Nice, this is a late view but need to ask, how do you deliver the canola, do you bale or load as is or dry and combine it further, hope you can explain, thanks
swathing is foreign to us in North Carolina unless you're doing hay. I can see why I think maybe because of the green still in the crop.How long will you let it dry before threshing? Also, does it matter if it rains on the crop once it is in a swath ?
Yes... canola will shatter when its ripe... even wind will shatter it out... so we cut it at about 40 percent ripe and it sits for about 2 weeks or more...and once canola is swathed... the more rain on it the better.
the crop looks real good. how much is canola going for these days? We used to straight cut that stuff, though I think that swathing would have helped. one time I had plugged the cylinder on my combine and spent some time cleaning it out. Then sat down to lunch. Grandpa shows up and says I will take it around. I said well be careful and don't plug it. He came back about 10 minutes later and plugged the whole machine from the cylinder back. the walkers were backed solid. what a job. Took a couple hours to dig out of that. Course he didn't help
It is great cause of the rain we have had.. but it doesnt want to stop...Canola is around 9 a bushel right now... its been going down because of the china issue. And with the plugged combine.. my neighbour once tried to cut out the plugged rear end of the combine with a powersaw lol
Back in the day, Chrysler made a Slant Six Industrial. The old FMC pea combines had the /6 in them. They were a good engine for the time.(40 years ago)
Im pretty sure that it is the industrial motor. The carb for it is specially made by john deere. Its a great Engine actually... Better then the Ford 6 cylinder that was in the old versatile swathers.
The swathers look like there in good shape yet. It is hard to understand why John Deere dont have parts , sell more swathers that way. I have never seen conola grow how does it bushel per acre? Is it a small seed , is it hard to set combine?
Oh.. Yea thats just a straight cut header you put on. You can do that for canola but 1. It shatters to much from the wind unless you seed the shatter resistant variety and 2. If it ever snows while its standing you can write it off.
Northern farmer ah cool ok. also, i saw a video from newzeland and they used the header you have but on what seemed to be grass or alfalfa, not sure on it but is that possible?
ya can't combine your barley? si u only gotta handle the material once? look at all that grain u lost swathing it, then bailing the windrows, but I never done barley before
Northern farmer don't know if you have fixed the carb or not but i did a quick search and they were a forktruck motor. You might ask good industrial equipment dealer about a carb. This should be pretty easy to find.
No roller? I'm surprised how well the old JD gets through the canola. I have a slightly newer 2360 (Macdon built) JD and have trouble with it plugging at the swath opening in a crop that heavy. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0melluGLrRA.html
I Think rollers make the swaths easier to blow away if it gets real windy... I have seen my neighbours rolled swaths take off like a big sheet of plywood... where mine just had a few spots roughed up. Our opening on that 2320 has been widened also.
