[AT] Harvest video

[Cecil Bearden]

Ralph
Last crop of Oats I cut for grain was in 1983.   I needed to cut my oats on 
a rented 40, but the neighbor needed 20ac of wheat cut.  I broke the machine 
clutch the morning I went to cut my oats and it took 3 days to get it fixed 
and parts for a 410 massey.  By that time this @#$%^&* Oklahoma wind had 
shelled them out.  I cut the place for hay the next year after the volunteer 
came up.   I am glad you guys brought up that memory.  I just finished 
planting 120 ac of oats and I had thought about harvesting them instead of 
hay..   NO WAY!!!!!!!!!

Cecil in OKla


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Harvest video


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Harvest video
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>
> Here you have to harvest oats like that to get ahead of the weeds.  I
> combined 220 acres of oats that a guy had cut and windrowed.  He cut
> them when it was wet and they stuck to the ground.,  I had a good pickup
> but the would shatter out when it went to pick them up.  It made 30
> bushel to the acre and he did not pay me because he thought there should
> be 60 bushel to the acre.  We went to court and the attorney lost my
> right to file a lien because he did not know about a combine & thrashers
> lien.  Attorney now is a state representative.  I worked 2 weeks on that
> one field and lost other work at harvest in addition to buying the
> combine to do that work...  that was the end of my custom harvesting days.
> That summer will always stick in my memory.
> Cecil in OKla
>
> Not a good memory for you Cecil. Oats harvest methods vary here and up til
> recently nobody considered straight cutting feasible as the oats would 
> shell
> out in the wind waiting for the whole field to ripen. Newer varieties seem 
> a
> little more resistant to shelling . I straight cut my last crop of oats 
> and
> it worked pretty well although there were still plenty of oats on the 
> ground
> in my opinion. But it saved the operation of swathing .
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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