Crusoe sample

[Surgery]

Always been and bar Stewart to thrash but this year it been a nightmare , seems all around here are saying the same and understandable given the lack of sun we have had , anyone sent any and had admin issues ?

 

[B'o'B]

Haven’t combined any Crusoe, but no variety has thrashed nicely for me this year. Some a lot worse than others, but even very ripe Skyfall which is normally great to combine was hard working and more unthrashed grains in the sample than I would have liked.

 

[MrNoo]

Mulika was the same and also my Skyfall (although not as bad) Mulika is known for it, certainly a strange year. All mine ended up going through the mobile drier which did clean it up no end.

 

[JCfarmer]

Always been and bar Stewart to thrash but this year it been a nightmare , seems all around here are saying the same and understandable given the lack of sun we have had , anyone sent any and had admin issues ?

I was going to post similar.
Its been a right baastard this year and then you have bushel weight issues with so much chaff. You can only hammer the straw so much.
All of mine is going through the drier which just about sorts it out.
Its been a hard work this year with no sun for the main part of harvest, all wheat needing drying infact going out to the drier again in half an hour!

 

[Flatlander]

Better sometimes with hard to thrash than getting delayed by weather and finding it’s shed out and heads are part empty. Closing the bottom sI’ve to send it around again helps but can only do so much of that before they system is overloaded. besides what you see in the grain tank is only a fraction of wat you’ve lost over the top sieve.

 

[Badshot]

Overloading the returns has been the overwhelming issue this harvest.
Skyfall was a dream.
Crusoe less so, much harder to thrash.
Dessicated basset, I was close to a swanvesta.

 

[Surgery]

Overloading the returns has been the overwhelming issue this harvest.
Skyfall was a dream.
Crusoe less so, much harder to thrash.
Dessicated basset, I was close to a swanvesta.

Yep even in spring barley which was admittedly only 90% fit had to drive to the returns monitor , but all forgot about now thankfully.

 

[sahara]

Would agree with all of the above, Grafton this year was unusually difficult to get rid of the unthreshed tips. Normally the sample is as clean as a whistle, our Zyatt only a little better. Finished some Graham yesterday which was considerably better. Both Crusoe and Mulika I remember as being really difficult to get clean, in fact I think I sometimes put the de-awning plates in on the Mulika.

 

[DrWazzock]

All of my wheat, Firefly and Crispin has been difficult to thresh. Either close the bottom sieve up and go like a snail or open it up and go faster but accept some untheshed tips as a compromise.

 

[thorpe]

we must have been lucky here all gleam and graham and they thrashed for fun just 2 fields of gleam after spring barley that put a few white tips in and the grains in them wernt worth having!

 

[goodevans]

I was going to post similar.
Its been a right baastard this year and then you have bushel weight issues with so much chaff. You can only hammer the straw so much.
All of mine is going through the drier which just about sorts it out.
Its been a hard work this year with no sun for the main part of harvest, all wheat needing drying infact going out to the drier again in half an hour!

I hope the drier is still going strong

 

[Hampton]

Last time I grew it I hired Reso’s rotary cleaner. Put 350 tonne through it in about 6-7 hours. Cost £125/hr to hire and raised bushel by 6 points. Ended up with about 20 tonne of screenings which we milled for the cattle. Turned what was basically High protein/hagberh feed wheat into top class milling wheat.
Worth a thought, but mobile dryer may be able to do same job