- Location
- Lincolnshire
That will be worth a third combine in output.
Harvest/Yields 2020
- Thread starter Honest john
- Start date
That will be worth a third combine in output.
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
good point ,reckon it would /could be better to invest in a mobile drier rather than another or bigger combine
even better to have both!
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
shaker shoe sieve rocker arm ,none new in country according to dealer, wed/thur at best. Its obviously been a popular breakage as couldnt source a replacement and has had several modifications thus making sourcing the correct bit difficult .All of the breakers within a couple of hour drive said been sold .Eventually tracked a guy down near warwick ( 200miles away) jmt engineering , Knowledgeable chap and a real charachter according to son who went down stripped 2 machines until found one that with a bit of modification is now fitted and working but not yet in the field due to another shower. The guy was hell bent on getting us going and couldnt have been more helpful
- Location
- Bedfordshire
It depends on situation, but I think in the drier parts of the country an overcapacity combine is cheaper than a drier and the fuel to run it.
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
yes I tend to agree and thats the position we are in large s/h over capacity for acreage combine but this year we have had so few combining hours at sensible mc another combine would just have caused different problems,most years we only dry less than a 1/4 and just blow the rest last couple of years have hardly put a grain through drier other than an odd load or two ,im starting to think we will just cut the rest and blow it till the pressure is off and hire in a mobile drier for a couple of weeks after getting sown up
- Location
- Cirencester
Even with high moistures you can go and get a couple of drier fulls in a catchy harvest, snipping away at it and it's surprising how much you get cut over a week or so.
Yes, when it's dry as a bone you'll wish you had a bigger combine but quality wheat can be cut and dried down, the last lot I cut the Hags had fallen off a cliff but all the stuff I cut early and dried down is fine.
Don’t get one day here when it doesn’t rain in some shape or form. Heavy shower now after yesterday’s late afternoon and evening ones. Seasons are the wrong way around.
Fish
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- Location
- North yorkshire
To even cut at high moisture it has to be able to go though the harvester first and at the moment we don't even get that chance.
Light showers forecast always says. They are anything but light.
Bluetooth
Member
- Location
- North east
Finished the rape last night 5 weeks after being sprayed off and still loads of green stalks. 363 days in the ground. First field of wheat done too last night . Been drizzling all morning and looking same for tomorrow but that keeps changing every hour so f**k knows.
Agreed, but we have the store anyway and getting some Skyfall done at 25% meant it made milling at £25/t premium to the low Hagberg feed of the same variety cut a week later. There are good points to both excess drier capacity and excess combine capacity but keeping quality grain is a factor in the debate. There is a good reason central stores cap drying charges to encourage timely harvesting, not just to make use of driers.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Drier best for sanity.
Retirement is better for sanity
APJ
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- Location
- West Midlands(Shropshire borders)
Into our last 50ac block all going well, and a heavy shower for 30mins appeared from nowhere, that’s game over for day, so frustrating nearly there.
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
retire hell no. just had an email from the hotel we have been to several times for the annual ski trip offering no deposit booking with 14 day cancellation prior to arrival if travel restricted . thats brightened my day given me a lift and a reason to push on, itsis the best news ive had for my sanity lately ( ho ho )
fredf
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- Location
- SW Co Durham
My son went to JMT last night to get an oil cooler for no 2 combine the cooler is just borrowerd wile JMT repairs our oil cooler son said a very helpful man. No one had a second hand cooler and this was the only way but 2 trips to Warwick.
I'm moving to Dorset.
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JMT are very good , also we're good at breaking them .
Need one or the other, if not both.
It's been quite interesting to follow the vacillating financial implications of these alternatives.
In the 50s, 60s and the early 70s, with very low fuel costs, it always paid to use any drier to its maximum, in order to increase combine capacity.
Then, in the late 70s and 80s and early 90s, as fuel doubled and tripled in real cost, the best trick was to have big combine capacity to save on drying costs.
Then in the late 90s and 00s and 10s, as combines became ridiculously expensive and drying costs were still very high, it lead on to a frustrating no-score draw.
Fortunately, this time, as fuel was suddenly so amazingly cheap, it's been a complete no-brainer.
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