- Location
- Lincolnshire
Different wheel mark... get the right one or you really will have problems.
Beginners guide to driving a combine
- Thread starter Rob Holmes
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simon-0116
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- Location
- Sheffield
17ft on 24m, sometimes I hit it right and others in miles out. Cocks you up for rest of field.
We got a Cx two years ago, had fergies before that and they are totally different machines to set up, one tip I've found with the Cx is you need to run more fan speed in most crops than what the book says or what you'd think is right, agree with wide concave also for wheat, the new Holland seems way more efficient at threshing crops.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Of course one thing with concave settings , it does very much depend on the fitness of the crop.
an unfit crop will mean the machine has to work far harder.
When I was contract cutting we had one farmer would never let us near the place until he thought it was fit, generally when everyone else had finished. The combine output was huge compared to cutting early in the season, drum wide open, always liked cutting there!
an unfit crop will mean the machine has to work far harder.
When I was contract cutting we had one farmer would never let us near the place until he thought it was fit, generally when everyone else had finished. The combine output was huge compared to cutting early in the season, drum wide open, always liked cutting there!
- Location
- Lincolnshire.
Remember it is the art of the possible! If you feel you are not doing a good job make an honest assessment of the conditions, how wet is the straw etc, etc. Claas combines are easy to set up and I guess New Holland are the same but they won't ripen the crop or change the weather/stop the dew falling. Oh yes leave a long stubble that saves a sh!t load of hassle.
Adam@Rumen
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- Location
- Nantwich/Rishton
If you go quickly enough you can drill next years crop at the same time
Just my opinion, but I think the OP will have enough other things to worry about in the first field not be too concerned with anything other than the outside run first, with the header drives on the inside in case of not being straight enough & hitting the guards on something in the edge.
- Location
- Shropshire
It’s been said before, and it sounds obvious, but making sure the spout is in at all times when you are not unloading is an absolute must.
the cost of a new spout and lost time will be far more than the cost of a few lost grains from having your sieves one mm too wide!
the cost of a new spout and lost time will be far more than the cost of a few lost grains from having your sieves one mm too wide!
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Local chap to here said to his gaffer one day
“ Why have you got your auger out? It’s a 3 acre field of oilseed rape!!”
“ Why have you got your auger out? It’s a 3 acre field of oilseed rape!!”
- Location
- Cornwall
This, ?you'll be terrified for about 10 mins then you'll be fine....learn to listen to the machine that way when something not right you'll likely hear it
Don't put the radio on for the first day or so, then you'll get accustomed to the sound.. that way you can tell if there's an issue ..
- Location
- Shropshire
I just listen to the cricket or turn the radio off.
I never listen to music
- Location
- Shropshire
Always blow air filter and radio out daily if possible.
I tend to have the engine temp on in the display.
I tend to have the engine temp on in the display.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
You dont hear much in a CX cab, need to look at the screen to see if you are at full rpm.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Agreed but he needs to use the wheel mark towards the middle of the field rather than the one to the outer, otherwise whats left cannot be cut due to the straw swath.
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Tonym
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- Location
- Shropshire
Baler men are not saints either. I used to combine at a farm where he would have the baler in the field straight behind the combine . The bales on the headlands made it very difficult to turn on the ends. After a few words with the baler driver driver I was told to "do one" so I said OK I will cut across the tram lines (which were very deep) from now on. Next time I looked he had on hitched the baler ond was pushing the bales away from the standing crop with the front linkage. Result! and it was a lesson he never forgot as if he came into a field to bale he would bale round the headland to where I was cutting and then go down the side of the standing corn to avoid leaving bales in the way.
- Location
- Cornwall
- Location
- Dorset/Wiltshire
I’ve been driving a combine now for longer than I care to remember with varying degrees of success but the first piece of advice I was given stays with me now! “If you can keep it going in the front bit, coming out the back bit and save some in the middle bit you should be ok”
I was quite young and the advice was passed down from a contractor
I was quite young and the advice was passed down from a contractor
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
I'll remember that combining tactic!
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Careful on that one - if I use the inner tramline (thus eating up both wheelmarks with the header) on a 20' cut on 24m tramlines, when I do the outside run I'm left with a 2' wide strip between two straw swaths - almost impossible to cut. If I cut to the outer tramline, my last pass round the outside field edge is 15' so 75% of the header.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I do, but the op is on a 25' header so it should be ok. end headlands have to be watched though as the "tramline" could have drifted as it wasnt drilled in my case anyway.
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