set over to the right to get 4 rows then the H would rake those 4 rows with 4 more rows and combine 8 rows at a time. Then would rake those windrows together and burn either 8 or 16 rows at a time with each person burning 2 windrows. This got rid of the trash for planting wheat that fall. What was not planted to wheat we left the thrashed windrows lay till plowed down. Ennis is one brand of Puller. Look at sweep plows from out west they could have one wing cut off and space adjusted for row width and used.

 

[caterpillar guy]

I think with these flex heads direct cut has taken over bean cutting even on edible beans.

 

[DeltaRed]

Whe are you? there are lots here in the edible bean areas of Colorado.(Aftermarket)front mount,mid mount...

 

[rrlund]

Hope. There's a big edible bean cleaning and bagging facility two miles west of me. Big edible bean area here. They pull and windrow all of them. The only time I've ever seen them direct cut was one ungodly wet fall 50 years ago when guys were going in and trying to salvage what they could. I think I saw a story in Michigan Farmer one time, years ago, where somebody over in the thumb was trying it with navy beans, but I don't know that it ever caught on.

 

[mijohn]

rrlund, I'm west of you. They quit rising navy beans in central michigan a little better then twenty years ago. When they finished up they were trying rod pullers but we have too many stones and broke the rods. I was the bean guy at local elevator. I processed all the beans from mill to bag. West of me they raised light and dark red kidney beans but that died out in the nineteen seventies. they were a major cash crop after wheat market died around nineteen sixty in my area. john

 

[NY 986]

The golden age for edible beans in Western and Central New York was from the 1940's through the 1990's. Direct cut was becoming very big at the end. Farmers would spray Paraquat to deaden the bean plant then combine a day or day afterward. Still some navy and red kidney beans raised but it is quite isolated compared to what it was. Direct cut is also less labor and equipment intensive compared to pulling and windrowing. Fewer tractors needed as well.

 

[NY 986]

They can be either/or. The Pickett typically offered a combined unit. The Bob Equipment was either pullers or windrowers. The made far more windrowers than pullers. JD and IH offered pullers into the 1960's. Some Bob combines to be sold very soon. I think the auctioneer Kent has them listed.

 

[NY 986]

Depending on your soil a tractor such as a Farmall M would push 2 rows. A JD 3020 on average would push 4 rows.

 

[mijohn]

I remembered one year that it was too wet to pull late navy beans so neighbor went in an clipped them after the ground froze. He said it made him sick to look back of the combine to see the ground covered with white navybeans. john

 

[rrlund]

West Michigan Bean is just west of me. They bought the local elevator, but found out the leg was too tall. The beans were splitting from falling so far. They put up this new facility that's built just for beans. I don't know how many farms are involved in that one anymore. I think there were five, maybe seven involved originally. Another one was built out east of Stanton last year. That one is just owned by one family to process their own. That one's a good sized facility.

 

[sjh]

You are correct. I seen on Kent's auction site.