Combined oats that are lodged from the hail and wind storm we had 2 days earlier.
Any estimate at what kind of loss you've experienced due to the storm? It looks like the machine cleaned it up pretty good.
The oats had very little if any loss. Wish I could say the same for the corn and beans.
My hats off to you. It can be a real pita when its down like that. Ive seen it so bad the wind knocked the field flat you could only combine it one way so you could get under neath it.
Thats is what it is normally like around here. :Banghead
We usually fitted lifters and harvested at right angles to the way the crop went down. Slow and painful, especially when you had weeds grow through the crop.
09 combining is finished on wednesday
yeah looks good. have you ever used an air reel? a real savior for downed beans. costly initial investment though.
btw, i am curious, as never seen beans here, do you harvest them with the same header as for cereals?
Yes for the most part. They used to make a row crop head (maybe they still do, IDK) for combing soybeans if you planted them in a row instead of drilling them. But I haven't seen one used in along time.
We have never had beans go down bad enough to need anything like that. Now the corn can be a different story.
Crete, where bouts in Eastern Iowa are you? Just across the river a ways here in SW Wisconsin. Looking at the same hail damage from PDC down through Platteville, to Just west of Belmont and Darlington, all the way down into Scales Mound Ill. I was not to far from our Cassville plant when the one storm came through in Iowa and NOAA was reporting tennis ball size hail. Talk to you later. Trbo
Dumb question... What is an air reel? How does it work?