Combines Are Parked

rusty6 · Sep 24, 2016

Both combines in the shed and will likely be there for quite a few days. Seems we have had an inch and a half of slow , soaking rain over the past couple of days that will soak every swath and the ground beneath it. Standing crop will dry out in the sun and wind but the swaths will take a while.

Dick2 · Sep 25, 2016

Nephew in ND had a half inch Friday night; just enough to keep them out of the field this weekend.

Bruce from Can. · Sep 25, 2016

Do you fellas ever turn a swath with a windrow turner ? Or do you just wait for them to dry out on their own .

casecollectorsc · Sep 25, 2016

Not to steal from Rusty but I mounted a combine belt pickup at a angle on a old sprayer frame and ran it with a orbit motor. It picks up the windrow and fluffs it and moves it to a drier spot and 3-4 hours later on a warm breezy day you would be ready to go.

cuby · Sep 25, 2016

2.5 inches here {swcentral Ia} over night.

rusty6 · Sep 25, 2016

(quoted from post at 06:33:20 09/25/16) Not to steal from Rusty but I mounted a combine belt pickup at a angle on a old sprayer frame and ran it with a orbit motor. It picks up the windrow and fluffs it and moves it to a drier spot and 3-4 hours later on a warm breezy day you would be ready to go.

I have not heard of anybody using that method here but I've seen photos from long ago, maybe the sixties, where they made a similar device to turn the swaths a few feet over. It might be ok on cereal crops but no way on canola. That stuff mostly threshes out on the combine pickup. It also dries out quicker than cereal grains so we will be back going on canola first.
Sun is out this morning.

retired farmer · Sep 25, 2016

May not be good harvesting weather, but that is a beautiful picture.

JMS/.MN · Sep 25, 2016

Here"s one I made with a JD combine pickup....also has a cyl to pivot the unit side to side, so I could maintain width between windrows across the field.

fixerupper · Sep 25, 2016

Rusty do you have any trouble with geese sitting on your swaths? A fella we cut for by Humboldt claims he lost a crop of oats that sat in the swaths over winter. The geese cr#ped on the swaths so bad they weren't fit for sale after they were harvested in the spring.

rusty6 · Sep 25, 2016

(quoted from post at 10:10:05 09/25/16) Rusty do you have any trouble with geese sitting on your swaths? A fella we cut for by Humboldt claims he lost a crop of oats that sat in the swaths over winter. The geese cr#ped on the swaths so bad they weren't fit for sale after they were harvested in the spring.

Biggest loss from geese here is during the growing season around the big bodies of water where the geese come out to feed. Those patches just keep re growing and stay green right into harvest. Luckily they are not many. I've seen more loss from beavers. They come out of the water and gather up swath to carry back into their lodges. Just one of the reasons there is a bounty on their tails.

casecollectorsc · Sep 25, 2016

Geez, we sure think alike.....except I used a JI Case 5 belt pickup. It worked good though.

GreenEnvy · Sep 25, 2016

With the varities of wheat and malt barley we raise a rain like that ruins a swath pretty quick. It will even ruin standing crops if they are ripe. We are scheduled to haul barley next month and they want the "pre rain" stuff first. I had one neighbor install a Sund Raker on his JD swather to pick the windrow up and fluff. Thought it was a pretty neat and simple solution.

rusty6 · Sep 25, 2016

(quoted from post at 18:08:12 09/25/16) With the varities of wheat and malt barley we raise a rain like that ruins a swath pretty quick. It will even ruin standing crops if they are ripe. We are scheduled to haul barley next month and they want the "pre rain" stuff first. I had one neighbor install a Sund Raker on his JD swather to pick the windrow up and fluff. Thought it was a pretty neat and simple solution.

Yes, seen a picture of a combine pickup mounted on a pull type swather just to move the swath over onto new ground and dry out. I don't think we will lose too much except for colour and maybe a bit of weight on the standing wheat. I've only got maybe 20 acres of oats in swath soaked. Canola swath handles rain better than cereals. There are many acres of canola swaths laying in this part of the country.

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