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Post by HuskerGLEANER on Nov 11, 2011 1:58:40 GMT -5
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Post by Southern on Nov 11, 2011 5:12:35 GMT -5
I wonder how they harvest sunflowers. That was something I couldn't figure it out. Thanks for showing that, now I know. One farmer here plants a small patch, but I never could catch him out cutting it.
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Post by djt14 on Nov 11, 2011 11:29:02 GMT -5
Looks good Marc. But if its black gold shouldn't you keep it in the hopper and off the ground lol.
Thanks for sharing
Dallas
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Post by woltersfarm on Nov 11, 2011 12:13:44 GMT -5
nice pics, looks like your gonna need a nice Vertical tillage tool to kill those stalks   |
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Post by jasonbengough on Nov 11, 2011 17:37:56 GMT -5
Nice Pictures!! How many acres of Corn & Sunflowers did you have this year to harvest? Always enjoy seeing Gleaners in action. I think the new Flexdraper from Agco/Gleaner would look good on the R62, should be able to run it.
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Post by HuskerGLEANER on Nov 11, 2011 22:52:17 GMT -5
Southern, glad to share it. Unfortunately you have be very careful when combining them as they are known to start combines on fire. The dust they produce is extremely flammable so you have to blow off your combine at least once a day. We blew ours off every night after we were done. One day when I had a bad tailwind, it caused an excessive amount of dust to blow up into the engine compartment and the engine was completely covered in it. About halfway through the day, I smelt smoke, shut everything down as fast as I could to find the dust smoldering on the covers of the exhaust, the manifold, and under the oil pan. Sunflowers also produce lots of static electricity causing many guys to have fires in their rotors, particularly John Deeres and guys say that is because of the plastic. Dallas, haha that is a good point! My friend who was running grain cart wasn't there yet and those sunflowers pitch up alot so when I crossed the draw heading to the truck they settled down on me a little too much.. woltersfarm, for the corn stalks we graze them in the winter, then in the spring we go over them with a rolling stalk chopper and strip till into that so we get them broke down pretty good. But I am kind of glad you mentioned that because it would help with our dilemma on the sunflower stalks. That sunflower field is dryland and we were wanting to chem-fallow it next summer and drill it into wheat in the fall. Unfortunately from strip tilling it it ridged pretty bad and it's too rough to no-till back into wheat and we don't really want to disc it because we try to stay completely no-till on the dryland. Do you think running one of those vertical tillage tools over it would smooth out the field without moving too much dirt? Jason, we have 400 acres of corn and 200 of sunflowers. I have been trying really hard to get the old man to consider a draper, a dynaflex would be amazing, but I'll probably have to keep wishing..  |
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Post by AgriKing on Nov 12, 2011 18:36:15 GMT -5
did you have some flat corn, or is that how your head cuts the stalk?
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Post by HuskerGLEANER on Nov 12, 2011 22:55:51 GMT -5
Thats just how our corn head cuts it, not very well.. I will admit Gleaners corn heads aren't very good at cutting up stalks plus our snapping rollers aren't in the best shape, we ordered new ones for next year.
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Post by milesmaas on Nov 12, 2011 23:01:32 GMT -5
Why do you have 2 carts?
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Post by HuskerGLEANER on Nov 12, 2011 23:12:57 GMT -5
Good question. When we picked up farming my grandpa's place a few years back we also get to use his machinery for some of it. Basically we have two different farms 20 miles apart now so a cart stays at each one and saves roading the tractors so much. |
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Post by milesmaas on Nov 12, 2011 23:20:06 GMT -5
Good question. When we picked up farming my grandpa's place a few years back we also get to use his machinery for some of it. Basically we have two different farms 20 miles apart now so a cart stays at each one and saves roading the tractors so much. That would make life alot easier trying to do that |
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