- Location
- East meath/dublin
Thats definitely a winner in a " mine is bigger than yours" competion !!!
Harvest/Yields 2020
- Thread starter Honest john
- Start date
Most tractors can pull a whole lot more than they can lift.
This is probably why fully mounted ploughs, and particularly reversibles, never really caught on.
finish tomorrow, to many heads on the deck but spring barley not done bad. Straw crap even though some of it looked thick enough.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Semi mounted far better than mounted
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Mark Teversham is a character alright
Maybe his son (can’t recall his name at the moment) is getting closer to the reigns? I’ve been left getting to 10 years and things change
Edit. Ian (still have his number on my phone!)
The all-time winner of that accolade must surely be the Caterpillar 60 at the 1930 Tractor Trial held near Wantage, Oxfordshire (Berkshire as then was).
According to its rooky chief organizer from Oxford University, SJ Wright, then aged 24, writing some 45 years later in the 'Power Farmer', "following our agreed protocol of 6hp/furrow, possibly somewhat naively I asked our contracted plough suppliers, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, for a 10 furrow plough suitable for the Caterpillar 60 and, without further comment, they sent along a 4f multitrack close-coupled behind a 6f hexatrack with which the "60" proceeded to plough in an acre every 20 minutes.."
Unfortunately, after all those years the old chap's memory may have been a bit faulty because the only surviving video which I can find clearly shows the Caterpillar 60 with two 5-furrow hexatracks.
1930 tractor trials - Search Videos
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- Location
- East yorks
Still cannot get anything under 16%
Nothing under 16% here since 1976.
- Location
- East yorks
Everything was last year here
Annoyingly mine was under 15% on 12 August. Forecast iffy, so didn't cut. Forecast turned out to be wrong. Eventually cut it on the 22nd at 19%..............
Wheat was 17% here.
Thursday 13th 2.00pm we had 20mm in 20 mins, which stopped the combines and balers, flooded the wet grain store and stalled the wet grain elevators.
Spent most of Friday 14th sourcing sets of new belts - these days everyone seems to keep one of everything and three of nothing.
After that, it was all downhill.
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- Location
- East yorks
Woohoo a trailer under 15 shame the yields are terrible
I think if the new norm is we get 6” of rain in a month (or 3 in 19/20) then we are going to struggle
shame the yields are terribleI think if the new norm is we get 6” of rain in a month (or 3 in 19/20) then we are going to struggle
Donkey Oaty
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I thought I'd get a post in before everyone disappears over to the wheat drilling thread! I still have a bit of both SB and WW to cut, but the forecast looks good for the end of the week. SB has yielded very well but the grain is all sorts of colours and is skinning badly. Wheat is average, but at least it is worth some money. The new to me combine is going well. So far......
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Just finished and baled up. Disappointing really from what looked decent crops of spring barley. Planet crap sample. Propino which was full of disease and I wanted to drop this year was way better on bushel weight. Quite a few heads on floor and about 4 4 ft 2 rounds to the acre.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Err, the latch for the header skid needs folding up into its clip otherwise it will bend something.
- Location
- Darlington
13.5% here today...... Yeah!!!!!
Sub 1.5 t/acre ......boooooo!!!
All done.
On the whole, I have more in the shed than I expected. Trailer/drier/concrete partition count. Less than 4 but more than 3.
Donkey Oaty
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I thought it needed to be off the latch when using the header on auto-float during operation?
Yes it does, but spin the latch round to the top so it rests on the bolt sticking out.
Finished combining. Don't know if we are the last to finish around here. The winter wheat either never grew in the wet or never got planted so our entire acreage was Planet spring barley, as much as anything to have straw for the cattle as some neighbours without livestock just grew cover crops and haven't had a harvest as such.
Very little drying needed, under 14% yesterday and today.
Can't remember ever growing spring barley before! Despite the dreadful weather,it managed to hang on grimly, and yielded around 2 tonne, some fields a bit more, some a bit less and overall better than expected. The last sown turned out to be the best as it didn't get battered to the ground in the wet in August. At one time it looked as though the hot and dry weather was killing it, then rain arrived in the nick of time, so there was a lot of green growing up through. OH was reluctant to spray all of it, as he wanted it to keep growing and filling.
Straw yield was much, much less than normal, but better than nothing.
Very little drying needed, under 14% yesterday and today.
Can't remember ever growing spring barley before! Despite the dreadful weather,it managed to hang on grimly, and yielded around 2 tonne, some fields a bit more, some a bit less and overall better than expected. The last sown turned out to be the best as it didn't get battered to the ground in the wet in August. At one time it looked as though the hot and dry weather was killing it, then rain arrived in the nick of time, so there was a lot of green growing up through. OH was reluctant to spray all of it, as he wanted it to keep growing and filling.
Straw yield was much, much less than normal, but better than nothing.
Donkey Oaty
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire