Combines Oz harvest rolling Victoria

[NDDan]

I was hoping you guys missed the 100year storm that hit Melbourne. Talked to John Ryan a few days ago and he is having a tough enough time with body and machine. Hopefully one of you crop producers will help convert the yield. You guys may just have something with the posifeed roller tention drum. If for nothing else I can see where it would reduce bulldozer affect of straw into rear tention drum. Keep us posted. Are the blade bars you talk about the ones that have super wide gap between rasps and stand another 1_4" or taller. Did you fasten one blade bar in position A (next to discharge)and a second in position B (next to concave)IJ Did you plug exposed holes in seperator grateIJ Might be spearing holes and mating on grate if not. Did you used to run with seperator grate covers beforeIJ I think they were invented down there and they helped up hear to reduce barley loss. They do two things: Number one bring cage closer to the cylinder bars and two support crop so it don't start to roll over cross bars. A Gleaner employee was out fighting a barley loss this summer in a very variable field this summer. The straw varied from green to bone dry. This was a R75 and after loading her up with reverse bars ect. he decided to go with all forward and then fasten in stationary rasp bar. His seperator grate would of been adjustable but I don't know if it was hi wide wire or not. likely not. He couldn't believe where the losses went threwout the whole field and why he seemed to gain power!! I thought you were going to get brave and stretch out distance between cross bars this year and maybe even build up some wires flush with cross bars. Good luck and let us know how you are doing.

 

[dakota]

Okay, that's 6.4mph in 42 bu_acre. By the way, Kansas is often nicknamed the land of OZ. So, I was confused, but only for a second. We had a guy from down under working for us this year. The most ambitious man I have ever experienced. Do you have any moreIJ

 

[John_W]

Dakota are you sure about those numbersIJ I get 10.4 km = 6.46 mph too, but for 3 tonnes_hectare of barley I get 56.7 bu_ac or 1.36 US tons_acre. That is based on 1 hectare= 2.47 acres, 1 metric tonne= 2240 pounds and standard barley weight of 48 lb_bushel.

 

[R_O_M]

One metric tonne equals 2204 pounds. One Imperial ton equals 2240 pounds. Australia uses the S.I. [ System International.} metric units of measurement.

 

[R_O_M]

One metric tonne equals 2204 pounds. One Imperial ton equals 2240 pounds. Australia uses the S.I. [ System International.} metric units of measurement.

 

[thud]

I always thought and Imperial ton was 2000lbsIJIJ or is there a US ton alsoIJIJ

 

[dakota]

I used the standard testweight for wheat - 60lbs_bushel. To be honest, I still don't know for sure how the different crops are figured in an American elevator. Isn't it silly that they weigh the trucks, get a number in lbs. and than have to figure it to bushels to pay the farmerIJ Some crop yields (canola, flax, etc.) is figured by the hundred weight. Than you go to the international board of trade and everything is figured in metric tons. This week I went to Texas, just to talk to a farmer who figures his wheat yield by the pound. hmm ...

 

[John_W]

A US ton is 2000 pounds. And Imperial ton, like used to be used in the UK and various other places like Canada and Australia, is 2240 and a metric tonne is 2204 pounds. A metric tonne is actually 1000 kilograms, which is also a megagram. Fun stuff.

 

[thud]

We've always used 2000pounds_ton here in Ontario. Hmm in fact we use a mixutre measures,, US gallons when spraying, litres when buying fuel, we drive in Km_hr but get MPG , I weigh myself in pounds but buy fertilizer by the Metric tonne,Im 6ft 5 inches tall and measure fields by the metre lOl.. go figure its no wonder I'm dazed and confused .

 

[Rolf]

G'Day guy's Wow!!! didn't think that my metric unit's would causes this much heart ache!!! were all metric here on our farm now, we seed_fertilizer in kg_Ha, spray in litres per hectare, and now after many years of harvesting in BAG's per acre!!!!! (three bushel's to a bag!!!) were now metric ton's per hectare!! Once your completely converted over to a metric system it's not that bad! it just takes time to get a reference of how much one it against the other. (metric as against imperial!!) It is a lot simpler to work things out with as most unit's of the metric system are multiples of 1000. But the biggest reason I use metric is because I get paid in metric ton's!!!!! Rolf PS: Played around with our sep grate again to try and lower rotor loss and have gone back to sep grate cage kit cover and are using four blade bar's on sep side of rotor, just started lentils and seem to have no rotor loss so to speak of! Yippheeeee.