davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
SPFH Acres Per Hour
- Thread starter Seth470
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pail of ale
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50 acres per hour ,3 loads . How much per hour or per acre ?
Dont you mean the waste of time roller?
If your a selfish forger operator then right , if you’re thinking of your 4 lads on trailers over along season then left as its 4 men all looking over their natural right shoulder and not just one.
End Riggs , assuming 3 times round, should be done in the following order;
If the rake is Still in the field then inside first , to get it out the way for his ins and outs.
Two times round with the trailers on the OUTSIDE of the forager and only one time round (Dyke back ) with the trailers on the inside.
This is best for the trailers as less inside corners , less jack knife corners and less chance of rubbing the tyre off the draw bar , catching the hoses with tyre or lift arm or running into the forager on a tight inside turn.
Drives me mad seeing folk do it with two rounds with trailers on the inside ( No need).
Good operator will size up the field as he goes round , uphills ,down hills , wet patches , sidelands and poles and work across accordingly.
Let a trailer away even 3/4 full at the top of a steep hill or before a soft bit rather than taking them down and struggle to get up or mark the field.
Nice clean field at the end no spillage , see endless videos where as soon as the drone or camera turn up its stick full forward , hard as it will go , grass everywhere, barely making it to the end of the spout and literally falling into the trailer, or mostly on the ground. I have no idea why they think its going to impress anyone it simply highlights , to me , that they are not a good operator.
Hard as it will go , fill the trailers as fast as possible , make a mess then sit waiting for trailers to come back.
Best operators will push the forager only as fast as he needs to to have the trailer full just as the next one arrives , and the most productive machine is not the one filling the trailers the fastest but the one that ticks along and never stops moving.
Pit man likes a nice steady stream of trailers not 5 at once then a wait , then 5 at once again gives them time to pack and roll and keep the job tidy and do the job right.
Nice and steady does the job , better job , tidier job , less damage , less stress on the tackle and the men.
There are pilots and Operators and the two are very very different.
Deerefarmer
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- Location
- USA
True.
And as a trailer operator the correct side to fill on is the right side of cutter.
Change my mind
- Location
- Yorkshire
It's right the trailer lads are there looking over their left shoulder a minute the forager man is doing it all day and everything else is to his right. Your right about everything else. And I was the trailer man never driven forager
Suckndiesel
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- Location
- Newtownards
I think the correct answer to this is , yes
- Location
- midlands lreland
Why do combines unload to the left then?
In Ireland here we always filled to the left to follow the mowing and to keep the trailers off the rows of grass.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Cause that's the side the unloading spouts at and it doesn't swing to the right
- Location
- midlands lreland
I know that. But why are they not designed to fill at either side like a silage harvester?
- Location
- Yorkshire
Because designers aren't driver's
- Location
- Easter ross
It’s started
Someone pass me the popcorn
wagon vs self propelled
Shovel vs tractor and silopactor
Filling on the left or the “right” side
It’s truly Xmas/new year
Deerefarmer
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- Location
- USA
Never heard of following the mowing
In the states we have rakes and mergers that consolidate the swaths so we don't have to run over the rows and also fewer rows equals fewer trips across the fields and helps make the process more efficient .
As for combines I think @Fendt516profi answered that very well.
- Location
- South wales
We always fill to the right of the chopper apart from the outside headland run, twice around with the 4 rotor rake 3 with the two rotor trailers never run on the swath, nothing wrong with filling to the left but when chopper controls are on your right then it’s more natural to face that way
I sometimes fill on the left if it makes more sense around trees or something and trailer men say they don’t like it
but I fill the trailer with the spout front of the trailer by the pick up reel and leave it too me.... the paddy’s like too fill there own trailer for some bizarre reason ...
- Location
- South wales
Same as us although if I’m on a trailer and I see the spout move back I do come on a bit so they aren’t looking over their shoulder
90% of the time I’m on the the clamp so as long as they come in steady I don’t care what they do out the field
90% of the time I’m on the the clamp so as long as they come in steady I don’t care what they do out the field
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Baker7810
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Filling too the right when you’ve got tractors hauling makes it quicker for the driver to jump straight out to the header for a stone/ metal detection mind 
- Location
- Yorkshire
So why do people use the door on the left to get out of tractor and not the one on the right?Filling too the right when you’ve got tractors hauling makes it quicker for the driver to jump straight out to the header for a stone/ metal detection mind