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Hello all,

Here are some pics of this years rhye threshing for a friend of my father. It was about one ha. which we mowed in one night after work.

The pictures were made at the beginning, before it got dark.

http://picasaweb.google.com/EmielTiemes ... directlink

Best regards

Emiel

Hi Emiel,

That looks like a great few minuites of work. I have a friend who lives close to a town called Horsham in Western Victoria Australia. His father who is well into his eighties always insists on sowing a few acres of wheet every year with his old E27N fordson P6. It is those small jobs that keep old farmers alive. Keep up the good work.

Regards, Frank.

Emiel,

The Rye we used to cut here in Norfolk and in Germany, grew to about 2m tall then laid down flat. That was really interestng to combine when you saw the crop coming towards you and you had not cut it.

And where are your long divider wings? You should always have them fitted on both sides of the cutter bar. I have proved to many sceptical operators how much grain loss they save.

I was very sceptical myself until the demonstrators at Claas, with whom I was working at that time, took me to one side and showed me how to use them. From that day forwards I never set up a combine without them.

Hello Brian,

This Rye was about 1,5 meter tall I think. My father told about it used to be even taller when he was young, and it was harvested lying.

I just thought I would not need those dividers, but changed my mind about 15 minutes after we started. Driving home to collect them was going to cost to much time, so we did without.


Do you use them for wheat and barley also? I can not remember having seen that around here. Our wheat is only about 30 to 40 cm tall.

The combining is for us a job of continuous learning and making mistakes, but it makes fun and the work quality improves rapidly. (at least we think it does)

We have something to discuss in Meddo I think.

Best regards

Emiel

Great pictures, Emiel.
I can imagine you like to do these kind of jobs!

Emiel,

You use them for everything if they will work. Barley is one of the best crops because the heads hang down and get cut off at the end of the cutterbar. The large divider should be set to push the leaning heads onto the uncut crop. If you do a calculation to give you the kg per hectare from behind the cutterbar it works out very high compared to the losses through the straw walkers and sieve areas.

No one worrys about 10 to 15 ears on the ground behind the cutterbar but show them 12 grains per 1/10th metre and the blood pressure goes up.

When I did evening courses for farmers I had a set of boards with grain stuck on them that we left in the entrance hall to the venue. We asked the question "which one is acceptable"? Of course, the answer was always the least. When you then expressed it as a % of the crop it was minute. Show them the acceptable loss level that Claas and New Holland work to, 2%, they would go balistic. Then show them the figures for 1/2 an ear per 1/10th of a metre behind the cutter bar and the blood pressure would rise even more.

I sold many sets of long dividers for the local dealers.