Last Field of Harvest 2023!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2023
- So this is the last full field of harvest for the 2023 crop year, and after two months straight, we are glad to be wrapping up! 😅
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its interesting that those side knives arent standard for you guys when cutting canola, couldnt imagine cutting without them
60 bu/ac sind ja auch nur ca 4t. Wenn die sonst 1,5 oder 2 dreschen glaub ich schon dass das geht, aber ich hab mir das selbe gedacht, wie man überhaupt losfahren mag ohne Trennmesser
Hab bei Landwirt in MV gesehn dass er sie sogar im roggen verwendent
ist natürlich eher nicht wichtig bei dünnen rapsbeständen, aber würde ihm natürlich viel ärger und auch erstragsverlust sparen. was ich aber nicht verstehe ist das sie nachts im feuchten trotzdem fahren wenn es schon im trockenen nicht läuft, dann stell ich die kiste doch hin und komm am nächsten tag wieder wenn es hell ist und trocken.
Spring OSR is generally a bit less branched/intertwined, but I still wouldn’t like to cut it without a side knife 😂🇬🇧
Electric/hydraulically driven side knives are essential for straight cutting canola! You know what you have to do Mike!
Hey Mike, I don’t know if you would/will read this, but we had the privilege to test a large variety of combines in tough conditions here in Germany this year and we had some interesting results when it comes to plugging: Claas combines did not plug, new Holland combines had one plug in about 600 acres, John Deere s series and x series did not continue after 2 hours of constantly plugging, Fendt ideal combines plugged less then John Deere, case combine had some plugs, not so many… maybe that interests you! Please sent me a massage if you want more info and images, etc!
Seems like JD really messed up. Feel like a million dollar combine should even do well in tough conditions
Try a Gleaner cleaner combine as it will not plug and it will put the cleanest sample in the bin, bar none.
Hopefully Gleaner will start selling their combines in Europe as they are sold in Australia.@@rickdubbink
Try a Gleaner cleaner combine as it will not plug and it will put the cleanest sample in the bin, bar none.
Hopefully Gleaner will start selling their combines in Europe as they are sold in Australia.
@@John-nc4bl gleaner combines are not sold in germany i believe
ich fahre einen JD s670 und habe es in den letzten 5 jahren nicht ein einziges mal geschafft den drescher/das Dreschwerk zu verstopfen. selbst bei grünen bio beständen wenn es nachts feucht war und der motor regelrecht um hilfe geschriehen hat.
Thanks mike jour the best. Hope jou have a good jear going on. Thanks for jou and asetyn!!!!!!
I am excited to see a case 715 on the drills
Mike I have been cutting canola for 25 years. 1st thing.. having the header divider under the crop canopy is useless, it dosen't actually divide the crop. If not the vertical knife, there needs to be a divider bar that extends up above the canopy to divide the matt of pods. Or easier solution.. try cutting with the lean of the crop when you can but I know that's not always possible. ( just my toonie worth of advice)
Interesting video. Greetings from Dundalk, Ireland.
Possibility you need to wear Lee’s Claas jacket while driving the X9 on video and magically a different shade of green combine will appear 😂📹🤣
Hey Mike. Save yourself a couple of years of pain and heartache, skip the Claas and go straight to New Holland. You'll end up there anyway. Cheers for the great content.
Mike, you have the fix for the plugging on your header. Hanging on the backside are the yellow divider rods. Put them on and will not have that issue. I have dealt with same issue before running just the snout in canola.
Thanks Tyson!
just add a black plastic pipe on for a tall canola year . If you paint it yellow it will look factory < LOL
In Europa we have knives on both side of the header when cutting stranding canola.
Hey there Mike a little piece of flat iron like the ones on the old Massey header from the real arm down to the divider board will push the crop down under instead of it spearing on the divider
Amazing crop. I can see why northern Saskatchewan land prices are increasing fastest rate in the province. Always a good feeling to be done👍
Lots of guys had problems with standing canola not drying down like the seed was dry but the straw don’t wanna dry … I am and always will be a firm believer in swathing canola
Mike I've followed your videos for a long time..as a young kid back in the 60's I'd run a 95 JD..cutting wheat maybe 400 acres a year...and I'd be foolish to give advice on dialing in any of your equipment...Thanks for your letting us Ride along
Should of went with Side Knives, night and day difference in the conditions your combining in. The Flat Tooth Comb Chaffer will also help cleanup your sample.
No “Adios Amigos” at the end. 😢 Mike left me hanging. 😂
Yeah. That was a pretty abrupt ending . . .
What’s with that???
I still like swathing canola...quite a few guys here straight combined canola and went back to swathing. My neighbor seeded exact same day as me...same canola...i swathed and was finished 2 weeks ago...hes just on it now, and there is still alot of green straw.
Me as well
It is alway a joy to watch your video's. I actually am quite surprised that you don't use the side knives in canola. Yes, they will give some losses, but probably way less than what you have now: by just jiggling the brittle pods a lot of the canola will fall out. And now you are jiggling a lot more around. Just as putting the reel down into the canola will cause a lot of head losses.
What I am always looking for is the comments of other crop farmers. Some of them are very interesting.
As a European farmer I am in the market for buying two combines (my two NH CR9090 have done 11.500 hectares each ( 29.000 acres)). It will most definitely not be an X9. Probably one new NH CR 10.90 on tracs for eventually corn and one CR9.90 on wheels with 1.000 hectares on it. As we use 40 foot McDon headers for wheat and canola the stubble is the same with wheels or tracks. Claas are also good, but we are now very experienced with the NH technology, buying a Claas will take a lot of time to get to know them.
Oh: this year we did not plug any harvester in 1.100 acres of canola. It has happened in the past years but was very rare. (see also the comment of christianjfink)
Yeah Mike, a lot of guys where I live east of you are only using 36 to 40 foot headers. But they travel faster than you and aren't plugging. A lot of canola everywhere wouldn't lose its green stems this year even though sprayed. And lots of green undergrowth.
Need to hit your local NH dealer up for CR demo!
So happy we have a claas with geringhoff makes child’s play outta that type of crop. Can’t believe they don’t bring you demo 8700 with geringhoff head would destroy that thing!
Might be time to send those X's down the road with all the screwing around lost productivity. There are some really nice twin rotor combines on the market I would love to see you give us your opinion on.
I love watching Mike struggle through good crop. These are the problems that many farmers dream of having. God willing, the price for canola skyrockets.
Good luck with that. The crooks will think everyone had a 60 bu canola crop.
It's been falling steady
Glad you’re having a good harvest Mike!
I'm excited to see fall work
Hi Mike and team congratulations on getting harvest 2023 almost in the bag. And hi from Australia ❤
Its not that the head is too big, ( 50' ) , its the separating capacity of the machinery behind the head that is inadequate for the amount of crop that it is being fed.
Best thing for heavy canola is a swather though
You need some fish scale sheet metal out there.
good farming❤
I try to just enjoy the videos and not comment but I ran this same header last year on our farm in souther Manitoba. We had very tall lodged canola and the vertical side knives 100% fixed the issue of hanging up in the corner. Would pay for themselves very quickly in time and plugs saved. Love the vids.
I don’t know anything about canola but that stuff looks crazy tough. It’s almost surprising that you can combine it at all.
back in the 90s i used to drive a case hi 1660 yes small compared to yours mike but we had the same problem, we used a scaffold tube bent up instead of the dividers it still used to hang up now and then but was a big improvement
Fit vertical side knives. Problem solved 👍👍
You definitely need the side knives, less stressed Mr Mitchell next year. Would be interesting to see a Class cutting. I think it would be fine. But they all have their quirks.
You’ve got a look on the bright side, Mike. The areas that are gummed up are being protected from wearing out.😂
God work
that conola trying to do its best corn impression impressivly tall
Nice canola crop
on the Claas vario front, same canola bunching happens so you will need the vertical cutters on the ends as well, The Vario front is great for anything tall like canola, wheat and oats, not so good for short barley and lentils peas ect.
Thanks for the ride along Mike. You planning to use same varieties next year?
Hi Mike, rape knives are pretty much standard in the UK they seem to make a huge difference in Canola/rape, no brainer for you in a crop like that. Thanks as ever for the videos.
That is a lot of plant mass, I bet you could even plug a combine with 10 or 20 feet less of header width.
The MacDon FD head ain't perfect, but it's pretty close. We had some wrapping on soybeans but canola was trouble free.
No side cutter, but there's a bar that extends from the header which seems to help separate the canola. Heavy crops can definitely be more challenging though 😉
Mike , youre correct , 50 ft is too big head for those sort of crops, 45 ft would be plenty !!!
Harvesting is made easy with these amazing machines
Sure beats using scythes and a threshing machine!!!!
Hello Mike 👍😉🇮🇹
I know what your problem with your header is. Your running a pea auger on them instead of a canola auger 😉
Mike, you sound like my wife when driving a car. Full send, all or nothing. She's cold, so full blast with the heat. Now too hot, so full blast with A/C. Hope you tried the reel somewhere in the middle, though you did not mention that... 😅
Mike you know if there was a 60’ header you would be the first guy to have one, regardless if the 50’ is too big. 😂😂
There are 60 ft headers. He tried a Honeybee, didnt like it.
Honeybee makes a 60 foot he tried it didn’t really like it,problem is once you go that big it cuts down on productivity a lot and hard to be efficient with it
Their combines are actually the ones in the honey bee video.
I realize he has tried a 60’. Point is he’s complaining how hard it is to cut 50, but nothing seems big enough for him.
@@davezalinko1354 It makes no sense to have less than 50 ft on it on the south farm, so it's either have $220k invested in headers and go slow up north or own 2 headers at $400k to do the same job.
I’ve found that an auger header works way better on straight cut canola for us, using our draper with the pea auger works but not near as well as good as the auger headers
Magnifique champ et la x9 1000 et la coupe est bien équipés 😊😂😮😅
Mike, I put a long steel rod at each end of the header, make sure it curves up slow and ends up higher then your canola crop, then slide of piece of 1 inch pvc pipe over it.
This way it’s slippery and the idea with the rod is to push it down and let the knife cut it off, always make sure you cut in such a way that the leaning crop falls into the standing crop.
Also at the corners of the header change the knife to smooth section.
All those tricks are cheap and very effective.
Sounds like a smart idea since European vertical side knives cause too puch pod/seed loss.
Where are your yellow rod dividers they come with our header were not tall enough just put a 2 dollar black plastic pipe extension .
i wonder if you put some heavy plastic (heavier than a trash bag) to go from the crop divider to the reel arm if that would help eliminate the stacking problem.
Cutting on an angle helps a lot.
Disappointing claas couldn’t get to you in time. Make some noise with em and pound your fist at them next year because I want to see how you grade it! We love our 8700tt.
Thanks for video
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Wish there was a way to mount a rolla cone like on the corn heads for the end of a draper
Your plugging at the end of the pickup looks like it is related to the hydraulic motor. You might have had less build-up if the motor was outside the header edges. I never ran straight heads when I farmed, but my brother did a lot, and it always seemed to be how the drive system was placed in the header instead of mounting it outside.
So the build-up in the header is seed oil and dirt? With that pebbled surface, I can see it acting like sandpaper and slowing stock feed. You should build equipment.
Reglone dry down didn't seem to work real good this fall. Nothing beats a shot of frost to bring things on. As long as it's not too early.
As for the wrap on the divider, try to cut with your crop with the lean on the open side of your header. You can overlap a bit to compensate if need be. I have had better results doing that.
Need to buy some side fingers for your reel
Here's hoping one day Mike can compare the 1100, 10T and 8900
Hopefully he could test all of them side by side. His review would be the best one out there
Would be awesome if he could also get the new big NH combine that's being unveiled in November. Their next step up from the 10.90
@@KseggOne1 Yeah I believe it's called the CR 11.90 if the leaked picture of the painted one is final, actually saw one of the silver test machines working in my area with the MacDon header, looks great
I wonder if itll be called the 11.90 or a different number system, like JD did with the X. Since it's apparently so much higher up than the 10.90
@@KseggOne1 I believe it is 11.90, they are keeping the "X.90" number scheme on their new designs and there is a picture of an 11.90 side panel
7:01 I wonder if a wind system would work because I’ve seen a couple guys start putting them on not to far way for you
The pea augers are not the most effective design to deliver the crop to the center of the head since the crop tends to slide to much on the edge of the spiralled metal.
I am big fan this machine
tried some paddles on the ends of the reel, I don't know nothing bout it just seen the paddles on a Video..paddles go on the reel like little hands...Great Vid👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I noticed that Deere has left quite a large gap between the end of the reel and the divider board which may be contributing to the buildup. A vertical knife, end paddles as mentioned and an extended height divider would greatly reduce the buildup.
mike you need a kanola knife i use them on faring sim 22
Any chance you would consider running a Case?
Need to have side knives if you’re going to have any way decent crops!!
What is the advantage of straight cutting it vs dropping a swath and picking it up? Money for gas? Time? Just curious what the logic is. Love the content. Keep on being awesome.
My guess is equipment is going to need a REAL GOOD CLEANING before equipment is put away for the season
Good to put the last ibe to bed.
buy a smaller header then the combine will have more time to process the grains, awesome crop
The guts of the combine need more threshing capacity to handle a 50 or 60 foot head.
@@John-nc4bllimited on HP….
Wouldn't cut OSR (Canola) without sideknives here in the UK Mike
Too much pod/seed loss twith side knives as well as more fuel consumed because of the extra power to drive them.
I put a long steel rod at each end of the header, make sure it curves up slow and ends up higher then your canola crop, then slide of piece of 1 inch pvc pipe over it.
This way it’s slippery and the idea with the rod is to push it down and let the knife cut it off, always make sure you cut in such a way that the leaning crop falls into the standing crop.
Also at the corners of the header change the knife to smooth section.
All those tricks are cheap and very effective.
Hey Mike have you tried switching the combine off and on again? (Sorry 😂 i know) Also do you disc the straws/ how do you prepare the field for the next crop?
Try a Gleaner cleaner combine and you will be impressed with its cleanest sample in the bin, bar none, as well as no plugging of its butt end like the others.
Much less expensive than the competition as well.
Wish you had a fd2-50’ to compare to your green head
We would never attempt to cut that crop with out side knives here in the uk
I would say 90% of people here don't use any sort of side knife
I still can't figure out if you like the honeybee heads or not
Back your header size down. 24. footer. And the combine could handle it better
they need to change the design to put cone augurs like on the corn head but with fingers instead of flighting to clear the ends. that will require changing the real lift on the end to an overhead lift
there are special canola knives you can mount to the sides that cut the canola. theyre pretty fast to attach and will save you alot of trouble and grain loss.
Mike why do you have no canola knifes?
Wish I was that short! It sucks hitting your head on everything!
There needs to be a circular shield at end of pea auger, then a sliding shield at end of real,that will allow the movement of the real.the a s s plugging will take more moving parts and more moving parts means more crap to break. Next year demo a case ih and claas up north minimum. Or rebuild some 850's with new headers. I would rather run that 750 Massey with no ac than a new bine even in milo and that would sukk.
Could you take like a 3/4 pass to solve your plugging problems. Stick the side of the header that plugs out where you already harvested. I know it's not efficient but might solve the problems problems
doesnt matter how much your taking. it will always plug on the inside of the header.
Most 99% of farmers shit down when it gets tough
How many times did you plug the combine
Was all your canola tall like that? Or is this the type of variety?
How many times did you plug the combine???…
Definitely you should swath way more canola, it would be way less stressful for you especially after a long harvest
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Why run two machines over the field when one will do the job of two resulting in less expense.
@John-nc4bl combining canola straight is way slower, so the extra time you spend combining almost justifies swathing. Plus you are not really benefiting with larger seed thus a better yeild if you spray it. Just my opinion, I have combined many high yielding canola crops (70 to 90 bushel averages) all In swaths. I like straight combining cereals straight, but prefer canola swaths. Just my opinion, everyone has there preference. But watching guys combine canola straight I can tell you, it's slow and all you deal with is tough raw straw, very hard on the combine
So this was 3 weeks ago! :o
Why no side knives Mike?
You need a side knives
How many acres in total is the North farm Mike???🤔🇨🇦
Mike are that Forrest fires still burning?🤔
Have you ever demoed a new holland?
If you aren't using the side knives you should at least have the divider bar on your point.
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Would smaller swathes help? Could you make smaller swathes? It's a great problem because of the great yields.