How does dd/no-till effect your combine?

[doorknob]

Curious how dd/no-till has, and will effect your combine setup and modifications? Do you use componenets that you would not normally use in conventional tillage to better deal with the residue? Beyond the obvious stuff I mean. Like rasp bars that may be more aggressive or header setup to cut higher or lower? Things of that nature.

How about tire size choices? Do you sacrifice tank sample quality to reduce volunteer seed counts?

Have you made any modifications on your own that you could not buy, to enhance your drill setup?

 

[Simon Chiles]

Curious how dd/no-till has, and will effect your combine setup and modifications? Do you use componenets that you would not normally use in conventional tillage to better deal with the residue? Beyond the obvious stuff I mean. Like rasp bars that may be more aggressive or header setup to cut higher or lower? Things of that nature.

How about tire size choices? Do you sacrifice tank sample quality to reduce volunteer seed counts?

Have you made any modifications on your own that you could not buy, to enhance your drill setup?

The only difference for me was spec'ing wider tyres ( IF ) to allow them to run at 20 psi and a premium chop straw chopper.

 

[Nick.]

The only thing I do is lift the header as high as possible.
Not only speeds the job up considerably, but less chopped straw to worry about, plus less diesel/wear and tear on the chopper.

 

[Niels]

Cut the stubble higher, spend more time adjusting the straw chopper and chaff spreader, try and opt for wide tyres or tracks preferably and also trailer management in the field. Keep trailers to the tramlines for as long as possible, leave them on the headland sometimes and, if affordable, get a chaser bin. The combine really is a first 'pass' for the new season and needs as much thought as drilling and any other passes you will be doing.

 

[Will Blackburn]

Added a chaff spreader, made a big difference.

 

[doorknob]

I added a chaff spreader too, and it is night and day difference. I wish I could ad a good chopper to the case ih machine, but I use spike rasp bars over the grates and it helps some.

 

[H.Jackson]

Spec'ed combine with premium chopper and chaff distributed by the chopper as well even of swathing, as straight chaff spreaders affected by side wind. Current tine drill doesn't like long straw so still cutting low at the moment.

 

[Clive]

Spec'ed a longer auger so chaser bin runs in same tracks as combine, this way if we are harvesting in conditions where soil might be damaged we restrict that damage to a smaller area to fix, rtk steered as well with this in mind

Claas have excellent choppers and spreaders so no different there

Machine is on tracks but that was also the case pre no till

Not sure any of this is because on no til -I would be using the same machine regardless of establishment method

 

[Niels]

Saw this on Twitter made by a farmer from Western Australia. Directs chaff and weed seeds onto CTF tramlines:

Clever idea or not so much?

 

[doorknob]

I think it's pretty clever anyway. Put the weeds and volunteers where they cant hide so easy from the chemicals. I'd have never thought of something like that.

 

[Niels]

I do know of people that mounted a pair of nozzles behind the wheels of their trailed sprayer to cover the tramline better. Might be just the idea if your using a system like this.

 

[Knockie]

@Niels remember I started a thread about trash management...... That's the very thing I was on about, couldn't find that pic at the time...... thanks for posting it.
All you need to do then is either sacrifice those strips with round up in really bad fields or even burn the strips with a calor type flame thingy...... Same effect as stubble burning but only over a very small %age of the field area
Cheers.
SD.

 

[Niels]

Ah that's sorted than @Knockie! Maybe even a small toolbar in the front linkage with two hoe's would do the trick slicing off the weeds?