mossy835 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 good pics, we have no trouble at all with the jds,on the farms in the usa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 We'll be out today and tonight making more headway with the wheat, all being well. The rest of the week, as Badshot says, looks like a write-off. David, that S690i if quite a piece of work. The header and side knives look a lot neater than those on our Lexions. I expect the JD doesn't break down with the same alarming regularity as the German stuff. This year we have had no troubles with the combine and it went through the rape with no trouble and we have been working flatout harvesting the wheat and the barley. We have been doing some very long days trying to get it cut fast, I kept 3 JD 6930's and 0ne 7930 busy carting grain since sunday and we got just over 350 acres of wheat cut and 100 acres of Barley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 The combines are sitting idle today. Everyone is on tillage duty, drying, loading lorries, or like me, fighting with RPA paperwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Need I say more Oh and the other combine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Nice pics mate that is an old beast lol Mines bigger than yours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 This is what our neighbour uses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Your just jealous I know you are Not bad those z series, I spent a week or so driving a 2254 in france a year or so ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 That looks like a combine, Edward - just smaller. Is it coal-fired? We have had a change of heart and will push on with the wheat this evening. The moisture has dropped to a tolerable level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) Haha thats why we have two Its still a new combine in china http://www.deere.com/zh_CN/JDL/Product/200...intro/1076.html Edited August 4, 2009 by EdwardtheloneShooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 That looks like a combine, Edward - just smaller. Is it coal-fired? We have had a change of heart and will push on with the wheat this evening. The moisture has dropped to a tolerable level. Your lucky then mate, it has been on and off raining today and we wont be out until late tomorrow aslong as it does not rain again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badshot Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Rain? Cutting wheat all day yesterday again, started at 17.3% moisture not sure what it got down to, didn't get time to check. Did lose 3 hours to a breakdown though. Looks like it's going to be dry again today so will make a big hole in my harvest by the end of today. Hope it dries for you all further up the country. Guy down the road has a 1065 edward, the straw walkers have all just buckled near to one of the bearing mounts. They priced them up at the local dealers. £1200 each, requiring assembly. Phoned the breakers up and got a full set for £18. Apparently they ALL go at that point due to metal fatigue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 (edited) Rain? Cutting wheat all day yesterday again, started at 17.3% moisture not sure what it got down to, didn't get time to check. We got as low as 15.6% last Saturday, and it was hovering at 18-19% last night (although we continued on past midnight). Today's weather looks good. We have an awful lot of wheat to cut, and every drier working at capacity. Edited August 5, 2009 by Baldrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 we were at 16.2% yesterday and we got down to 14.8% the day before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proTOM1 Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 You guy are all very lucky with the weather up here its been rain ,drizzle then dry for a day then rain again things are getting behind every farmer i know has still got rape to cut before thinking of wheat ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryantidgwell Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 went to farm today and farmer been busy over last 2 days , cut 3 big fields on barley nearly finished and did another 3 qauters of a field of rape so i got some more swathed to shoot over and 3 fields on barley stubble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 I had no idea JD combines were quite so prevalent in my neck of the woods. I spotted four c670s at work this evening, and God knows how many of those little 'My First Combines' that Edward swears by. It's a cracking evening for cutting wheat though, and everything arriving in the sheds looks superb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 My first combine Glad to hear its all going well for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badshot Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 At last a really good day for combining, moisture down to 13% when I finished todays fields. A move is required tomorrow morning if still dry. I did put the combine under cover tonight, bound to stay dry now. Just got a fox with the .17 on the stubble behind my house, about 100yds and dropped where I got it. Crack on while you can chaps, looks like I might miss the rain that is forecast, but it will be coming up country to you I am afraid. Had a look at my direct drilling neighbours stripper header today, looks like a plague of sparrows has attacked his fields. Hope his drill copes with it or he is going to be in the **** I think. John Deeres are getting more prevalent again around here too, has it got something to do with the ridiculous cost of the claass combines do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 John Deeres are getting more prevalent again around here too, has it got something to do with the ridiculous cost of the claass combines do you think? Yes, the cost of Claas kit is a major deterrent, so too are the incessant problems with reliability. One of our 580 TTs broke down last night, and is still sitting waiting for the mechanic to attend. Our local JD dealer is making serious in-roads into Claas territory, slowly converting those people that already own JD tractors/loaders/balers, over to JD combines. The dealer's large expenditure on marketing and demonstrations has paid dividends. I've yet to see a JD combine on fire yet, which is more than can be said for the German's offering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 I went to a breakers yard the other day and was amazed at the number of burt out lexions 80% were claas (mainly the domanators and megas with the engine behind the cab) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 We finnsihed at 3:15 am this morning and we were back on the field at 6 and we are still going like crazy. We are at 13.6 % at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 I was on corn bitch duty until 0200h this morning (I did manage to bag a fox whilst enjoying a rare lull). One combine was back in action at dawn, and the other one was bolted back together by 1100h. Moisture has been pretty comparable, with Hagbergs looking good. I'm sitting in my office as I type this, looking out at a restored 325hp articulated Steiger lugging a Quivogne around the rape stubble. Sitting on duals, it makes our Xerion and Challenger look almost effeminate. However, it's noisy from 1/4 mile away - I dread to think what the driver must have to cope with. Edward, I haven't yet heard a report of a Lexion burning to a crisp in this part of the world, this summer. It's only a question of time though. We're not experiencing the same problem with dust this year though (which cost us one Lexion and one Vertec grain drier, both written off). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 you lucky people we're not that far away and we had torrential rain at 16:00 yesterday then the same for most of the night, seems like its amazingly patchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 That patchiness is amazing: we had 23mm of rain in one day, on one farm 2 miles away (lots of flattened oats), yet a totally dry day at home. I've never seen it so localised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Well we have just finnished combining because it has started to spit with rain, our moisture got down to 11.2% and when we finnished it was at 13%. Our New Holland CR9090 with a 35 ft header turned up at 9pm ready for it's demonstration tomorrow. Cant wait to drive it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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