View From The Grain Tank

rusty6 · Oct 28, 2014

Plus a few other angles. I shot a few minutes of video while harvesting flax a few days ago with the 7130 Magnum and 7721 JD combine. Hoped to get a few more angles but time was short and I needed to keep that combine rolling. Couple more hours and I would have beat the rain but it was not to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3BXZIi8DoU
Flax Harvesting

gtractorfan · Oct 28, 2014

Have never been around flax. What is it used for beside linseed oil?

rusty6 · Oct 28, 2014

(quoted from post at 07:31:27 10/28/14) Have never been around flax. What is it used for beside linseed oil?

Well it is edible. I use it for baking bread and in breakfast cereal for the known health benefits. You can pay a big price for it in the health food stores or just clean and use your own home grown seed like I do. Mine won't make it to the health food stores since it is not organic. Mines not gmo, just not jumping through all the hoops for organic certification. And flax is a poor competitor with weeds so chemical weed control is a must far as I am concerned.
Right now at over $12 per bushel it is one of our highest priced grains. Unfortunately flood and frost cut the yield nearly in half.

Mike (WA) · Oct 28, 2014

Nice videos. I looked at several more of yours while I was "there". Coupla questions- it appears that you're in the "frozen North", from the looks of the country (and your accent- :>). How far north of the border? And I was thinking while watching the flax video that it would sure be easier to get around those twisty turny fields in a self propelled combine- but just assumed you didn't have one. Then I watched the 2014 wheat video- just curious why you don't use the self propelled in the flax, too?

55 50 Ron · Oct 28, 2014

Great videos. You know your way around the setting up and displaying on You Tube. Good for you. Must take a lot of thought ahead of time as to where you place the camera. The view is so steady. I would think it would be hard to keep it steady when it's attached to the combine.

Flax is so slippery. I learned that when we raised it on our North Dakota farm when I was a young lad. Jump in a truck box full of flax and you went all the way to the bottom - up to our waist in flax! Dare not do that in the big trucks of today or you would be covered in flax and suffocate.

sd pete · Oct 28, 2014

Nice video I enjoyed it.

TomA in CA · Oct 28, 2014

Flax was grown in my area of the Central Coast of CA during the WW2 years and ended about 1955. A few local farmers were said to have made $1 million back then. It was harvested with AC 60's fitted with a special flax roller. The big guys had 6 of them pulled by AC Model M's or D2's. I barely remeber the fields of blue turning brown. It was grown for linseed oil for the war effort. It was a dryland crop planted in May with a drill. A lot of erosion occurred when the wet years set in.

Moline_guy · Oct 28, 2014

Always great videos and nice well maintained machinery from you, thanks for taking the time to put them on here.

Dick2 · Oct 28, 2014

Did you roll the windrows when you cut it to press the swath into the stubble so the windrows would blow in the wind? We made our own roller with just a couple small barrels welded together and larger steel wheels on each end to hold the barrels off the ground enough to roll over the swath.

Otherwise the swaths would blow and roll into large piles and we'd have to pitch the straw into the combine with a pitchfork.

rusty6 · Oct 28, 2014

(quoted from post at 11:12:10 10/28/14) Did you roll the windrows when you cut it to press the swath into the stubble so the windrows would blow in the wind?

I actually had to quit swathing in mid afternoon Friday as it was blowing swath away onto the standing crop and into the fence line. I have a canola swath roller but don't use it on flax at this stage as it tends to shell out the pods.

rusty6 · Oct 28, 2014

(quoted from post at 08:22:04 10/28/14) Nice videos. I looked at several more of yours while I was "there". Then I watched the 2014 wheat video- just curious why you don't use the self propelled in the flax, too?

My IH axial flow is a great combine for most crops except flax. It will not feed consistently and on occasion has wrapped up so tight on the front beater that it takes literally hours with a saw to clear it. Came close to setting it on fire. I fought that for years before giving up and buying this JD conventional cylinder machine. It feeds way better.

Alberta Bill · Oct 28, 2014

Great Video
I like to see the way its happing
Flax is something I do not do
Keep up the Pics

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