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Cupboard

Member Since: 21 Mar 2014
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 2971

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 HT Corris Grey

I don't know if you can grow lucerne where you are, but it's a crop that works extremely well for us. Good protein for the cows and means we've been able to stop importing soya.

23rd Jul 2016 8:43am

Flyingfocrs

Member Since: 12 Jan 2015
Location: Deepest darkest Aberdeenshire
Posts: 155

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Santorini Black

We haven't even started yet.
Hay we do for horses.
One neighbour has done his already but we'll be stacking and burning half of it as it got rained on every day before it was baled so it's trash.
The rest of us are just sick of seeing rain on every single forecast or we'll be baling and then burning it as it will never be dry enough.
Expect price of hay will be high up here in North Scotland this year, we really struggled to get a gap in the weather last year and didn't bale until August last year so wasn't the best hay but we got just about enough to see us over the winter.

We are small scale though, neighbours little Yanmar and small round bales on my ground and he does big bales on his with an old Case and Fordy.

23rd Jul 2016 8:49am

Captain Speaking

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Location: Oxfordshire
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2008 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 CSW Tonga Green

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Pickles: it's only about 30ft...looks bigger!

24th Jul 2016 8:20am

defender9

Member Since: 12 Mar 2016
Location: Fylde Coast
Posts: 1629

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 SW Keswick Green

Fascinating stuff, enjoying reading this thread. As a small boy I used to go out with a farmer friend of my Dads on his grey Fergie (think that's why I always hankered after one). Modern tractors make a Fergie look like a toy

24th Jul 2016 8:38am

Honcho

Member Since: 08 Mar 2014
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Captain Speaking wrote:
Quote:
What is it that normally makes them catch fire? Just blockage abd heat build up?

Last year's straw and the odd bird's nest! We always cleaned ours out thoroughly straight after harvest to make sure they were thoroughly dry before any ice could form in the winter. Beware pressure-washing a combine when it's minus 5

I used to work for a large tillage contractor and we always put the combines away dry straight from the last cut. We would only wash them out right before they went for the service before next years harvest.
They use three class lexion on tracks.

24th Jul 2016 8:53am

Captain Speaking

Member Since: 23 Jan 2012
Location: Oxfordshire
Posts: 159

Quote:
Modern tractors make a Fergie look like a toy

Yes....POWERRRRRRRRR!

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24th Jul 2016 9:04am

Pickles

Member Since: 26 May 2013
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3784

2013 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 CSW Keswick Green

How much "power"is that?
We.ve got 700HP+ in Aussie, but I can still remember the days when a blue Fordson Major was the gun machine,...I read the other day that it had a T model Ford engine!!!
Pickles.

24th Jul 2016 10:00am

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 20367

^^^^ You've probably got more powerful over there due to land size over there.
Over here there are some powerful machines but you'll rarely if ever see them because they aren't commonly used with their huge price tag and of course fuel use.

24th Jul 2016 11:25am

Cupboard

Member Since: 21 Mar 2014
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 2971

Honcho wrote:
Captain Speaking wrote:
Quote:
What is it that normally makes them catch fire? Just blockage abd heat build up?

Last year's straw and the odd bird's nest! We always cleaned ours out thoroughly straight after harvest to make sure they were thoroughly dry before any ice could form in the winter. Beware pressure-washing a combine when it's minus 5

I used to work for a large tillage contractor and we always put the combines away dry straight from the last cut. We would only wash them out right before they went for the service before next years harvest.
They use three class lexion on tracks.

We've stopped high pressure washing certain areas of our muck spreader because it was forcing its way past seals and filling gearboxes up with water.

Combine gets blown down after harvest (and during actually) then a water wash at the end before it's put away.
Our big issue is that one of the farms we harvest doesn't have enough storage space and are usually running really late (we can't harvest it all at once then it starts to rain so it gets put back and back) so we end up starting the maize harvest before their winter wheat is all in.

Power... our biggest tractor is 200hp out of something like a 7l straight 6. The forager is a 12l straight 6 doing 500hp. A big farm tractor on a large estate round us might be heading on for about 400hp, that's the top end of wheeled tractors or one with tracks. A Case Quadtrac is up to about 700hp if you get the big ones but they're pretty unusual.

24th Jul 2016 2:32pm

Venomator

Member Since: 25 Aug 2014
Location: Peterborough
Posts: 2087

Re: And we're off...Harvest '16! Post your harvest pics...

Captain Speaking wrote:

Well, I certainly ain't no farmer, but I do have fields all around and these things started work this morning, did a couple of passes only and then packed up for the day...

Mind you, the crop (Barley perhaps?) looks pretty rubbish having pretty much collapsed all over and being full of Black Grass...

But at least it meant I could get up close and personal...

Enjoy...

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24th Jul 2016 8:07pm

JOW240725

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Pickles wrote:
How much "power"is that?
We.ve got 700HP+ in Aussie
Pickles.

In the UK I believe the Case Quadtrac and Cat Challenger's are nearing 700hp

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24th Jul 2016 8:57pm

Maris Widgeon

Member Since: 11 Dec 2013
Location: Cotswolds
Posts: 216

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Santorini Black

Managed to wrap up some hay before it rained. It's been a nightmare trying to get the hay all baled with the farmers favourite moan causing so much grief. We need 4 to 5 dry days to get the grass dry enough to make the best hay and with it regularly raining it gets frustrating. We have been able to get 650 round bales and 500 small square bales.
That the baling done until we start the cereals next week.

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Hay put into rows to make it easy to Bale.

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On a good day I can Bale about 60 bales an hour, it is quite a therapeutic job cleaning up the fields and leaving a field full of bales
Nick

24th Jul 2016 9:11pm

Pickles

Member Since: 26 May 2013
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3784

custom90steve wrote:
^^^^ You've probably got more powerful over there due to land size over there.
Over here there are some powerful machines but you'll rarely if ever see them because they aren't commonly used with their huge price tag and of course fuel use.

Yes, We have some BIG acreages in Aussie,.....we're also experiencing some had times, because of drought in some areas.
We spend a bit of time in the Mallee, a country area in Northern Victoria,...it's been pretty tough there for the last few years
I was talking to a farmer in the Pub recently & He was telling me that He'd lost "half a milion" (dollars) last year, and looked like losing the same this year. I asked him how he coped with that, and He just shrugged his shoulders. It's a bit of a poker game, they spend BIG money fertilizing, sowing etc, then, with no rain, there's little or no return.
Pickles.l

24th Jul 2016 9:56pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 20367

Maris Widgeon wrote:
We have been able to get 650 round bales and 500 small square bales.
Nick

That's good going, at the local prices here just for the small bales that'd be £1750.

24th Jul 2016 10:51pm

Maris Widgeon

Member Since: 11 Dec 2013
Location: Cotswolds
Posts: 216

Would be nice to cash in on the value of the hay, but it will all be used to feed our own stock.
We need to see us through the winter,
3500 tonnes of silage,
500 silage bales,
700 big bales of hay,
5500 big bales of straw for animal bedding for the winter.
If we can get all this harvested during the summer months we should have a comfortable winter.we still have 750 acres of cereals to harvest in the next few weeks.
The above keeps us busy and it would help if we could put in an order for the weather that we require!!!
Nick.

25th Jul 2016 6:28am

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