Mega Slow Oat Harvest

[begginerfarmer]

What speed does everyone harvest their winter oats at? Ours are just eat the hours away!
Drilled at 325sm2 and sometimes the combine (class tucano) has to go slower than 1mph to cope with the returns!!

I think we need to drill them at a much lower rate but is anyone else getting this? Or got any tips?

Happy harvesting! Ta

 

[Still Farming]

New combine and don't look tall or flat.
Not big header?
Good walking pace should be the norm?

 

[Dman2]

Don`t shut the wind down to much
Do a full stop, and see where your seives are overloaded
May need to alter the angle of the blast as well

We can fair crack on in oats, maybe a bit bigger machine than yours but not massive

 

[rob1]

been cutting our spring oats today at 2km/hr, they are a leaning about with the odd flat patch but yielding very well, straw is pretty green and sappy so it doesnt flow into the intake very well just plodding on with a few back ups to clear the header auger

 

[Exfarmer]

Sorry to e harsh, but it is obvious the driver has no clue. The reel should never be that low
.
So for oats, drum 3/4 open . Never more since if have a block you need to drop the concave before cleaning
Reel nearly out of crop 10 per cent faster than grounf speed to ensure heads go in first.
Drum speed fairly low , but fast enough to maintain momentum.
Sieves fairly wide and wind speed at least 50%

 

[traineefarmer]

We just finished our small area today. Most were flat, green and disappointing.

We were sailing along at a blistering 1.1 mph!

 

[AndrewB]

2/3 of the way through our winter oats,huge amount of straw and grain ( 4t hopefully). Not flat but leaning, sprayed off for 12 days, combining between 1.5 - 2 mph just have to give the machine time to work.

Winter barley was the same this year averaged 4.3t/ acre, slow to combine and hard to thrash, any speed and were throwing grain over the back, in both straw walker and rotary combines.
Hopefully the wheat will be easier!

 

[David.]

Went once round some oats Monday, pulled out because straw looked like silage, grain is fit but crop just isn't ripe.

 

[JD6920s]

Spring oats very slow going this time, probably 30% flat due to heavy rain in the recent weeks, but yielded very well. The straw is always not ripe even when the grain is down to 12%, and when the sun goes in it’s like someone has flicked a switch the way they flow!

 

[Exfarmer]

Oats will benefit from having an extended table on the combine. Makes cutting damp long straw a lot easier especially if it is laying towards you. Have often cut them one way to get round the issue.

 

[begginerfarmer]

Great point everyone, many thanks will try it all and see how we get on today. N

 

[organicguy]

Tell dad to drive the combine

 

[Chae1]

Did ours with liquid sunshine, going to go back in 3 weeks and cut them.

 

[JD6920s]

Oats will benefit from having an extended table on the combine. Makes cutting damp long straw a lot easier especially if it is laying towards you. Have often cut them one way to get round the issue.

If you look in the photo above you’ll see in the mirror I was crossing the tramlines at 90 deg, this made it much better.