Contractor dumps 40ft header

Douglasmn

Member
A quick look through TFF really confirms that there are a lot of bitter, small minded farmers around. Is it really such a bad thing if some people get on very well with 40ft headers? Pick the size that suits your farm and way of farming without worrying about what other people are doing for theirs. In recent years on this farm we've had 15ft, 24ft and now 35ft cutterbars. Baling and chopping with all of them. All three seem to work just fine. Obviously the 35ft has by far the highest output, but if the straw gets a good soaking then funnily enough the 15ft swath would dry quicker. In all scenarios harvest always got completed to a satisfying standard. Average field size around 40 acres and no flat ground.
 

Lowland1

Member
Mixed Farmer
The people who cut for us (Dads cousin) run two combines one 25 foot and another 20 foot if they replaced them with one 40 foot machine it would be great when the weather is sunny and the crops are stood but when its catchy and the crops are laid the best plans come to nothing. When we are complaining about our crops being ready they can dispatch a machine to keep us happy whilst still carrying on elsewhere. It's really up to the individual surely as to what suits. I personally would love to have the land/crops/money to justify a 40 foot monster but I don't.
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
Maybe but I reckon another decade after that the new thing will be 24cm robotic harvester headers all ferrying to a static thresher at the end of the field.

I remember going with a colleague many years ago to look at a big square baler in Eastern Europe that was always having poor performance according to the owner.

When we got there the tractor and baler were parked in the corner of the field and the farm workers were bringing the straw to it on wagons and carts then forking it into the baler. They didn’t want to be replaced or unemployed :)
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
12 metres is sooo passé . . .

Get with the cool kids
Sixty feet is necessary on the prairies where the yields are sub 1 ton per acre and probably going at 10mph
40 ft combines here just crawl because its a mismatch between the threshing area, the header size and the average yield
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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