- Location
- Shropshire
Could be, keep it clean. Perkins ones are like hen's teeth and liable to self ignite. Keep your fire extinguisher/ pop bottle handy
Combining started 2015
- Thread starter Woodlander
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Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Could be, keep it clean. Perkins ones are like hen's teeth and liable to self ignite. Keep your fire extinguisher/ pop bottle handy
More so than a Merc engine? They're both squeezed in behind the cab collecting dust?
You sorted a sock? We haven't, have to do some last minute fabricating!
Sorry for going off topic.
No. Like you have made up with some canvass
- Location
- Shropshire
They swapped to the merc from the Perkins didn't they? The Perkins just tend to be a few years older. Good machines though, our 106 was a beast. If it had aps I think the output would have been similar to a smaller Lexion.
The straw looks good for a rotary! See my earlier post for yield & variable costs on hybrid Volume.
Edit: Margin? Too early to say, as I haven't sold it yet apart from a few loads at harvest for space at £105/t. I need over £1k/ha to break even so I'm going to need more than £105/t & 10 t/ha to profit from my Volume.
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warksfarmer
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Small header for the size of the combine? Looks like 30ft?
- Location
- Berkshire
No it's a 10.5m header, well matched to the combine.
- Location
- S E Glos
We done two WB sites and mean yield across vars is just over 10.5 t/ha.
If wheat doesn't match that then margin calculations will have everyone growing barley next year
If wheat doesn't match that then margin calculations will have everyone growing barley next year
looking like barleys are doing well then ! some big numbers here
The TFF 2015 yields survey is now online - we hope to do a better job of the results this year but as always some independant "real farmer" not yellow mag data with agenda on performance of various varieties !
participants all get the detailed results emailed to them after the season
http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?forms/tff-combinable-crop-yields-2014.7/respond
The TFF 2015 yields survey is now online - we hope to do a better job of the results this year but as always some independant "real farmer" not yellow mag data with agenda on performance of various varieties !
participants all get the detailed results emailed to them after the season
http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?forms/tff-combinable-crop-yields-2014.7/respond
Yes, fairly strong. Glacier was on hanslope series clays, and the volume ever so slightly lighter Ashley series
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Got the combine fuelled up this morning, tool box loaded , fields loaded up for mapping , header trailer on ..... Then it rained rest of day
Tompkins
Member
- Location
- NE Somerset
Cutting Quartz OSR last night at 10-11%, wanted to get it off as we are forecast a lot of rain tomorrow. 33 acres produced 61.7 tonnes, so about 1.8 t/ac.
Very pleased considering there was a few bare patches due to slugs/flea beetle!
A block of DK Imiron CL did 1.5t/ac earlier this week.
Very pleased considering there was a few bare patches due to slugs/flea beetle!
A block of DK Imiron CL did 1.5t/ac earlier this week.
spikeislander
Member
- Location
- bedfordshire
I think the osr is going to do better than people think and don't go by looks we are in a field which we thought was to thin at the top but yield monitor doesnt vary from thick to thin bits. And we are pleasantly surprised with what we are finding
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Finishing off the second bit of Winter Linseed after rain, the eagle eyed will notice we didn't get control of the poppies in this bit, will be grass next year so will sort it out then. I may have messed about with the colours a bit....
Baling Hay
Member
Who do you sell linseed too? It must be a small market?
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
This stuff is for @premiumcrops, think it goes for animal feed?
- Location
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
What are you doing with the straw?
spikeislander
Member
- Location
- bedfordshire
Gutted a good day just ruined. Caught a fawn with combine had to knock it on the head. Why it couldn't have been a rabbit. Feel proper sh!t now.
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Yes banged in early September as soon as the straw bales had left the field.
Chap locally buys it in round bales for his commercial greenhouse rhi burner setup.