Harvest 2019
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- Start date
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
Mr Charisma
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- Location
- stratford on Avon
Sorry but I'm sending you a fair storm ,,,,,, should be with you by now !!!!!
Certainly will stop any play for us till Wed at the earliest especially as they now forecast heavy showers all afternoon
Looking at the radar it would be a lucky person to to miss a shower anywhere today. Started at 10.30, barley down to 16, heavy shower at 12.15 stopped for a while.
- Location
- East yorks
The current radar looks way worse than any forecast I have seen
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Firestone 48 x 25.00 - 20. They originally came from Sam Moreton & Son Farmers Tyre Ltd near Warwick. They specialise in Ag tyres and I had to go back to them to get a spacer and 6 hole centre to fit them to my (TF 78 originally, then CX 6080) Combine.
On the TF , I had to restrict the steering angles so that the didn’t collide with the Rotor re-thresher guards. But you might get away without needing to on your TX66.
They will raise the back of the Combine a bit, compared to your standard wheels. So you need to compensate by adding more wind from the fan.
On my CX, they are the same diameter as the originals, so I don’t need to.
One one the best things I have ever done was to put them on the Combine.
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- Location
- Minehead,Somerset
Well apart from the last 3 acs of OSR on 2nd August , I ve not cut a thing in August yet ! Hoping to go tomorrow with contract cut spring oats 4 miles from home . Have to be honest that for first 7 days, had no real crops ready and last 10 days it's been a case of having crops ready but in 5 different directions and all 2-5 miles away, constant showers for part of the day so no doubt wherever you went would be wrong/ too wet so being laid back I decided to say, no , sod it , let's wait for a dry day / period. At least crops are now fit and will cut better and as I spent a few quid on fungicides and growth reg , apart from looking a bit dark are all stood and should be fine.
My local "weather man" says we have had 72mm of rain so far in August, 20mm more than I guessed !
My local "weather man" says we have had 72mm of rain so far in August, 20mm more than I guessed !
Dried off a bit so back on again
- Location
- In the middle.
Another lovely dry summers day. This storm went past then spun back around and soaked use too.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Cut 40ac. Rained. Got cross. Gone home.
Not going to dry off here
Raining again here
Now rearranging the malting barley so anything cut from now on can go on a drive on floor in case the next cut stuff is already germinating. No point in dumping feed barley on top of 800t of malting barley in a silo and condemning the whole lot to the feed heap. Still all 303 ac of Laureate to cut too. I doubt it's distilling spec anymore either. Will all this rain please feck off somewhere else?!?!?!
Now rearranging the malting barley so anything cut from now on can go on a drive on floor in case the next cut stuff is already germinating. No point in dumping feed barley on top of 800t of malting barley in a silo and condemning the whole lot to the feed heap. Still all 303 ac of Laureate to cut too. I doubt it's distilling spec anymore either. Will all this rain please feck off somewhere else?!?!?!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
So glad this is my last harvest. Only from the outside can anyone realise what a stupid job this is.
How come last harvest?
- Location
- East yorks
Concrete blown off now, will finish taking a few trailers to the local store then have a look at 6
- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Yes, and at the moment although that first batch has gone through (Water now standing in combine cleat marks) there is a massive cluster over Eire heading this way.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Stopping contract farming. My own bit is a mere postage stamp.