[AT] For the steamer guys(now pto combine)

[John Hall]

Sounds like its as unpredictable where you are as I am.

Anybody up your way using those stripper type headers they came out with a 
few years back? They somehow just strip the heads leaving most of the straw 
standing. The idea has been around a while-- I took pictures of one at Mt 
Plesant---can't remember what it was mounted on but it may have been a 
Fordson.  I saw a modern one of those stripper headers about 7-8 years ago 
at a dealer in eastern NC. From what I read in magazines, they allow you to 
harvest 10-20 days earlier. I guess the benefit comes for those double 
cropping and using full till. I would imagine fuel consumption drops 
considerably.

Something else I saw recently was a type of harvester that harvested the 
heads and then delivered them to a staionary thresher. Can't rmember what 
the benefit was other thatn more improved threshing since the thresher 
wasn't bouncing around the field.

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] For the steamer guys(now pto combine)


> John Hall wrote:
>> I take it that the weather in your area is typically pretty dry during 
>> harvest time? We are normally dodging rain showers that time of year. 
>> Could rain on consecutive days, could be 3 weeks apart,normally we only 
>> get rain about once a week. Either last year or the year before it 
>> started raining with a lot of wheat still out in the field.
>
> Johm, how I wish that were true. But we are subject to the full array of 
> weather at harvest time. I've seen it almost too hot and dry so that the 
> straw wouldn't feed up the feeder house and the grain cracked. Conversely 
> I have seen it so tough and damp that straw wraps and plugs and the grain 
> is so tough that it stalls the unloading auger. Somewhere in between those 
> extremes is where we usually end up harvesting. In a good dry fall I've 
> seen harvest finish up early in september. But if weather does not 
> co-operate we can be held up for days, weeks on end until in desperation 
> we start harvesting tough or damp grain just to get it done before winter 
> sets in.
> Most years we will make good use of both AC and heater in the combine cabs 
> before harvest is over. On rare occasions even the windshield wiper.:-)
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>>
>
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