bluegreen Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 All quiet here in the fens, two weeks time for some rapeseed crops I suspect.................hoping I might get a glimpse of one of the snazzy new New Holland CRs this harvest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcy_p Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 Not strictly a 'spot' but saw a lorry load of freshly baled straw on the back of a lorry on the A10 near Hertford so suggests the lighter lands around Cambridge might have Barley harvest underway. Everything seems esrly this year...some of the osr locally looks only a week away. Ol, are we having a map this year again..... please!?!? /malc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Just seen the 1st lot of widowed OSR on the 1st farm out of me town here at Goole , ( no pics as yet ) they grow all there crops for seed , then some barley at the local Co - op farm ( 1st )thats just turning ; the last pics are from up near Thixendale . N Yorks barley again , very large amount of barley up there this year grown on a lot on one of the big farm estates that have loads of land in that area , Dave ( click , click ) will know of it im sure as he know s that area very well , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 I know that area a bit Jon, walked that path a few times, very nice part of the world up there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 We started combining barley this afternoon, only a high yielding 6 row variety is grown as all grain is kept on the farm for feeding the pigs. I'll not be having much involvement with harvest as I'm on the hedge cutting side of the business but will try to get some pictures as and when I can. Combine is a new to us 2008 John Deere W540 which replaced a 1075. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Hi JD 6910 A very nice part of Yorkshire silly as this sounds i ve not seen that many combines up there over the years - trouble is there never near the road side when i do see 1 , ha ha! , i was chatting to 2 farm workers pulling wild oats & thay did have a little smile at me a little ,as its flat land here where we are & they dont have any flat fields up there way These pic are a little of line but kind of fit with harvest , well me thinks so Pic 1 - well cattle are a different kind of harvest ( meat ) Pic 2 - is a quite place to eat youre dinner in bewteen looking for tractors & combines Pic 3 - there lots areas set aset for the Bees , No Bees no harvest if you get me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Hi JD 6910 A very nice part of Yorkshire silly as this sounds i ve not seen that many combines up there over the years - trouble is there never near the road side when i do see 1 , ha ha! , i was chatting to 2 farm workers pulling wild oats & thay did have a little smile at me a little ,as its flat land here where we are & they dont have any flat fields up there way These pic are a little of line but kind of fit with harvest , well me thinks so Pic 1 - well cattle are a different kind of harvest ( meat ) Pic 2 - is a quite place to eat youre dinner in bewteen looking for tractors & combines Pic 3 - there lots areas set aset for the Bees , No Bees no harvest if you get me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Some fields of barley have been cut not far away from my place down here in suffolk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 We started combining barley this afternoon, only a high yielding 6 row variety is grown as all grain is kept on the farm for feeding the pigs. I'll not be having much involvement with harvest as I'm on the hedge cutting side of the business but will try to get some pictures as and when I can. Combine is a new to us 2008 John Deere W540 which replaced a 1075. How are you liking your new job Gav? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 It's good thanks Niels, bit of variety at the moment, was cutting a hedge at a high school this morning followed by field entrances on a pig unit this afternoon, looking like I'm probably off to Newmarket tomorrow or next week at the moment too so making things interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrol Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Ol, are we having a map this year again..... please!?!? /malc. Will see what I can do. Any suggestions for improvements this year ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcy_p Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 Will see what I can do. Any suggestions for improvements this year ? No changes necessary really... seemed to work quite well I thought! /m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Nothing in front of your lense yet Malc? I know they are out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 some really horrible blackgrass infestations in some fields around here that belong to the big boys with sophisticated machinery and expensive chemicals................worst Ive seen it Id say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcy_p Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 Nothing in front of your lense yet Malc? I know they are out there! Well, harvest kicked off for us the east Suffolk this evening! Here are a few efforts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcy_p Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 Some efforts with my home-made camera pole! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcy_p Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 Last ones for now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Plenty of TM's working in England still, they must have sold well there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Nice shots Malc, I won't comment on your pole ;-). Any idea of yield and moisture content? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 sizewell way eh malc?? some nice shots there, and clever idea with the pole, mind you how long are your arms to press the shutter :laugh: or is the other half clinging on for dear life up there :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcy_p Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 Sizewell indeed - well spotted! I've been contracting there since before Christmas in the IT team, it's a funky place to work. The camera pole is made from swaged ali tubes like the ones that hold the nets around garden trampolines... actually they are identical to the ones that hold the nets around garden trampolines! The sections are 1.7m long so fit in a car, and five sections gives an 8.5 elevation, which seems OK. Six sections is over 10m and rather wobbly and unwieldy. I use a Hahnel remote shutter release, cheesy demo video here but it gives a video feed from and control of the camera to a receiver on the ground. It seems to work quite well, and I aim to stay more than 8.5m away from anything important so that even if the pole falls over it won't hit a car, tractor or get swallowed by a combine... It's raining today, so no combine action in east Suffolk, tomorrow's forecast isn't looking much better... boo! /malc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 That looks a very nice bit of kit Malc. Certainly a lot cheaper than a drone. Friend of mine uses something very similar but doesn't have live view. He uses a retractable pole which is normally used for garden tools. Shame you have to buy an LCD screen with the Hahnel as an app on my iPhone would do just as well I think if you send the signal to bluetooth. Bingo, there is one! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eos-remote/id565839396?mt=8 I have an EOS 6D which has Wifi so can connect to my iPhone and shoot remotely. Best of all it's free! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Tight wad Neil's Can't be to far off this way now I suspect prob the rape as in the last two days several have cut the grass back round the headlands and a grain store I pass has been unlocked and they were servicing his fordson That's used to power his grain drier . Lot of people this way seem to have left a good two header widths of natural grass on the boundary a this year? Never noticed it like that before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcy_p Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 I got the Hahnel second hand from a friend for peanuts, and as my Canon does not have WIFI or BT the Hahnel does the job nicely! I did think about a drone, but the cost/hassle factors were too much. Also I don't know what farmers would think about a drone 'buzzing' their combine - also one strong gust of wind could send the drone and your camera crashing to a mechanised doom! So, will you knock up a pole yourself Niels?? /malc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weblet375 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 hi saw a nh cx8090 cutting barley at maldon essex.Also saw a case 9230 in some osr just outside chelsmford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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