That is correct. If the field is the right size and shape, it is a very efficient way to harvest it. By doing this, the combine is always in the wheat and not making any sharp corners (until they clean up what's left around the fences). It takes time to turn a big combine 90 degrees or 180 degrees (and during that time the combine is not harvesting). Cutting in a circle or oval from the center eliminates a lot of that wasted time. Also, the trucks and tractors can empty any of the combines in the field without having to drive around uncut wheat.
@@MustangsTrainsMowers Our family farm is in the same geographical area (The Palouse) of Washington state USA, about 75 miles SE of the farm in this video. My brother and his family run the farm now. He currently farms about 3200 acres. This type of harvesting in a circle, oval or kidney-shape with the contour of the hills is quite common in the Palouse, where it can be done (based on the shape and hills in a particular field). There are several fields (or parts of field) where we would harvest in this way. But in the Palouse there are lots of steep rolling hills (up to about 40 - 45 degree slopes). So the primary way to harvest a field is along the contours of the hills. You can see it in this beautiful photo of the area. www.pandotrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Palouse.jpg This photo shows how it is more important to follow the contours of the hills. This reduces soil erosion and during harvest the combines can avoid going straight up or down the hills. external-preview.redd.it/9mR4lY0J3pLK_HIxMD9WZfQOFIgJdXH5jjsnPJv-dYQ.jpg?auto=webp&s=5ec380f306dc901fee847409cbdd13d25413daaf Nearly all of the combine harvesters have automatic leveling on them so that they can follow the contour of the hillsides. This way they save much more of the grain than if they were going straight up or down the hills. c8.alamy.com/comp/R41YME/usa-washington-state-palouse-region-wheat-harvest-in-the-deep-bowls-and-hills-R41YME.jpg
love the movie - i could almost smell the wheat! As a girl I loved riding the tractor around the wheat fields with Grandpa Nelson.
Glorious!! Grandeur!!
I would love to go to that area looks great how they work those slopes here in the Uk everything is so smaller.
Great video, great perspective!!
Dave Ditto Thanks Dave!
If I saw that right, they started harvesting from the center and go out in a circle?
That is correct. If the field is the right size and shape, it is a very efficient way to harvest it. By doing this, the combine is always in the wheat and not making any sharp corners (until they clean up what's left around the fences). It takes time to turn a big combine 90 degrees or 180 degrees (and during that time the combine is not harvesting). Cutting in a circle or oval from the center eliminates a lot of that wasted time. Also, the trucks and tractors can empty any of the combines in the field without having to drive around uncut wheat.
How common is that practice?
@@MustangsTrainsMowers Our family farm is in the same geographical area (The Palouse) of Washington state USA, about 75 miles SE of the farm in this video. My brother and his family run the farm now. He currently farms about 3200 acres.
This type of harvesting in a circle, oval or kidney-shape with the contour of the hills is quite common in the Palouse, where it can be done (based on the shape and hills in a particular field).
There are several fields (or parts of field) where we would harvest in this way. But in the Palouse there are lots of steep rolling hills (up to about 40 - 45 degree slopes). So the primary way to harvest a field is along the contours of the hills. You can see it in this beautiful photo of the area. www.pandotrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Palouse.jpg
This photo shows how it is more important to follow the contours of the hills. This reduces soil erosion and during harvest the combines can avoid going straight up or down the hills. external-preview.redd.it/9mR4lY0J3pLK_HIxMD9WZfQOFIgJdXH5jjsnPJv-dYQ.jpg?auto=webp&s=5ec380f306dc901fee847409cbdd13d25413daaf Nearly all of the combine harvesters have automatic leveling on them so that they can follow the contour of the hillsides. This way they save much more of the grain than if they were going straight up or down the hills. c8.alamy.com/comp/R41YME/usa-washington-state-palouse-region-wheat-harvest-in-the-deep-bowls-and-hills-R41YME.jpg