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[Guest]

Back to rotor drive belts on the new series with mechanical reverser(driven hydraulically). Like a starter/ring gear configuration, but not engaging like a solenoid engaged starter. The two are on the same plain and are meshed when the driven gear is pulled to the other gear by a small hydraulic cylinder. Hope I never have to use it.

case really is ahead of them all in this respect , that cvt rotor drive is incredible and a real power saver
if only they woulda realized combines need straw choppers also plus a few other bone headed problems like concaves that won't do half the job of a jobber(madd) one

[highwayman]

Did a demo of new 50 series case and have to say it did a very impressive sample in durum and canola compared to our Deere’s. The on the go automation which includes automatic vane adjustments provides maximum capacity with excellent threshing and separation. Factory installed reddekop Mav choppers will provide excellent chop and spread. Only knocks were noisy feeder house which can be rectified with silencer kit and no factory installed shared mapping and connection between combines.

[woodland]

Especially when the harvest window is closing.....which it is.

Harvest weather is now too valuable to waste time.

I woulď do some soul searching after this harvest, if I had one.
This has been the most difficult harvest in my farming career, even harder than trying to keep two used 850 Masseys in the field when I was younger. Why anyone would voluntarily do this for a living baffles me some days. It's probably always been this way but the amount of capital at risk is staggering and the mental anguish and stress immeasurable. My veneer of serenity is wearing thin, it's not pretty what's under the surface.

We are making progress but would like to string more than a couple of days together. Canola done, mustard done, some swathed wheat left(yikes). Doing flax yesterday, things going well until flax was wrapping around the MacDon flex d****r auger. Happening too much so dropped that header and put on the pick-up header and swathed ahead of the combine....poor Iron Maiden was rumbling too much....we quit instead of wrecking something, at least we tried.....crop had frost crystals on it. I wish the grain graders and buyers could experience this, maybe they would understand the cynicism!

A friend of mine had his brother-in-law tell him winter time was for healing farmers.... but this harvest will leave a scar.

Just like here where as soon as things start going “better” Ma Nature steps up to the plate and reminds you who gets the last kick at the can by turning everything back to mud again. The only reassuring thing is you’re not alone. Peas are still out around here and neighbors who straight cut canola after applying “harvest management” their fields are turning more and more green from multiple growths that keep coming. Under half done in this area and doubtful we’ll all get done which we should be getting used to since 2015 was the last time when everyone finished.

I’m not wishing for things to be “easy” but do they have to be so achingly difficult for so long?

Good luck everyone and be safe. Had two family friends fall from some scaffolding while working on their shop and both spent the night in the hospital. They just got released and one has a concussion and a skull fracture but should recover.

Be careful out there.