Today at work

[Kiwi Pete]

I don’t know if it’s a particularly “Australian” thing to do, but we tend to add “Vegas” on to town names as a bit of a joke about them being a big / exciting place
Tamvegas
Dubbvegas
Brisvegas

We have Rotovegas. And The Tron, aka Hamilton

must be a thing about that name, 'coz Lewis is definitely a tron

 

[Muddyroads]

So, somewhere I was talking about how all this wheat went under water & how the heads were full of silt & that the dust was causing issues . . .
This 80 tonne bin has an auger that runs the full length of the floor, to drag grain to the centre unloading auger. It blocked up yesterday, burning out a set of belts, which I replaced with spares, which worked for a while but then also burnt out. The silt / dust is just binding it up & making it very hard to turn. Round trip of nearly 200km this morning to get more belts. Pulled the clean-out slide out from under the floor auger to let grain & dirt flow out, managed to part load one truck before it jammed up again.
It is also affecting the outloading augers on the chaser bins & the headers, reducing their capacity significantly. The grain also peaks up high ( like wet grain ) & doesn’t fliw

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There’s always something!

 

[Gerbert]

What I wouldn’t give for an auto fill arm today!!

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Here is another version of what @Gil582 posted.

≥ Omgebouwde hesston pers bundelaar hooi kleine baaltjes — Agrarisch | Werktuigen — Marktplaats

Vorige winder hebben we deze hesston 4700 om gebouwd naar bundelaar. Om kleine baaltjes 80x45x35 ( lxbxh ) te bundelen in pakketen van 4 tot 16

www.marktplaats.nl

Obviously dutch but some good photo's there.
If you look for "slangaansluiter" on the youtubes you'll find some movies.

 

[Farmer Roy]

There’s always something!

we got banned from the local GrainCorp site this afternoon as the silt was blocking their handling equipment - the angles were too shallow & the grain wouldn’t flow

 

[d williams]

we got banned from the local GrainCorp site this afternoon as the silt was blocking their handling equipment - the angles were too shallow & the grain wouldn’t flow

You said
I never said it was going to be easy

 

[Farmer Roy]

You said
I never said it was going to be easy

What I find amazing is that this wheat was obviously all totally under water ( I couldn’t get out here to look ), but how well it is standing, and how well it is still testing. Given that it was completely under water at least once, maybe twice, & had 300 mm rain on it AFTER it was ripe

for the record, it is weighing above 70, has about 1.5 % screenings, moisture 10 %, protein 11 % but falling numbers down around 60
Interestingly, the durums results were similar, but falling numbers were up around 420. The durum didn’t have this silt in it, so I’m thinking it didn’t go under water completely. . . ?

 

[Farmer Roy]

I am driving one of my harvesting contractors tractor / chaser bin. I usually jump on a chaser bin or in a truck at harvest, to be involved & to help the labour situation. We do have about a 25 - 30 year relationship.
Anyway, it’s been a trying day, so he dropped these off to me & another one to the other header driver

we won’t be working after dark as it’s just too dangerous with dust & poor visibility, with machines all working so close together

 

[d williams]

What I find amazing is that this wheat was obviously all totally under water ( I couldn’t get out here to look ), but how well it is standing, and how well it is still testing. Given that it was completely under water at least once, maybe twice, & had 300 mm rain on it AFTER it was ripe

for the record, it is weighing above 70, has about 1.5 % screenings, moisture 10 %, protein 11 % but falling numbers down around 60

Would some air blast forced into agur help ??

 

[ColinV6]

Here is another version of what @Gil582 posted.

≥ Omgebouwde hesston pers bundelaar hooi kleine baaltjes — Agrarisch | Werktuigen — Marktplaats

Vorige winder hebben we deze hesston 4700 om gebouwd naar bundelaar. Om kleine baaltjes 80x45x35 ( lxbxh ) te bundelen in pakketen van 4 tot 16

www.marktplaats.nl

Obviously dutch but some good photo's there.
If you look for "slangaansluiter" on the youtubes you'll find some movies.

This sort of thing looks promising actually. I assume unlike a fill arm which does the changeover as well you would need a double acting spool for that, plus one for the filler set up, plus one for the dribble bar / macerator and rear valve?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

haha, you might need to convince @Cab-over Pete & @Lowland1 of that

Well, Tamworth U.K. has a castle which is nowhere near as good as our castle at Kenilworth but thinks it is. Their castle is, however, the most modern building in the town except for the SnowDome and the services off the M42.

 

[Farmer Roy]

What I said before about visibility

 

[Gerbert]

This sort of thing looks promising actually. I assume unlike a fill arm which does the changeover as well you would need a double acting spool for that, plus one for the filler set up, plus one for the dribble bar / macerator and rear valve?

I don't know the setup for the stuff on the back. But for the hosecoupler you need a double acting cilinder for the blow/suck changeover on the pump and a double acting for the coupler. You can ofcourse put a 3 way hydraulic valve in between them so you only need one double acting.
Whatever floats your boat

 

[ColinV6]

I don't know the setup for the stuff on the back. But for the hosecoupler you need a double acting cilinder for the blow/suck changeover on the pump and a double acting for the coupler. You can ofcourse put a 3 way hydraulic valve in between them so you only need one double acting.
Whatever floats your boat

Interesting. Of course the manual valve on the tanker would also need to be changed to hydraulic unless this comes complete with the assembly and works in unison with the pipe attacher.

 

[d williams]

Interesting. Of course the manual valve on the tanker would also need to be changed to hydraulic unless this comes complete with the assembly and works in unison with the pipe attacher.

The lazy arm on our tanker is linked into the change over blow to suck but remember you will need to be able to shut off the lazy arm if you need to go to a manual port at a different fill point

 

[CPF]

We had some wheat, flat one year because of flooding We managed to combine it . Could not see the combine for dust It was like a sand storm when you got near the combine The dust made everything so heavy gave the combined some grief the Corn Dryer some grief and myself some grief .only got some pictures of it going through the dryer. The wheat was pretty dry only taking out a couple of percentage ,but the dryer was the only thing to get the dust out had to go through dryer twice and then it was nice and clean then.

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[chaffcutter]

@Farmer Roy if you can’t use the mother bin how are you keeping up with the combines, extra trucks?

Is it slow cutting or can they run ok?

 

[Jerry]

Keen for a fresh section this morning.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

I don’t know if it’s a particularly “Australian” thing to do, but we tend to add “Vegas” on to town names as a bit of a joke about them being a big / exciting place
Tamvegas
Dubbvegas
Brisvegas

Unless your in SA......Port Augusta is Port Augutter

 

[Farmer Roy]

@Farmer Roy if you can’t use the mother bin how are you keeping up with the combines, extra trucks?

Is it slow cutting or can they run ok?

not having that “paddock / in field storage” is a major inconvenience, but we were able to get in another B Double truck, so that helped a lot, although we did have to stop briefly a couple of times. We have 2 B Doubles ( approx 40 t ) & 2 singles ( approx 24 t ) running

even though it is going around 5 t / ha, they are only harvesting at about 4 - 5 km / hr, so the t / hr rate isn’t unmanageable with what we have.
The conditions are quite hard on the machines & we were only talking tonight about how amazing it is they stand up to it & how the JD engineers / designers probably had no conception of what they would be subjected to
Glen was also commenting on how much maintenance he would have to do on them before the next season . . .