Combines Wheat Harvest Progress

[Seen_the_Green_light]

I'm not a custom combiner but just a farmer from up here in ND just going to tell you all there are very few places in North Dakota that actually have decent crop most places are two wet_dry a few places have good crop but they are far and few between

 

[WFEOlI]

Interesting name. I too tried Oliver combines in their day and for a time, "saw the green light" and used them over the Gleaners. Wasn't long, though, and Gleaner lured me back to stay. Glad I did. Glad to hear of guys still running the green machines; they were tough to beat in their day. Sorry to hear about tough growing season up there. Have heard that South Dakota is even worse, at least western wheat country.

 

[goose]

Just cruising the web and saw some pictures of Fendt combines in Europe. I did not realize that Fendt sold combines in the North America.

 

[Silver_Bullet]

Wheat harvest is now in central South Dakota. As has been the case all the way from Texas, wheat is poor and there are a lot of abandoned acres. Yields have been running generally in the 15-20 bushel range.

 

[Inc]

We are north of Denver,CO. All wheat harvested at this time. Averaged anywhere from 10 to 30 bushell per acre. We used our recently purchased 80_81 (SN1547) N6, which did a very good job harvesting the wheat..very little wheat thrown over and clean grain in the bin, no major mechanical problems_interruptions. Our N6 has about 850 hr.s on the combine and 1400 on the engine. It has not been "slowed down", but we were able to run it at about 2500 to 2600 RPM, as opposed to the 2700 to 2800 RPM called for in the owners manual. The cylinder speed was around 900 RPM which worked OK for our wheat. Only "concern" is that the manual called for a concave_cylinder setting of around 5_8 in., but we had to set it at about 1_4 in. to thresh the wheat. We saw in other manuals (like that for a MF combine) where the clearance should be about 1_4 in. Don't understand this difference. Basically the combine is a pretty darn good machine, we are "nervous" about the engine and its rods and bearings due to the "high RPM" problem. Should be able to have some basic inspections done to determine the condition of the rods and bearings. We contacted a Gleaner dealer in Yuma,CO. They were not too convinced that slowing the engine down by recalibrating the injector pump and using a N5 drive pulley was that good of an approachIJIJIJ