Harvest 2019

[Flintstone]

Should be finished harvest by 3am.

Back on now at 17% with 240 acres to cut.

There are a lot of people holding off cutting because they say it’s only mid August. That wheat will be growing in the ear by 24th August after what comes tomorrow and this weekend.

 

[Manny]

Just got going well and then down come 20mins of fine light drizzle which has stuck to everything and stopped the job for an hour or two. Just managed to finish a field so at least we can move fields.

 

[Steevo]

Should be finished harvest by 3am.

Back on now at 17% with 240 acres to cut.

There are a lot of people holding off cutting because they say it’s only mid August. That wheat will be growing in the ear by 24th August after what comes tomorrow and this weekend.

Wise words. The wheat plant doesn't care about the date on the calendar....it just reacts to the conditions present.

A bit like OSR flowering pre-Christmas in a mild winter.

 

[turbo]

Got moved this morning and it pee'd down 3 times now since 12,so much for the driest day of the week and now pissing down again

 

[Heathland]

Got started in the wheats at 11am 16.5% and its just tipped it down,ruddy weather,gone and stuffed it for today.

 

[Daniel]

Should be finished harvest by 3am.

Back on now at 17% with 240 acres to cut.

There are a lot of people holding off cutting because they say it’s only mid August. That wheat will be growing in the ear by 24th August after what comes tomorrow and this weekend.

20 acres an hour?

 

[Zippy768]

I need a 13 hour day to do 20 acres

 

[4course]

its been a drying breeze today, had a look but still over 20% .Now got to doctors for a routine bp test, cant see that going well

 

[bankrupt]

wheat will be growing in the ear by 24th August after what comes tomorrow and this weekend.

That's my nightmare scenario, too.

However, we've already cut too much wheat here that we can't dry down properly because it's just not ripe.

The rest will have to wait until next week.

 

[Flintstone]

20 acres an hour?

Yep. More like 24 come to think of it now it’s a bit fitter, so maybe 2 am with no breakdowns.

 

[Daniel]

Yep. More like 24, so maybe 2 am with no breakdowns.

Yep. More like 24, so maybe 2 am with no breakdowns.

Is it all in one field, no header offs or road moves?

I've been suggesting that Dad might like to accept a few more losses over the back to get 50ac done today! 5 fields, 3 road moves about half a mile each time, started at 11am.

Got a lot of straw and its brackling over so if you raise the header its leaving a few ears behind.

 

[Poncherello1976]

Hopefully will get the peas done before tomorrow's rain.

 

[Flintstone]

Out of interest, what’s that crop drilled with daniel? Looks like strip till.

 

[Daniel]

Out of interest, what’s that crop drilled with daniel? Looks like strip till.

Claydon hybrid.

 

[Flintstone]

Thought I recognised it.

I use one myself.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Well Dad and I just got finished!*

*disclaimer* we only had 150 acres to cut.

Cattle man has just finished baling too.

 

[Brisel]

Yep. More like 24 come to think of it now it’s a bit fitter, so maybe 2 am with no breakdowns.

I hope they are providing a few carts too - you'll be busy hauling that lot out of the field by yourself

 

[l'ordinary bonville]

Pi55ed down again before we could have a go

Even worse contractor combine has just disappeared to go find somewhere dry. Hoping it comes back

A year like this I need a whopping big rotary just to hoover it up in a few days

 

[Flintstone]

Pay him weekly. He won’t go anywhere then.

 

[limestone brash]

Aren’t you all getting a bit up tight
We’ve cut wheat in September on many occasions