In Field, Straw Chopping, Using a Silage harvesters.

[DB83]

Hi all,
I'm looking to chop Straw after a Combine with a Percision Chop Silage Harvester.
I'm looking for the best option.

Spec:
Reliable good at chopping dry Straw.
Parts Availability, good price.
Tractor Size 120-150 Hp.

Why: There is a grant available to chop straw to improve Soils.

Thanks.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Fit a straw chopper to the combine, save the fuel, tractor an man,

 

[DB83]

Thanks for the reply.
It's an old Combine, it wouldn't be worth the hassle.
A neighbour has one and it draws a lot of power from his combine and uses a lot of fuel so he says.
I'm only doing 70 acres as a trial to see if it improves the Soil.

 

[robs1]

Cut the straw as high as possible assuming you are dding, lots of wet straw will cause acidic conditions that new seed s wont like, you may have di6in spreading the chopped straw across the width of the combine with a forager, cant you hire a proper chopper ?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

The extra fuel used by combined, will be a lot less than a tractor chopping straw, let alone the extra man hours,
Call Manners, the combine breakers they will have one,

 

[DB83]

Hello
Based in Ireland, No Hire Options available.
Straw will be ploughed down but thanks for that re Straw, good to know.

 

[organicguy]

A forage harvester will leave it in rows however hard you try to swish it about.

 

[Barley]

A forage harvester will leave it in rows however hard you try to swish it about.

You need a trailed forage harvester like a old John Deere and take the spout off and blow it up into the air. Just go steady they don’t love straw!

 

[delilah]

Hello
Based in Ireland, No Hire Options available.
Straw will be ploughed down but thanks for that re Straw, good to know.

As in NI ? This for the ELMS payment ? Or are you Eire and a different grant ?

 

[DB83]

Yes, I had planned to remove the Spout and blow it out.
I,m in Eire / EU.

 

[fieldfarmer]

I done some one year that I just couldn't get dry enough to bale, the power required to chop it was unbelievable, it didn't spread to bad just blowing it to the side, be careful of bearings getting hot a fire on a straw crop isn't fun, but if the straw isn't fit to bale will chop it out the combine, bit more fuel but perfect spread.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Hasn't fuel gone dear

 

[fieldfarmer]

Hasn't fuel gone dear

Not as dear as potash,

 

[deleted user 436632456]

We used to chop a lot of straw for bedding decades ago.. the JD was the best by a country mile at it, really put the SH40 to shame but that was putting bales through it not lifting swards.

 

[Grassman]

I hired a flail chopper many years ago for rough grass and scrub. It threw the material up in the air after it had been through the flail. Browns possibly.

 

[mx110]

I dont know all that much about combining but if you run the header high to just take the grain will make it easier work, faster and save on fuel then mulch all the rest with a flail topper

 

[DB83]

If you cut the Wheat higher you would have to Flail all the crop. If it cut lower you only have the Chop straw in the rows. I,m not say that option would work either as I have never tried it myself.

 

[7610 super q]

Stripper header, and then flail ?

 

[davidroberts30]

Stripper header, and then flail ?

Stripper header and decent skins or trashboards

 

[Hesstondriver]

If you cut the Wheat higher you would have to Flail all the crop. If it cut lower you only have the Chop straw in the rows. I,m not say that option would work either as I have never tried it myself.

you can just run a rotary topper or disc mower over the stubble if you cut high. or possibly a light disc and allow it to green up before cultivation