Thanks for posting this video. They were pushing the conditions a bit, as it was pretty muddy that day, but those huge tires help keep them moving and harvesting. The operators seemed to know exactly what they were doing, probably from years of work together, which is always very satisfying to watch.
Brilliant as always, been a great series of vids of maize from you look forward to watching them. The two foragers together was certainly something new. 5*
To Panchdeburca I suppose if you always throw it over your left shoulder it comes hard to start thinking about the opposite! But you are not wrong - there are likely some other factors in the equation that we know nothing about.
Because if you wait at that time of year the ground just gets soggier! Anyway I made no claim to have anything to do with it other than film it. Not my ground, farm, machinery or anything else.
So much maize up this way. Couldnt believe it when I saw the surrounding fields, tall crp too. We have hardly any of the stuff down are way (pembrokeshire north county)
To MrSDSTRIKEBREAKER The Case came with a trailer (see earlier videos on this) but it came off when the Forage Harvester wanted to tow it behind for the headland run. It stayed off and Case was pusher for the rest of the field.
Thanks for that - but I wouldn't want you to run away with the idea that I'm the farmer. I'm just the photographer who's allowed in to film it. After this disaster here, he said this year "Don't come tomorrow, we will be on that sticky bit" So I didn't, of course! Perversly, of course, I understand that everything went wonderfully well that day!!
Well, there's plenty to go at! The early ones, in Scotland, had to be heavily compressed in order to upload them so they are not such good quality - but still interesting. . . . . . . Alan
It’s obviously a wet year and the corn is long past its prime for corn silage. You can chop corn in any direction, why not just stay on the high end of the field? Stay out of the standing water/ low end, either leave it there or come back after it freezes...
I always wondered why they didn't use the PTO to add drive to the wagons wheels, so instead of dragging them trough the mud, they'd add some pushing power. Heck, add some tracks there and you'd have huge soft ground capability if paired with a tracked tractor..
Sorry, Brian, you don't know the all the facts. You can't wait for it to dry in December - it doesn't dry. You have to get what you can while you can around here, whatever you do in your neck of the woods. Secondly, it has NOT killed the soil - it is now carrying a very nice crop of maize, best for years. I'll show you if I get the chance, next month. Thirdly, it is not my soil or my land or my tractors - I was just there to film it, and I'm very grateful that I was allowed to.
Ah! That happens in farming, as I know, so you have to harvest when "possible," which may include some glitches like getting stuck briefly and such. Good luck.
id argue with you there to be honest only reason the tm struggled was the tyres wernt to cleaver and the trailer always gets mud between the body and the wheel ;)
@MrSDSTRIKEBREAKER I'd say that the case is only there, to push the other out. As you see the Deere and the Holland wouldn't be able to make it without it