combine until when?

[spin cycle]

just curious to hear what time of night..or stage? folks combine until

 

[benny6910]

Till the slip clutch on my header goes off. Then I know it’s time to pack up

 

[tr250]

Until it’s damp I’m in flat oats at the moment so I had to pack up at dark but if I was in rape or wheat could of gone all night

 

[robbie]

When cutting barley go until it gets "clung", the signs to go home are pushing up on lifters and dividers and when it starts lumping throught the drum.

Wheat, we go until we've had enough for the day or get hungry/tired.

 

[DrWazzock]

Till the auger clutch sounds like a machine gun.

 

[DrWazzock]

Or you think that wodge nearly stalled it.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Until I, grain carters or combine have had enough

 

[Grass And Grain]

Just stopped cutting wheat. Grain obvs still dry, straw was getting a bit clammy. Finished field, combine to retrieve from up the village. Otherwise could have carried on. Tiredness also a factor, as well as noise for the village.

 

[curlietailz]

Just stopped tonight at 10:40.
finished a field
Late enough
I’m old !

 

[Daniel]

Cutting flat Rye this evening, all of a sudden at about 9.30pm it started driving up on the lifters every 20 yards.

You don’t often see even the biggest farms cutting much past 10pm locally, damp comes up through the soil.

 

[Will 1594]

Just finished , couldbof kept going , ,still dry ,not like last night 11 was enough ,

 

[Kidds]

Not much combining goes on around here but I can still tell from the combine groaning when they have had enough.

 

[willy]

9pm, blow it down and diesel it up, prefer to crack on in sunlight and put a few early loads through the drier than buggering around in the dark.

 

[DRC]

In house at 9.30 last night. Had finished field . Important to get plenty of sleep. Accidents happen through tiredness and as a one man band nearing 60, the jumping on and off tractors and combine etc is tiring .
There’s always another day

 

[Badshot]

Working half the night and being tired on harvest duties is a recipe for disaster.
Food comes out to me at a reasonable hour, try to get home by 10, which normally means stopping about 9 to half 9.


I note the long range forecast is now dry entirely for us for two weeks.
Ought to get some crops cut in that time.

 

[EddieB]

Depends on weather forecast, likely workload the next day etc. but normally around 9.30. Things normally start getting a bit damp then and I find working too late for days on end leads to fatigue, not the best when in charge of dangerous pieces of kit.

 

[Bob lincs]

We don’t very often cut after ten at night , it’s usually eleven by the time we leave the yard . If we’re going to chew though damp straw and have grain with higher moisture i would rather get started earlier and do it in the morning than in the dark .

 

[DRC]

I should imagine that if you’re just driving the combine, and it’s a big modern machine with a few buttons to press in a nice field of wheat and trailers running alongside, you will hardly get tired .
compare with driving older machine, carting trailers , tipping in mobile dryer. Empty dryer, push up grain. Repeat all day. It does get tiring .

 

[Phil P]

A lot depends on the forecast but if the moistures right we’ll cut all night .
Finished at 9 last night as finished the field and I don’t like opening up in the dark. If your going to pick up something nasty in the header of hit something it’s usually on the outside run!

 

[Case290]

10. 10.30 late enough hear thought about that yesterday and if that dosnt work out getting a bigger combine. Next yr.