What problems happen during harvesting?

[Devil's advocate]

Gas people digging up round about which is in the middle of our fields, every journey taking extra 15 mins, EACH WAY. Two month project although they will move around.

 

[Renaultman]

Oh, your wife will remind you of her distant cousins wedding on bank holiday weekend, which she did tell you about six months ago. Your mumblings about harvest will result in her having a massive sulk. You convince yourself it will be only one day. The weatherman will say you've bags of time. The old man will say it's not properly fit anyway. You go, secretly checking Facebook to see everyone nearby going hell for leather. As you drive back, the rain starts. Mrs says something like "so we could have stayed to the evening do after all".

This will be me on Saturday.

 

[farmerm]

weather

 

[farmerm]

weather

 

[farmerm]

weather

 

[puppet]

Punctures, fires, breakdowns, laid crops, ignorant motorists and the WEATHER!

...and people asking what might go wrong

 

[farmerm]

something breaking first time round the field when there is a small window in the weather

 

[GAM]

A whole load of things !
we bought a new s/h tractor especially for hay making this season. Well disaster happened when we stared to load our first lot of hay, the loader was getting slower, so we checked the oil level, we put six quarts of backend oil in to bring it up to full, this helped know end. Then when we started loading the first night... we noticed the flat eight wouldn’t open and close properly, we sprayed the electric solenoid on the third service, that worked for about two minutes, then it stopped completely, we then lost drive completely,and the work lights had dimmed by this point, we switch the tractor off only to find the battery was completely discharge/flat, we jumped started the tractor to find the alternator was not charging, we then took the battery off and charged it over night, refitted in the morning, and the tractor started, we loaded a trailer with hay, and whilst driving back to our yard the drive went completely on the main road, we managed to jump start the tractor again and remove the trailer, tested the battery and it was flat... we were unable to speak with the dealership salesman as he was in a meeting!
we ended up using our old tractor we had sold to buy the replacement tractor to finish our hay making, thankfully our customer had previously said he wouldn’t pick it up just in case we needed it!!!

 

[curlietailz]

One of the worst things is when your neighbour rings up to tell you they’re finished harvest when your crop still isn’t “fit”. Happens every year

 

[teslacoils]

One person's "fit" is different to the next.

In other news, Mrs teslacoils is taking the children boating this weekend. My wheat isn't "fit" so I'm considering going away to play toy soldiers.

 

[glasshouse]

One person's "fit" is different to the next.

In other news, Mrs teslacoils is taking the children boating this weekend. My wheat isn't "fit" so I'm considering going away to play toy soldiers.

R u not boating?

 

[teslacoils]

R u not boating?

Nooooooooooo.

 

[yellow belly]

Weather
rained off again to night

if we had a dry continentle climate harvest would have no problems

 

[Gedd]

As it turns out this will be exactly me on Saturday.

Just as the wheat is fit, and the sun is shining.

And I cant stand the bloke.

He'll get better as the beer goes down be better by midnight

 

[DrWazzock]

Spring barley that’s green and dead fit in the same field. Nightmare to sort out. Putting it through the continuous flow at 3tph and shrivelling the green grains up. Tried glyphosate last year and it was too slow so didn’t bother this year. No worse, no better but at least we saved the spray and didn’t run it down again.

 

[DRC]

Amazes me when you watch YouTube videos of farms, usually in the cotswolds, where they test the crop, it’s below the % to need drying and they just crack on and get it all done and on a lorry.
Be lucky if we get one afternoon here when it’s that dry.
My 23 yr old dryer is waiting on parts, fingers x that they are at least at dealer tomorrow.

 

[DrWazzock]

Neighbour has polished off 60 acres of spring barley this afternoon while we have taken two days to 40 with our old machine. Bet he didn’t break a sweat either.

 

[DrWazzock]

Amazes me when you watch YouTube videos of farms, usually in the cotswolds, where they test the crop, it’s below the % to need drying and they just crack on and get it all done and on a lorry.
Be lucky if we get one afternoon here when it’s that dry.
My 23 yr old dryer is waiting on parts, fingers x that they are at least at dealer tomorrow.

I don’t know why, but we haven’t had anything dry off the field since 2018. Makes it much harder work than it need be. If it isn’t rain, it’s regrowth and green grains due to extreme spring weather. Tiresome.

 

[DRC]

I don’t know why, but we haven’t had anything dry off the field since 2018. Makes it much harder work than it need be. If it isn’t rain, it’s regrowth and green grains due to extreme spring weather. Tiresome.

We were lucky this year with the winter barley, as I only put a couple of loads in the dryer from around headlands .
If anything the rest was too dry n those few very hot days. So I should say it’s the wheat harvest that usually is a struggle. Winter barley has all been sold and gone this year, to free up more space if we need to tip wet wheat.
We dont do big acreages a day here , as I combine and cart the grain .

 

[DrWazzock]

We were lucky this year with the winter barley, as I only put a couple of loads in the dryer from around headlands .
If anything the rest was too dry n those few very hot days. So I should say it’s the wheat harvest that usually is a struggle. Winter barley has all been sold and gone this year, to free up more space if we need to tip wet wheat.
We dont do big acreages a day here , as I combine and cart the grain .

Putting in some winter barley this autumn mainly to spread harvest. Spring barley/winter wheat means everything is ready at once here and and you say into a catchier month. Last week of July is usually fairly good here.