glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Contractor dumps 40ft header
- Thread starter glasshouse
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glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I have never sprnt more than £45k on a combine
Can’t afford to waste ground
bit of a nuisance if you ever decide to go back into stock though. I’m wondering if I’m guessing the right farming family with 24m gaps. Ford and NH advocates?
ollie989898
Member
Don't they grow some specialty crops though.
Douglasmn
Member
Is it that stupid? I see plenty working in the Scottish Borders and they seem to work pretty well even on the undulating land here. Pretty sure that whatever size combine you have is clearly the best though
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
I have never spent more than £450 on a combine
Yes. Lots of grass seed, peas and an organic client.
ollie989898
Member
Ah, I thought that was the case. In those crops I suspect a draper is even more useful than a conventional header.
- Location
- West Wales
“10ft header is best for grass seed as the wobble box arms break if you go any wider”
Is what I’ve heard before.... bullsh|t!!
They don’t swath the grass and then pick up with a draper once it’s dried out then?
I think they still stripped all the grass this year.
I would like to see a 40ft swath of hay dropped on the ground and how much work was needed to deal with it, other than pushing into a heap
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Next time you are down I will show you Cornish hedges, narrow lanes, Granite gateposts and sloping ground. Takes a bit more than a chainsaw to solve the problem.
This is true, wouldn’t want to get into some of Martin and Bridget’s gateways with our combine! Perhaps I generalised too much, hear the argument in these parts though.
I think they still stripped all the grass this year.
I would like to see a 40ft swath of hay dropped on the ground and how much work was needed to deal with it, other than pushing into a heap
I’ve never heard of a 40’ header on a straw walker combine - you’d never get the swath under the baler tractor for a start. What width is yours?
I know some of the barley that was cut green was spread 6 times until it was dry to bale. You can split a Class lexion hybrid swath, pretty sure you can't on a NH CR. that makes quite a difference at 40ft.
My 24ft swaths of grass took a week last year to dry out. I didn't bother this year, chopped the 2nd years and pushed the first years. I will chop the lot next year.
My 24ft swaths of grass took a week last year to dry out. I didn't bother this year, chopped the 2nd years and pushed the first years. I will chop the lot next year.
- Location
- Northumberland
Goggles
Member
- Location
- Hertfordshire
That is very impressive
- Location
- North West
could have done with a MacDon today ?, didn’t do to bad scraping it up with my little 25’ header though.
- Location
- herefordshire
does he manage the estate around ludlow race course with yellow combines