Yipee!

Allan in NE · Jul 31, 2011

Wheat's in the bin.

Now I can quit worryin' 'bout those nasty lookin', hail-laden clouds that come over every night. :>)

Allan

Anonymous-0 · Jul 31, 2011

Just had a little storm go thru and it looks like someone made a pass across the area with a street roller about 30ft wide. Some corn did OK but rape and grain is flat on the ground. Does the combines pick that stuff up or is it just lost?

Allan in NE · Jul 31, 2011

The fella that owns these 3 machines just bought those 40' MacDon headers.

I was so darned worried about my gates not being wide enough; heck, they just lift the header over the fences. :>)

They will cut at ground level and 'flex'.

Allan

omahagreg · Jul 31, 2011

Good to see you can mix up the color on the equipment!

IaGary · Jul 31, 2011

Morning Allan

I always wondered why they don't make headers lift just a little higher for just that reason.

I have a 25' and sure wish I could clear the fences with it.

Some fields I have to pull the thing into still need about 6 more inches of lift.

I have to pull into a couple of fields with the head on the cart then put it on the combine. You can pickup most of what gets knocked down but would sure make life easier not taking the header off and back on every field.

Gary

Anonymous-0 · Jul 31, 2011

You can get most of it by running the
header all the way down go very slow
and against the fold of the down grain.
It's a tough job, hard on the combine and
down grain usually is wet as it will not
dry properly.

Billy NY · Jul 31, 2011

Sometimes the oats around here either get too tall or rain storms knock em over. Sometimes its a combination of both, one year during spraying, they also applied some fertilizer, it got tall crop looks great, but right before harvest, some of it lays down, even thought it might have been deer. Seems when it grows tall, you obviously get more straw, that and cutting as low as possible, but it also wants to lay down. Appears as if the weather or deer know when you plan to harvest, because one day the field looks picture perfect, the next, its littered with lay down.

We put these guard extensions(or is what I call em) on the grain head, JD 6620 & 12' head, it works pretty good, if you hit the dirt, they cam over and you have to manually reset them, when combining around here, you have to keep an eye on the cutter due to hills and varying terrain. I forget how many we put on, you don't need one for each guard, but just enough to lift the stalk, so the reel draws it in, works great and recovers all that seeming lost grain and straw.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 31, 2011

Congratulations on your harvest it's a great feeling. Sometime I going to work a wheat harvest out west maybe when I retire. I love harvesting crop it's usually fun.

Brian G. NY · Jul 31, 2011

Now, that is mighty impressive.
A great picture!

larry@stinescorner · Jul 31, 2011

now you can kick back and play that guitar! Send us a tune when you get a chance we havent heard you in a while

fixerupper · Jul 31, 2011

Yes, I'll bet it is a good feeling. We midwestern corn/bean farmers worry about hail a little but it's nothing like the western states just east of the mountains. About the only time we fear hail as much as the western wheat farmer is when our soybeans are dead ripe and dry.

Those MacDon flex headers are a real marvel in engineering. Gotta work with one to really realize it. I'm sure some of those engineers spent some sleepless nights figuring it out. There's a learning curve to go through when you set one up for beans, but once the head scratching is over you won't want to use an auger head again, in my opinion. One frustrating lesson I had to learn was those soybeans feed just as nicely when they are tough and wet as they do dry. No slugs, no thumps, just silence punctuated by warning buzzers after the combine pulls down and kills.

One way to get the head over a fence post in a moderately wide gate is to come in off center, tilt the head and swing the high side over the post. SLOWLY of course! Jim

dixon boy RL · Jul 31, 2011

what happened to the gleaner combines you loved

Paul from MI · Jul 31, 2011

Sure makes my old Allis 60 with a 5' head look TINY!!!

RodinNS · Aug 1, 2011

Uffff. Big green super seeder! What happened the Gleaners, or are you just short on time this year?

Rod

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