End of season combine blow down time?

[Pilatus]

Just out of interest how long do you( or your boss allow) you to do a very thorough end of season blown down on the farms/ estates combine?

 

[Bobthebuilder]

As long as it takes

 

[Lewis821]

I usually spend a day in total with spraying header and elevator with oil, greasing up etc. Most of the time is spent trying to find a shed empty to park it in.

 

[Bramble]

A day to blow it down, strip out sieves, prep floor, undo guards, clean stone trap/conclave, hoover grain tank

 

[kevindb880]

A morning on the header and a day to do the rest, or as long as it takes, if you don’t get every last bit of sh!t out the mice move in over winter!

 

[J 1177]

Zero, I get a contractor in it's his dusty problem.

 

[Clive]

takes a week to clean and put away properly

doesn't get done until we are driled up or we get a wet week however, a farm with time ti do this in a dry august / september is overstaffed !

 

[lloyd]

takes a week to clean and put away properly

doesn't get done until we are driled up or we get a wet week however, a farm with time ti do this in a dry august / september is overstaffed !

You better employ Slim Shiny looks like he would
lower your overhead costs being seven times more efficient

 

[snarling bee]

A day to do it well. Need a 20mph wind ideally.

a farm with time ti do this in a dry august / september is overstaffed !

Please stop your preaching. I for one am very tired of it.
You know that is not always true, it depends on so many factors.

 

[Steevo]

Did mine on Monday after I finished cutting the last field - all guards up and 20mins with leaf blower.

Pressure washed the outer tinwork off on Wednesday when it was warm in between monitoring the digger so it's had chance to properly dry off before going in the shed. Probably took no more than an hour. Just the windows to finish with a brush.

Problem now is exactly what @slim shiny says - need to have shuffle round the sheds before it can find its place.

 

[Clive]

A day to do it well. Need a 20mph wind ideally.

Please stop your preaching. I for one am very tired of it.
You know that is not always true, it depends on so many factors.

really ? spare labour at this time of the year if not raining on a combinable crop farm mean too much labour IMO

even if i had spare men / tractors at this time of year i would send them out on contract work - there is no shortage of work for men and tractors that will bring in money unlike washing off a combine at this time of year

i apologise if my opinion offends you - but its just that, my opinion / insight to how i run my business, run yours however you choose and can afford to

seems i do often strike a nerve / catch the conscience of some though !

 

[Bury the Trash]

As above cleaning the combine down is the last thing on my mind atm.

 

[snarling bee]

There are plenty of 'family farms' that would have labour available for such jobs.
I would have thought as you don't do any cultivation that you would find a spare day between harvest and drilling to do the job.
We are both on this forum when we could both be cleaning down the combine. But I guess we both have 'management' stuff to do. Both my members of staff have been and will be too busy to do any cleaning down. As I drive and maintain the combine I consider it my job anyway.
Anyway, pre ems ordered, must go now - hedgetrimming to do for a customer whilst her road is shut.

 

[B'o'B]

really ? spare labour at this time of the year if not raining on a combinable crop farm mean too much labour IMO

even if i had spate men / tractors at this time of year i would send them out on cobtrsct work - there id no shortage of work for men and tractors that will bring in money unlike washing off a combine

i apologise if my opinion offends you - but its just that, my opinion / insight to how i run my business, run yours however you choose and can afford to

seems i do often strike a nerve / catch the conscience of some though !

Spare time can happen at any time of year as conditions vary massively year on year. You simply cannot cut things to the bone in an easy year and also come close to having enough capacity to cope in a difficult year.
And the last few years 10 miles can make the difference between the weather smiling on you and giving you windows at the right time or making your life a difficult misery.

As for cleaning the combine, as long as it takes, about a day this year.

 

[snarling bee]

As an aside, whilst farm judging a few years ago, in June, we saw a combine that had finished the last field and just driven straight into a shed, and had sat there all winter covered in shyte. Lets say they didn't win.

 

[B'o'B]

As an aside, whilst farm judging a few years ago, in June, we saw a combine that had finished the last field and just driven straight into a shed, and had sat there all winter covered in shyte. Lets say they didn't win.

When we were looking at changing combines in 2015 one rep took us to a couple of farms to look at different models of one or 2 years old combines. The state 2 of them were in after no time at all was incredible. One in particular had been washed off at the end of the season so looked ok from the outside, but there was 3 inches of wet black rotting grain and chaff on the preparation pan gumming it up solid. I'm glad I wasn't doing the pre season checks on that one.

 

[Lewis821]

When we were looking at changing combines in 2015 one rep took us to a couple of farms to look at different models of one or 2 years old combines. The state 2 of them were in after no time at all was incredible. One in particular had been washed off at the end of the season so looked ok from the outside, but there was 3 inches of wet black rotting grain and chaff on the preparation pan gumming it up solid. I'm glad I wasn't doing the pre season checks on that one.

You'd be amazed at how many just park them up. I went to view a 2 season old 600tt a few years ago, it had been finished with and just parked up over winter in an outlying shed. The rats had been using the sample hatch to get in and out of the tank so frequently it had worn the paint off the fire extinguisher they were climbing over. If it's left in a state it's probably not given much tlc the rest of the season either

 

[DRC]

really ? spare labour at this time of the year if not raining on a combinable crop farm mean too much labour IMO

even if i had spare men / tractors at this time of year i would send them out on contract work - there is no shortage of work for men and tractors that will bring in money unlike washing off a combine at this time of year

i apologise if my opinion offends you - but its just that, my opinion / insight to how i run my business, run yours however you choose and can afford to

seems i do often strike a nerve / catch the conscience of some though !

Always make time to wash down the drier, fold it up and put away . Combine too is better done while you still have it fresh in your mind. I must be more efficient than you, as I don’t employ anyone and my field prep is being done by a contractor . Besides, until the maize and beet are harvested , we don’t have lots of ground to drill .

 

[ewald]

Ploughing now, then I will have a day on the combine while the black grass grows....

 

[Suffolk Serf]

really ? spare labour at this time of the year if not raining on a combinable crop farm mean too much labour IMO

even if i had spare men / tractors at this time of year i would send them out on contract work - there is no shortage of work for men and tractors that will bring in money unlike washing off a combine at this time of year

i apologise if my opinion offends you - but its just that, my opinion / insight to how i run my business, run yours however you choose and can afford to

seems i do often strike a nerve / catch the conscience of some though !

A farm such as where @slim shiny works is pretty full on year round though, unlike a specialist combinable crop farm- with a diverse array of root vegetables and combinable crops, if he doesn't crack on and put his combine away properly at the end of harvest he won't get a chance, he doesn't appear to ever have a slack time as rain doesn't stop play there.