Claas mega combine

[carbonfibre farmer]

Crumbs you have been busy with the spanners ! i thought the 68/78 /88 combines all had a different knife drive arrangement to the older combines

We've had it 20yrs so not all been done at once bit every year.

Got a flip up passenger seat to somehow fit this year

 

[spin cycle]

Did you see the 66 on Facebook? It was sort of too good to break but not good enough to use. I don’t know how many parts would be interchangeable anyway

i've seen it....bit of adventure getting it home by sound of it

 

[Flat 10]

i've seen it....bit of adventure getting it home by sound of it

It was a 66? Not a 68?

 

[Speedstar]

We've had it 20yrs so not all been done at once bit every year.

Got a flip up passenger seat to somehow fit this year

We had one in our 76 came out of a Claas 840 forager

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

We had one in our 76 came out of a Claas 840 forager

This one's the same as they use in Bateman sprayer

 

[bobk]

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Ooh look at you , shredding £20 notes out of the back .

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Ooh look at you , shredding £20 notes out of the back .

No one wants little bales out of a yard that has no room for artics
......... well they do at like 50p a bale

 

[bobk]

No one wants little bales out of a yard that has no room for artics
......... well they do at like 50p a bale

Not this year ,or any actually , £2.50 normally .

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Not this year ,or any actually , £2.50 normally .

Best you send me some names then

I bale what we need ourselves, chop the rest. It's not immediately incorporated, left until ploughing (Which we do later than pretty much everyone round here) by which time it's nearly all gone due to the earth worms. Our land is lovely and friable thanks to that and minimal straw offtake.
And yes we could do straw for muck.....and import blackgrass which considering half the farm grows seed crops would outweight the premium we get and straw we could have sold what do I know

 

[bobk]

Best you send me some names then

I bale what we need ourselves, chop the rest. It's not immediately incorporated, left until ploughing (Which we do later than pretty much everyone round here) by which time it's nearly all gone due to the earth worms. Our land is lovely and friable thanks to that and minimal straw offtake.
And yes we could do straw for muck.....and import blackgrass which considering half the farm grows seed crops would outweight the premium we get and straw we could have sold what do I know

I will say , in 2019 we had to chop the last 15 acres of straw , jeez it makes the job easy .

 

[tr250]

I will say , in 2019 we had to chop the last 15 acres of straw , jeez it makes the job easy .

It does make it easy but I dislike chopping as I can’t see how well I’m threshing the crop. I find I tend to over thresh the straw when chopping causing more losses