- Location
- Near Colchester
Penultimate cow calved, at last.
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Chopping wholecrop. I doubt I will be doing wholecrop again, what a total pain in the dick.
does winter linseed combine better than spring ? spring can be a right pain in the d**k !!Well into Winter Linseed now
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Straw will be going to a Power Station rather than burnt in the field.
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The crop lodged very bad, we tried to direct cut with a kemper header, which went well, for 1 meter. Looking at the weather we wanted to harvest that day (also there already was mold coming below) so we called a neighbour who has mowers without conditioners. I raked it, lots of stuff on the ground that I wanted in the pit but hey.How come
Certainly sounds a testing few daysThe crop lodged very bad, we tried to direct cut with a kemper header, which went well, for 1 meter. Looking at the weather we wanted to harvest that day (also there already was mold coming below) so we called a neighbour who has mowers without conditioners. I raked it, lots of stuff on the ground that I wanted in the pit but hey.
Try again, the stuff didn't want to go through the corncracker. Contractor went home again, corncracker out and it finally went well. But, at the peas are not cracked, they aren't all that hard so I hope that digest allright.
We'll see what the cows think but it has been quite a costly experience.
I know the perils of wholecrop from the harvester side. Has anyone near you got a Rape Swather? They work well as long as you have no stones, I had a pebble go through a corn cracker and it smoothed off every tooth before I managed to stop the machine. Went to a combine type Forschitt header then that worked well although slow. Contractor doesn’t have a Direct Cut header? If there is enough of you doing it a Forschitt header isn’t expensive or convert a combine header.The crop lodged very bad, we tried to direct cut with a kemper header, which went well, for 1 meter. Looking at the weather we wanted to harvest that day (also there already was mold coming below) so we called a neighbour who has mowers without conditioners. I raked it, lots of stuff on the ground that I wanted in the pit but hey.
Try again, the stuff didn't want to go through the corncracker. Contractor went home again, corncracker out and it finally went well. But, at the peas are not cracked, they aren't all that hard so I hope that digest allright.
We'll see what the cows think but it has been quite a costly experience.
Can you combine it? I rent a 50acre block next door which has to have 4 acre of quarry bedrock under cereals It’s worth it as it’s next door but otherwise would be a right pain!It was only 3 hectare so I really didnt really feel like calling a contractor with a direct cut header. The whole story from trying to harvest with the kemper header untill having it in the pit was only 6 hours so I can't complain about the contractors and my neighbours dedication.
I figured a flail harvester like you guys on the island seem to have in every hedge might be just the tool. I am not interested in investing money in this project. I don't mind that I tried but honestly I didn't even really wanted to do this. We hired this field with part of the deal being it has to be cereals, so hey. We might end the agreement, I don't know.
I don’t know. This is the first time I’ve ever grown any of it.does winter linseed combine better than spring ? spring can be a right pain in the willy !!
What variety are they? Are they destined for processing?Cabbage harvest started today these were planted on the 19th of April.View attachment 976409View attachment 976407View attachment 976408
Don’t know variety and for processing yes.What variety are they? Are they destined for processing?
Naylors ?Cabbage harvest started today these were planted on the 19th of April.View attachment 976409View attachment 976407View attachment 976408