......Don't any of you guys just straight cut ?
Harvest worries
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Harvest worries
Just wondering what are the crops and conditions lookin like?
Here our swather is just about ready to get on the field. The Barley got Hailed out pretty bad but Yellow mustard is lookin AOK.
The Combine hydralic clutch needs TLC but should work after a day of fixin or so. New Holland TR70
This year we got 4 grain trucks parked on the fields are workin ok I guess
83 GMC 5 ton Detroit that runs warm
63 IH 3 ton (I love driving this truck it has the stubnose and you just feel like the King of the road
61 IH 2 ton this is a one owner truck
56 Fargo (my Hemi) can't wait to drive it loaded see if it's true that you can spin the rears with a load.
I know no Fords but that's because You know what I don't know why not?
Here our swather is just about ready to get on the field. The Barley got Hailed out pretty bad but Yellow mustard is lookin AOK.
The Combine hydralic clutch needs TLC but should work after a day of fixin or so. New Holland TR70
This year we got 4 grain trucks parked on the fields are workin ok I guess
83 GMC 5 ton Detroit that runs warm
63 IH 3 ton (I love driving this truck it has the stubnose and you just feel like the King of the road
61 IH 2 ton this is a one owner truck
56 Fargo (my Hemi) can't wait to drive it loaded see if it's true that you can spin the rears with a load.
I know no Fords but that's because You know what I don't know why not?
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Our crops are looking decent, I just swathed the wheat yesterday and I would guess it would do about 30. The flax and the durum look very good too. Got the Massy all shined up and ready to go, just got to do a little fixing on some bins and it should be smooth sailing.
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What model massey? How do you like it?
Our New Holland is slow and ok on the mechanical side, but were it excells is the grain loss very minimal. It does tend to beat some of the larger thinner crops like oats.
Our New Holland is slow and ok on the mechanical side, but were it excells is the grain loss very minimal. It does tend to beat some of the larger thinner crops like oats.
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Some wheat swathed and combined, some of canola is swathed and should be combined in afew days to a week. Seems early but really it`s close to Sept. already. Where did the summer go?
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We have an 850 Massey. It has been a good combime does an excellent job of thrashing all crops we have grown and other then the odd bearing we have not done alot to it other than regular maintenance stuff.
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We straight cut the durum and the flax. The saw fly is back agian so we have to swath the wheat before the sawfly does, and they don't do near as nice job as the swather.
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I talked to my dad last night and he said his crops are looking as good as ever, now just have to see if the prices cooperate!
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So you have a Versatille 4400 swather? but it's a 250 not a 240. If it was a 240 you wouldn't have any trouble as it's the same engine as the 300.
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Originally Posted by 51dueller
So you have a Versatille 4400 swather? but it's a 250 not a 240. If it was a 240 you wouldn't have any trouble as it's the same engine as the 300.
(CCIL 550 thoose green ones wityh a metal roof)
CCIL were pretty much repainted other brands of farm machinery.
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There is a lot of the harvest done here around Regina, Thanks to the weather it is going fast. Makes me a very busy man, keeping the farmers in the feild. I have put in about 25 hours in the last two days. Too bad the government take a lot of that overtime.