Fred_Armstrong
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Has anyone on the forum know of anyone using the Bine 3060 Harvester for this 2013 season? If so any reviews or feedback? Thanks.
IT isn't more than two lawn de -thatchers welded to a frame with a treadmill at a incline...
Pretty much any harvester has got to be better than picking by hand.
Brian here at Great Lakes Hops recorded one in action that one of our customers purchased. We think the machine is decent for an acre or so. If you get too much larger than that the time and pricing don't seem to make sense to us.
I have to agree with Rudds67. On the documentation (last I checked) the machine is rated to run an acre with 2 people in 33 hours.
Amen, that's why we started the project. We made it for ourselves...then a few more for friends...then for anyone who was asking.
Bingo. We don't say more than 3 acres and at that, you would probably want to use two pickers and a single sorter. The picker really follows the K.I.S.S. principal (Keep It Simple, Stupid). The hard part was the sorter. A lot of work went into assuring you only needed a single sorter instead of multiple dribble belts. This year's version has a stainless steel belt to get rid of belt tracking adjustments.
(On a side note, the shirtless dude in the video had to have a nasty rash from all the bines scraping against him. They also need to pitch it a bit higher for the hops they were running.)
I don't recall what it used to say, but the material now says, "The Bine 3060 is designed to process up to 50 bines/hour (depending on variety and production method) with as few as 3 people. An average of 20-40 bines/hour is a reasonable rate." Some of the early results were incredible, because they were younger bines. It depends on the crew but we have found 3 can do it, 4 optimizes the process, 5 allows the highest possible picking rate with some rest for the crew and 6 means you've got someone standing around drinking beer and making everyone else work slower because the wish they were drinking a beer, too.
*Puts his mug down*
I also noticed that the shirtless guy wasn't operating under good agricultural or manufacturing practices, seeing as how his beer was sitting 1' away from him on the ladder. Thresher or not, involve alcohol in the mix with a machine like that near, and you're asking for trouble.
Now back to drinking!
Yeah, if I would have stopped doing whatever I was doing everytime I said that phrase, I would have a few less scars, the back of my hand would still have nerve endings, I wouldn't have an "interesting" dent in my skull and all my teeth would be real. But when you are 14 years old with a BMX bike sitting on top of an 8 foot high cow culvert and all your friends are there with some brews you got out of the local cement plant's vending machine...what else can you do but Evil Kenevil it?"hey guys hold my beer and watch this! "
Yeah, if I would have stopped doing whatever I was doing everytime I said that phrase, I would have a few less scars, the back of my hand would still have nerve endings, I wouldn't have an "interesting" dent in my skull and all my teeth would be real. But when you are 14 years old with a BMX bike sitting on top of an 8 foot high cow culvert and all your friends are there with some brews you got out of the local cement plant's vending machine...what else can you do but Evil Kenevil it?
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