Who’s fired up the grain drier?

Bignor Farmer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
West Sussex
We’ve got fit wheat and it Hasn’t rained properly since early June but now we keep catching light showers every day, very annoying!

Weather forecast is hotter for the end of the week but I think we’re going to chip away at it in the afternoons, seems to be between 15.5% and 17%. Any other year I’d grab every bit of sub 18% I could get.

It doesn’t really exist until it’s in the barn 😉
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
21% Grafton, Scottish Borders. 95% fit, but yesterdays 9mm of rain is stopping us from combining.
 

Jon 3085

Member
Location
Worcester, UK
I cut a couple of trailer loads @18.5 to 21% to open a field up this afternoon, all went well until I saw my dad going across the field with the hydraulic tailboard in the air with a half loaded trailer 😬good job there wasn’t too much on the back of the trailer.
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Zippy768

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dorset/Wilts
I cut a couple of trailer loads @18.5 to 21% to open a field up this afternoon, all went well until I saw my dad going across the field with the hydraulic tailboard in the air with a half loaded trailer 😬good job there wasn’t too much on the back of the trailer.View attachment 1052226
You just wanted to show off that spanky nice trailer 😀👍
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
Just took enough off for a drier load 27t this afternoon, 17-17.5% more to iron out any bugs re combine and drier, a few greens in the tramlines but the rest is just about fit, Skyfall. Need to tighten up the chaff spreader belt but otherwise all good. Lovely brood of young English Partridge chicks and also a brood of "bumble bee" sized chicks too, lovely to see, they've had a good year.
 

Bignor Farmer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
West Sussex
Despite a couple of showers we did tip a few loads dry yesterday and mixed a few more 15.5s with some off the drier. Green headlands no worse than 17.5%.

2nd wheat gleam doing 9t/ha over the weighbridge but will be pulled down by a few sketchy headlands as we move across the block.
 

idle git

Member
Mixed Farmer
My skyfalll was 17.8% on Mon evening,, possibly the lowest it had been as in still ripening but anxious to keep going as yesterday we had a showery forecast for the next 10 days.
This block of wheat is going into our local storage facility who will quite happily dry it for me if my patience runs out. But on the plus side because I don't believe in liquid sunshine I have £2 a ton in my wallet to pay towards the drying
Did nip a sample to the store from Mon. moisture 17.8, protein 13.6. Twm 78.3. Hagburg 365
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
It is still only July according to my calendar . Quite often we haven’t even started winter barley .
I did see a neighbour cutting spring barley yesterday, which must be a record for round here .
I see on Twitter that there was one chap finished yesterday, mind boggling when some haven't even started
 

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