blue power
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- Location
- Staffordshire
Potato harvest
- Thread starter harvey121
- Start date
farmerphilly
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Was that with a kv harvester?
It was with a 2017 Standen T2, we've not had a KV harvester since 2007.
farmerphilly
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Sorry I thought you had a 2600. I still have a couple of acres to get with my 2600 but it was sinking terribly last time 3 weeks ago. I think it’s too wet still.
does the t2 perform better than the kv? I imagine it does but I was still content with kv considering what it owes me!
does the t2 perform better than the kv? I imagine it does but I was still content with kv considering what it owes me!
I did run a 1996 KV UN2600 for 05&6 seasons - in fact I still have a donor harvester if you need any bits.
The KV was replaced by a Pearson Enterprise with stars and dahlmans, then a Standen Enterprise with double evolution, then an ex demo T2 in 2012.
The KV was great, but the T2 is in a different league.
farmerphilly
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That’s good too know, parts availability has always worried me. Ideally I would like too swap it for something better. Grimme 1700’s seem very wide for my farm track. A t2 with picking table would be a hell of a step up but probably not justified for 15 acres!
Cloonpotatoes
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- Location
- Donegal
Finished yesterday. It’s been a tough harvest on men and machinery. It took nearly 3 days to lift the last 11 acres. Disappointing service from Grimme didn’t help. On the other hand the boys were brilliant and put in some big shifts in very challenging conditions
woodylane
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- Location
- Lancashire
Just on holiday at Woburn centre parcs, has a nice morning watching a self propelled Grimme and a couple of fastracs struggling to dig a field, a big JD RX was towing off. Anyone on here? I thought we had it bad in Lancashire but boy they was having it tough.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
- Location
- West Suffolk
Seems to be several started again according to FB harvester drivers UK. Spuds look alright too, lucky with the mild weather I suppose.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
We’re on Ramos not gonna want to be kicking about long frost just caught the greens so hopefully graded and out of store in the next month
riverside2
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- Location
- Shropshire
Activity in Lincs and Shropshire having spoken to a couple this morning...................unsurprisingly it's slow progress though.
riverside2
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- Location
- Shropshire
And some Lancs growers lifting today, sample looked decent although the estimate was 25-30% of yield lost due to the time spent in the field. I see European futures just tailing off a little since before Christmas, mild conditions meaning a little more is being salvaged than what was expected?
- Location
- East yorks
Saw a couple of people harvesting in east York’s this aft
- Location
- West Suffolk
started last week,for my first lifted spuds here near manchester, rained all last night, reckon it'll be another 2-3 weeks at least to get back to where we were last week
You mean you hadn’t even started?
nope, breaking my collar bone at the end of september didnt help, but its still been pretty wet since then anyway
- Location
- West Suffolk
blimey, don’t know how I’d cope in that situation. Hope you haven’t got too many acres to go at.