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- Lincolnshire
I think the 100% spring barley idea is scrapped after two years nagging at broken down crops full of green patches. Yields fairly well and cheap to grow but what a pain.
What problems happen during harvesting?
- Thread starter FutureFarmer
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
We get short tempered at harvest time. The day usually starts alright but a few breakdowns or annoying problems combined with roasting heat and machinery that’s like sawing a leg off tends to make tempers fray.
I thought I’d spray off a field of wheat while the dryer was emptying this morning but one blasted nozzle had to block every round. Stuff like crushed egg shell kept on coming down to the end of the line and into the nozzle. Gave it a good blast with the nozzle off but still more came through. An it was one of those fancy nozzles you can’t get apart to give a good clean without nearly destroying it. What an effing annoying thing it was. Nearly thrashed it with a branch.
I thought I’d spray off a field of wheat while the dryer was emptying this morning but one blasted nozzle had to block every round. Stuff like crushed egg shell kept on coming down to the end of the line and into the nozzle. Gave it a good blast with the nozzle off but still more came through. An it was one of those fancy nozzles you can’t get apart to give a good clean without nearly destroying it. What an effing annoying thing it was. Nearly thrashed it with a branch.
two-cylinder
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- Location
- Cambridge
Carry a few spare nozzles with you for swopping in the field.
Clean when you get a few spare minutes back in the yard
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
What combine u got?
I usually meticulously service, adjust and repair the combine a week before starting, but it rarely thanks me, something unusual breaks just to kick me in the balls and then it rains.
This year I said feck.it, put the battery on it, the OH cleaned the windows while I put some fuel in, we took off down the field, rattled 53 ac of w barley through it and not one hiccup.
This year I said feck.it, put the battery on it, the OH cleaned the windows while I put some fuel in, we took off down the field, rattled 53 ac of w barley through it and not one hiccup.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
When they say that the consequences of global warming could be that by 2050, each summer had a 50/50 chance of being like 2018, I say bring it on.
- Location
- northumberland
reading some of these "problems" and it sounds like a lot of them could be sorted with some planning and maintenance i know we can all have unforseen problems but unless your organic you can't expect to just plant crops then harvest them without some kind of chemical program, and you can't expect a machine to work every hour you wish without some tlc, off to get my tin hat for the barrage
i know we can all have unforseen problems but unless your organic you can't expect to just plant crops then harvest them without some kind of chemical program, and you can't expect a machine to work every hour you wish without some tlc, off to get my tin hat for the barrage 
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
One basic rule - “Despite all preparatory efforts machines NEVER break down whilst they are in the shed”
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I buy 50 nozzles for that reason for a 48 nozzle machine. The spares were sat in my desk. Luckily was behind house when blockage occurred. Retrieved spares from house. Replaced, blocked again. Seems like there was a lump of crystalline sediment in the DCV that was working it’s way through.Carry a few spare nozzles with you for swopping in the field.
Clean when you get a few spare minutes back in the yard
- Location
- Lincolnshire
If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. And if it can go wrong on August bank holiday weekend, it certainly will.
Combine or cultivator Lways breaks august bhw. Sprayer potentiometer always breaks may bank holiday.
Combine or cultivator Lways breaks august bhw. Sprayer potentiometer always breaks may bank holiday.
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
And that’s where we can help - If you can locate the item you need and get a PO number for it I will be able to get it collected generally within the hour provided the dealer/manufacturer co-operates.
0333 4567 021
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I've reduced my harvest problems by having contractors do it all. Different set of problems, but overall that bit calmer.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Diesel spraying out of tiny tiny hole in combine fuel return hose. Making a dusty damp patch inside the engine bay. Glad I had a look round the machine after tea just to check things over.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
If you sell this stuff, prepare for it *never* to be quite right for your buyer. Not dead enough, too dead, too brittle, can't get the weight, too much weight, too wet, too dry, too long, swath too wide, swath too high.
Invariably, after being down for ages, it will be too expensive.
Invariably, after being down for ages, it will be too expensive.
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Combine half shaft splines gone. Lost traction drive last night. Luckily near finishing time. Have an old one in the shed off my mates burnt out machine but it’s not in great condition either. But hopefully it will see us through this year. Fortunately it’s the external shaft that floats between the GB and the final drive on RHS. If it had been the GB output spline or final drive input shaft spline it really would have been a pain.
That definitely is not what anyone needs hope you can get a replacement soon. I was told a week to get a fan belt last week!
- Location
- Top of the Chilterns
On the (rather slim) upside it doesnt look like it went through the rad?
Edit: ah, just seen your later post...☹