Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
Well that’s me leaving the thread..
Hope everyone gets going soon..
Rained off after 20 acres though and steadily pouring now...
The "I've not started yet" thread
- Thread starter Zippy768
- Start date
Well that’s me leaving the thread..
Hope everyone gets going soon..
Rained off after 20 acres though and steadily pouring now...
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Going to start....and Finnish.....tomorrow!
- Location
- Minehead,Somerset
I too have to leave this thread as managed to get combine here Wednesday and start my 39acs W Barley but had drizzle showers through the day although not enough to wet the road but damp . Finished it off on Thursday and despite rain only couple miles away and drizzle on the hills got it baled also . Tried some Graham WW next door but 19% so went stacking straw, 197 x 7ft 6 stringers [335kg/bale].
Wheat was 17 % friday so went on and cut 28 acs on my own as combine was here and no one else wanted to go.
Moved yesterday to a customer , delayed start to 1.30pm to get to 16.2% and heck of a crop but got 39 acs done by 8.15 pm and moisture down to 15 .2%.
Currently waiting to go again but still drizzle about and 17.5%
Wheat was 17 % friday so went on and cut 28 acs on my own as combine was here and no one else wanted to go.
Moved yesterday to a customer , delayed start to 1.30pm to get to 16.2% and heck of a crop but got 39 acs done by 8.15 pm and moisture down to 15 .2%.
Currently waiting to go again but still drizzle about and 17.5%
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
The dream
- Location
- Lincolnshire
The dream
Lol. 250ac last year was done between 9am and 5pm.
This year 110ac. Big, 50acish square fields. Be done in time for tea.
- Location
- East yorks
3mm overnight and a heavy shower at 10am so that’s put pay to anything here till Tuesday I would say
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Mines going to central store. And it's got a fair lean on it now.
- Location
- East yorks
Mines off to commercial store so as it’s only 16 aug I will wait till it drops to the 16’s
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Ah, I want it over and done with, so it's getting done. Has had two weeks of weather on it post- roundup so will be breaking down next.
- Location
- East yorks
I only have about 50 acres to go so a couple of good days will see it done and then it’s a wait for the rest of the spring barley and spring wheat
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Just to be nosey, what do you cut with?
- Location
- East yorks
Mf34 but are the moment I am having to lead off on my own as due to covid the child care plans got fecked up so dad is covering my lads and my nephews and the store closes about 7pm plus I have the days off work so it’s fairly chilled affair at the mo
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Aye, bloody childcare! Mrs teslacoils has been forewarned.
Well that's tempting fate
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Drizzle. Unforecast. To say I'm not pleased is an understatement. Still, if it will thresh by noon it's getting cut and the store can sort it out. Dry east. British summer. f**king joke.
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
The fact you've had some damp this year i'm sure will have helped your crops.. Relax, your harvest takes 1 day
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It's more economically important that my harvest is successful than when I was cutting 2500ac for other folk. No yurts, let cottages etc here to pay for the kids shoes. Mrs teslacoils has spent all her dosh on something called a paddleboard. Harvest needs to perform even if it's not a big area.
Maybe your combine is too big and expensive . I’ve got 120 acre left to do and it’ll take me 5/6 days with carting and drying it myself . You must get bored if harvest is over in a day .
It’s someone else’s.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I don't fancy shelling out the ÂŁÂŁÂŁ. I do t even have a trailer. Forecast is now rain tomorrow, and at the weekend. Don't you all get sick of waiting for the "better next week"? Harvest has never been enjoyable - it's just something to get done as quickly as possible.
My mindset would be different on a kind land, low rent farm with bought and paid for kit. The reality is I farm a very high yielding, but potentially tricky soiled farm, with a punishing mortgage to pay.
It's worth exactly nothing to me until it's safely in the shed. And as said, it's my entire income. So by the end of tonight, close to my entire income will be known. Woohoo. Mrs teslacoils is already suggesting things to spend it on. I'm thinking another 1 percent of the mortgage gone.
My mindset would be different on a kind land, low rent farm with bought and paid for kit. The reality is I farm a very high yielding, but potentially tricky soiled farm, with a punishing mortgage to pay.
It's worth exactly nothing to me until it's safely in the shed. And as said, it's my entire income. So by the end of tonight, close to my entire income will be known. Woohoo. Mrs teslacoils is already suggesting things to spend it on. I'm thinking another 1 percent of the mortgage gone.