Beginners guide to driving a combine

[Steevo]

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.

Good point.

 

[Exfarmer]

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

Not sure on your maths here but you are on the right side

 

[Dan Attle]

i found with our tx66 and the dominator before that is use the book as a guide it does help and losses are over rated you can spend alot of time faffing and get no where get it accpetble and crack on as a few grains left in the field and a big heap is better when its raining

 

[v8willy]

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.

Used to have a contractors combine driver who would cut across tramlines just for pure badness, kinda guy that would take the bulbs out of the lights so he wouldn't have to work in the dark.
Cut accross one time too many for me, he had moved farms with the combine when I arrived to bale, but left his car in the field, that night when he came back he had a few bales to shift as he had about 30 round bales surrounding his car.

Another thing nobody has mentioned yet is drive the other way round the field on the outside lap, or maybe that only happens here? reason is rhs of header is narrower & less crap from the ditch/hedge catches on the side

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Cut the 2nd cut round first with divider in tramline, then outside cut slightly narrower and only hav to look at outside one .This works with 20m tramlines and 20ft cut

I do likewise with 20' cut and 24m tramlines.

I also do likewise with 12ft cut and 12mtr tramlines.
Father hugs the hedge first time round, generally with the drives and chain guards bashing against the inside