How agriculture works thread

[5030]

Neat harvesting wheat video made at an unknown location. Are these rear dump grain carts? These headers don't have wheels on them? Having worked on and in combines, I always get a kick out of these clean looking operations. One of the dirtiest jobs I've ever been in.

If you really want to get dirty, try windrowing chopped corn stalks and then bailing them for bedding. That is nasty, dirty and hard on equipment.

 

[JethroB]

As a kid I helped a local farmer harvest sweet potatoes a time or two. This area was the sweet potato capital until a blight or something wiped out the industry decades ago. Basic equipment then that dug and them up onto a shaker conveyor. We picked, graded and put them in wood and wire bushel (?) boxes. I think I mostly walked behind picking for those missed on the ground. Hard work, glad I was younger and closer to the ground.

 

[JethroB]

If you really want to get dirty, try windrowing chopped corn stalks and then bailing them for bedding. That is nasty, dirty and hard on equipment.

My BIL once cut and large stacked/baled cotton stalks. He said the cows would nibble on it a bit. Peanut hay is big around here, a free byproduct. Dirty stuff.

 

[5030]

Corn stalks are really hard on a round bailer with belts like all of them are today. The best bailer for corn stalks was the old (as in ancient), New Holland 'chain' bailers. No belts to destroy, just an endless chain with metal rollers. They sucked for hay but for cornstalks they were great. Only issue was, they were all manual tie twine and you had to turn the crank on the bailer to move the twine arms.

 

[Creamer]

Neat harvesting wheat video made at an unknown location. Are these rear dump grain carts? These headers don't have wheels on them? Having worked on and in combines, I always get a kick out of these clean looking operations. One of the dirtiest jobs I've ever been in.

I don't think I have ever seen that paint job on Claas Lexion. Is anybody taking bets on what paint job Claas lexion ends up with?

These headers are too small for wheels. Yes thy are rear dump carts - a very common thin in Europe where they do not haul miles like we do in the US. Their tractors see a lot of roadwork for jobs like this.

I find carts like these amazing that they do not tip over. There are videos of them doing silage with these.

My Dad had a smaller one that only slid up about a foot before tipping and that was done with only one set of cylinders that would hold a tandem truck load but not near this size. It looked and worked like this one.

 

[ArlyA]

Corn stalks are really hard on a round bailer with belts like all of them are today. The best bailer for corn stalks was the old (as in ancient), New Holland 'chain' bailers. No belts to destroy, just an endless chain with metal rollers. They sucked for hay but for cornstalks they were great. Only issue was, they were all manual tie twine and you had to turn the crank on the bailer to move the twine arms.

I owned and operated New Holland chain round baler which worked great on hay and the twine feeder was electric.

 

[ptsg]

Neat harvesting wheat video made at an unknown location. Are these rear dump grain carts? These headers don't have wheels on them? Having worked on and in combines, I always get a kick out of these clean looking operations. One of the dirtiest jobs I've ever been in.

Yes. those are indeed rear dump trailers with suspension, steer axles and air brakes with ABS most likely. They most likely dump to a pit, then an auger moves the crop to the desired bin.

 

[ArlyA]

Yes. those are indeed rear dump trailers with suspension, steer axles and air brakes with ABS most likely. They most likely dump to a pit, then an auger moves the crop to the desired bin.

I can't the see "steering axles" if you have pics of these, please post.

 

[ptsg]

I can't the see "steering axles" if you have pics of these, please post.

Here is a good video showing what I meant. It even shows the feedback linkage on the tongue of the trailer. On a triaxle, the rear and front axle are steerable to help maneuvering and reducing drag.

 

[5030]

I owned and operated New Holland chain round baler which worked great on hay and the twine feeder was electric.

The guy down the road has one and the twine arms are actuated by a handwheel on a shaft. Maybe the later ones had electric twine as I'm only familiar with his. Problem with running dry hay with one is, one they are slow and 2, they loose a lot of plant matter out the bottom, especially bailing alfalfa Wicked on cornstalks though. All he uses his for is cornstalks.