Retro fit combine yieldometer

[Flat 10]

Anybody done this? Who makes them and how much are they? Only one I’ve seen is an rds I think. Only asking because I see there is a grant again and might be worthy of consideration.

 

[Matt77]

I’ve got an RDS unit on my Tucano, very simple and “most” of the time very good, yield and moisture, moisture needs calibration with handheld to get best out of it, in an ideal world you’d calibrate the yield with a trailer and weigh bridge, did this with the wheat when new but weigh bridge is a long way from us. I’ve since over the years cut 300-400kgs and put in dumpy bag and weighed on the cattle crush, it’s not been that far out over the years once we’ve sold off farm and what the machine thought. You can view the data on farm works software.

 

[Steevo]

Had an RDS here on a NH combine. Cost about £3k to fit, part of that grant funded.

I think I'd rather buy a used NH with it already fitted if I had a choice - I'm guessing they don't add much to the value of a used machine compared to NH new price.

 

[Flat 10]

I’ve got an RDS unit on my Tucano, very simple and “most” of the time very good, yield and moisture, moisture needs calibration with handheld to get best out of it, in an ideal world you’d calibrate the yield with a trailer and weigh bridge, did this with the wheat when new but weigh bridge is a long way from us. I’ve since over the years cut 300-400kgs and put in dumpy bag and weighed on the cattle crush, it’s not been that far out over the years once we’ve sold off farm and what the machine thought. You can view the data on farm works software.

Did you fit it?

 

[Flat 10]

Had an RDS here on a NH combine. Cost about £3k to fit, part of that grant funded.

I think I'd rather buy a used NH with it already fitted if I had a choice - I'm guessing they don't add much to the value of a used machine compared to NH new price.

Who supplies? Did you find it useful?

 

[Matt77]

Did you fit it?

No, they did, one guy, took him less than a day if I remember right, it was 8 years ago.

 

[Steevo]

Who supplies? Did you find it useful?

RDS themselves - not far from their depot at all.

I believe they have a sub-division of dealers "RDS South West" for example who cover specific areas but could be wrong.

Yes, I'm pleased to have it. Yield is more accurate than moisture I find. Moisture depends greatly on volume of crop flow over the sensor so is a bit yield related. Higher yielding areas appear as wetter than lower.

 

[Matt77]

RDS themselves - not far from their depot at all.

I believe they have a sub-division of dealers "RDS South West" for example who cover specific areas but could be wrong.

Yes, I'm pleased to have it. Yield is more accurate than moisture I find. Moisture depends greatly on volume of crop flow over the sensor so is a bit yield related. Higher yielding areas appear as wetter than lower.

Where is your moisture sensor fitted? Mines at the bottom of the grain elevator and I find in beans it caps over with crud and doesn’t work, I need to clean it daily in beans.

 

[Steevo]

Where is your moisture sensor fitted? Mines at the bottom of the grain elevator and I find in beans it caps over with crud and doesn’t work, I need to clean it daily in beans.

Same place. It's the new style version - better than the old "fin" type but even so.

 

[ih1455xl]

Fitted a rds to my 1085 myself and John evans from rds came out a calibrated it with me

 

[yellow belly]

I had one from lh Agro. In a tx62 then put on a tf78
Once calibrated very accurate worked on same principle as the newholland oem monitor