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| I will echo everyone else. The things I stress the most is to have the crop as dry as earthly possible in a humid climate, easier said than done, and don't use to much air through the chaffer. Oats are usually light (32-38 lbs/bushel) and are easily carried out the walker if the straw is tough. If the combine is growling through the field you might want to wait till it dries more unless you have the threat of a storm knocking the crop down, lodeged oats are a real pain. If you want to save the straw it is usually best if the oats are tall to take just enough of the crop to feed through the machine correctly and come back with a haybine or mower to cut the stubble. Two years ago I had straw that was 4' tall and I tried to take it all in and only leave a 6" stubble. I lost enough oats over the walker that it would have easliy paid for an extra trip with the mower.
Hope it goes well for you. It'll take you a couple hundred feet to get it set where you want it, but be well worth the time setting it up.
Good luck and hope you don't itch to much from the dust.
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Any tips on setting up a JD 3300 to harvest oats?
