How agriculture works thread

[ArlyA]

Laura who farms in Nebraska is finishing up planting.

 

[ArlyA]

Welker farms in Montana putting in spring wheat with there new 540 hp CaseIH tractor. Ask if you don't know what spring wheat is. This tractor has a CVX tranny and pulling a 70ft drill..

 

[ArlyA]

Cutting and bailing hay in Finland. In this video there are no English subtitles but in later ones she added them. Looks like swamp grass they are harvesting. If anyone knows what it is, please tell us. They keep checking the hay for moisture and rolling it over before they bail it.

 

[sixdogs]

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[ptsg]

Making small square bales in Southern France.

 

[sixdogs]

Making small square bales in Southern France.

How fast is the tractor going on those gravel roads? Seems pretty fast.

 

[ptsg]

How fast is the tractor going on those gravel roads? Seems pretty fast.

That Case should have the 50 km/h gearbox instead of the 40 km/h, so I would say around that. Maybe 55 km/h max or 34 MPH, since they always go a little bit faster that the rated speed.

 

[sixdogs]

That's an excellent video.

 

[ovrszd]

First time I saw a tractor on the road in Europe I noticed it's speed..... They road their equipment a lot so it's important to have a faster speed to cause less congestion in traffic.

 

[sixdogs]

First time I saw a tractor on the road in Europe I noticed it's speed..... They road their equipment a lot so it's important to have a faster speed to cause less congestion in traffic.

There is a Fendt around here that is as fast as a car. Not sure of the speed but never saw one so fast.

 

[ArlyA]

The young gal in Finland is changing out the plows landslides (parts correct name?). I'd suggest she wear gloves at all times. In one of her video's I noted they are a small (very small) milking operation. Something more common in the states that faded out in 1950's.

 

[ArlyA]

Combines with large headers operating in Brazil. Some are 60ft.

 

[ArlyA]

Copping some type of grass crop in England. If you know what they are copping, please let us know.

 

[ovrszd]

The young gal in Finland is changing out the plows landslides (parts correct name?). I'd suggest she wear gloves at all times. In one of her video's I noted they are a small (very small) milking operation. Something more common in the states that faded out in 1950's.

Excellent video. I follow Metsa Man on You Tube. I am always looking in the background at their farmsites, buildings, fences, roadways, etc. I love that 3pt boom she was using.

That young woman knows her way around tools. Certainly not a staged video of her doing work. She does things like that daily!!!!

Wonder how many viewers know why she cut that nut in half?

Thanks for that video Arly!!!!

 

[5030]

Excellent video. I follow Metsa Man on You Tube. I am always looking in the background at their farmsites, buildings, fences, roadways, etc. I love that 3pt boom she was using.

That young woman knows her way around tools. Certainly not a staged video of her doing work. She does things like that daily!!!!

Wonder how many viewers know why she cut that nut in half?

Thanks for that video Arly!!!!

She needs one of those Astro Pneumatics Thor impact guns I have. No breaker bar needed, if it don't break loose, it snaps the bolt off. Far as gloves go, I don't wear any either, not into latex gloves except when gutting deer. She don't have 'piano hands' that I can see...lol

Have a couple nut splitters in my toolbox that never get used.

In the other vid, they are harvesting immature hay crop and piling it for haylage to feed cattle. In Europe they pile it and let it ferment. Here we wrap it in plastic sleeves and ferment it because as a rule we don't 'cop' (it's chop btw) it. We round bale it (high moisture and the round balers have knives inside that chop the crop as it's made into rounds, which are then put in plastic sleeves to cook.

Interestingly, the new baler I just bought has the high moisture haylage settings in the computer. Not something I'd use and I didn't get it with the rotary chopper knives anyway. The new bailer has the normal (dry hay) setting -20%, wheat straw setting -10% and haylage setting -40%. All that does in control the density of the bale as it forms. Speaking of density, with the new baler, I can custom set the bale density via the computer so I can roll a soft center bale (for easy spearing) and then progressively increase the density. I'm finishing the bales at 2500 psi which gives me an extremely solid bale when net wrapped keeps really well out doors. My old NH I traded in had adjustable density as well but not to the degree this one has and my old one was mechanical, this one is all controlled by the on board computer. I input the density on the screen and the bailer adjusts to it, no touch. All the rounds I ran on the farm fields here are leaving on Friday morning. I increased the cost per bale to reflect the cost of fuel and fertilizer and my customer is good with it, so on we go...

 

[ovrszd]

She needs one of those Astro Pneumatics Thor impact guns I have. No breaker bar needed, if it don't break loose, it snaps the bolt off. Far as gloves go, I don't wear any either, not into latex gloves except when gutting deer. She don't have 'piano hands' that I can see...lol

Have a couple nut splitters in my toolbox that never get used.

In the other vid, they are harvesting immature hay crop and piling it for haylage to feed cattle. In Europe they pile it and let it ferment. Here we wrap it in plastic sleeves and ferment it because as a rule we don't 'cop' (it's chop btw) it. We round bale it (high moisture and the round balers have knives inside that chop the crop as it's made into rounds, which are then put in plastic sleeves to cook.

Interestingly, the new baler I just bought has the high moisture haylage settings in the computer. Not something I'd use and I didn't get it with the rotary chopper knives anyway. The new bailer has the normal (dry hay) setting -20%, wheat straw setting -10% and haylage setting -40%. All that does in control the density of the bale as it forms. Speaking of density, with the new baler, I can custom set the bale density via the computer so I can roll a soft center bale (for easy spearing) and then progressively increase the density. I'm finishing the bales at 2500 psi which gives me an extremely solid bale when net wrapped keeps really well out doors. My old NH I traded in had adjustable density as well but not to the degree this one has and my old one was mechanical, this one is all controlled by the on board computer. I input the density on the screen and the bailer adjusts to it, no touch. All the rounds I ran on the farm fields here are leaving on Friday morning. I increased the cost per bale to reflect the cost of fuel and fertilizer and my customer is good with it, so on we go...

With plow bolts the less aggressive you are the better your chances. The fastest way yo split that nut was just like she did it. She didn't split it because she didn't have the strength to loosen it. And she would have been happy if it twisted off.

 

[ptsg]

Chisel plowing the olive trees with a Kubota M7060, despite the typo on the video title. The guy also has a Valtra A63, hence the confusion I think.

 

[5030]

This year, least around here, agriculture isn't working all that good. Everything is too expensive and new crop prices are down.

With plow bolts the less aggressive you are the better your chances. The fastest way yo split that nut was just like she did it. She didn't split it because she didn't have the strength to loosen it. And she would have been happy if it twisted off.

I just blow them apart when I replace plow steels. One way or another they let go.

 

[ptsg]

Plow day somewhere in Minnesota(?) with some older Farmall and Case tractors.

 

[ArlyA]

I'm in northern MN now but was at one of my family farms in central SD and did chat with my brother in law while there. Also got a few pictures but I'll edit them when we get home. Got a picture of a locale big bud to post. My bro says there are several still used there.