Stuck with the swather 6 times today.

[farmaholic]

Well said Braveheart. Sounds like you made a good transition from Faint-of-Heart! LOL;-)

[crusher]

I get stressed too, wished I didn't but I do.

I always thought our swathers were pretty good mudders. Freewheat, perhaps you should look at upgrading the drive tires.

[biglentil]

Dropping air pressure to about 12psi may help

[biglentil]

or power your swath roller with a hydraulic motor 😂

[riders2010]

You have a bumper crop. You have high crap insurance. The world was great a month ago. Now your stressed. Try having shitty crap insurance and early drought and then actually more rain and wetter fields than your area has. I ve driven through that area. People here would love to have your problem. When we stated our situation you were giddy in love with Harper and told us to be frugal no worries. So what's changed.

But take it from someone that has had that situation several times. Your swathing and spinning differnt speed so unless you have variable reel speed your pounding the piss out of that ripe canola and dropping the swath in between ruts that are going to dry hard of which you will have to carry your pick up high and shell out even more.

Get in the phone to a custom harvester. Many guys are straight combining with very good results. You will save more than double the cost of custom from lack of shelling not to mention a transmission or hydro on your swather. In addition since you haven t experienced flooding and ruts yiur fields will be screwed for next year.
If the custom route fails you have crap insurance
Wish we had your problem.

[Braveheart]

Free what, don't listen to Riders, he's obviously nuts. You already straight cut so you don t need a custom harvester. But re your canola, I would advise persevering with the swather. If you don't have pod shatter resistant canola, it will be all shelled out unless it's really lodged.

Some of the guys from the Red River Valley experience this often. Perhaps they can offer some swather insight. My friends that farm at Dugald have your conditions 8 years out of 10.

[riders2010]

What do all the farm families that don't have a crop and poor crap insurance and no agristability. Tell their kids freesheep?

Just like tom when it didn't affect you life is good everyone else is a nuts but the second it affected you the world has to stand still.

It will depend how wet it really is if it's just pot holes then go around if it's end to end like it is here then.

This must be some other canola because last week it was flowering?

[hobbyfrmr]

This information may be too late but here goes:

http://www.omnitrac.com

My neighbor put mattracks.com on his 25 foot MacDon swather a few years back.

[freewheat]

Riders. What did I ever do to you? Wow.

To the sane responses: I have a custom swather guy willing to rent me his much better machine tomorrow, so I feel better some. Some days just kill you. Yesterday was that kind of day. Glad today has been better.

Thanks for the insights, I appreciate them.

[RTK]

Folks if you have nothing positive or helpful to post to guys on this forum that are looking for ideas/help or are stressed out then do not waste time adding to thier stress. I do not farm alone so I have partners to help spread the stress... I have nieghbors that do not have that option so guess what I listen to them and try to help them handle stress or offer an opinion if they are asking for one. Do I like taking time - not always but sometimes all they need is some reassurance.

[seabass]

Put on tracks. U can go anywhere. Not cheap but will get the job done and dry out the ground once its cut.

[Klause]

Free what do you have for a swather? Ours had the knife drive xrap out so ee got a 9430 out to finish. Wow what a nice machine compared to the 722 and goes through so much more wet.


Just heard on sask crop report Humboldt got the most rain of anywhere in Sask. 400 and some mils it ain't fun I realize there's a drought in the west side of thr province but slinging mud is no joy either. We seeded end to end and now are swathing around all the same potholes filled with dead canola.

[stonepicker]

Look at the bright side freewheat, at least you don't need to seek professional help, unlike riders 2010.

[bucket]

I am beginning to believe we are all nuts. Complete loons.

[Tucker]

Yeah Freewheat, I was wondering what swather gets stuck so easily. If you have something mid-90s with big flotation rubber I feel bad for your conditions. I have an older 30' MacDon with decent big rubber and it will go where the combines shouldn't follow. If you have an old Versatile 400 with those skinny little pizza-cutters I feel bad for you for a whole 'nother reason.