swathers

[FB]

would this be easy to make using either the forage harvester or forklift chassis with some wheel extensions and case combine head??

heres some more

http://www.masseyferguson.agcocorp.com/default.cfm?PID=1.7.80.2

if not, goodhead can u take this with you to your meeting?!

[JC]

It shouldn't be too difficult, the front off an old massey would probably be a cheaper alternative for donor parts though.

[FB]

yeah then reverse it?! 

[JC]

yeah then reverse it?!?

I meant for the head NUMPTY !!!

[FB]

okey dokey...thats another award for me to day...where shall i put it!

Not sure on the best way to raise the wheels though?

[ihatepoundland]

I can't see Britains making one of these for the UK, they are a bit rare.

I'm not getting much of a sense of scale from the pic, but i guess it is much larger than a forklift, nearer SP harvester size, although I have seen smaller ones. These would be idel with the forklift, as the mechanism to raise and lower the head is already in place.

I agree with FP, on using the massey head,  cheaper and narrower and on you being a numpty 

[the other green]

Part way between the two IHP, bigger than the forklift and not as big as a SP forage harvester.

[FB]

:) ...numpty list on the main page i think!!!...with the list of the top ten!!

[Tractorman810]

i have to say looks an interesting conversion,but have never seen one in the uk,are they a european thing? or state side

[JC]

I've seen the odd one around here (yorkshire) which are blue and white, they are comparable in size to the sanderson fork truck body wise, but with a different chassis obviously.

[NewHolland2]

The blue and white machines would be Shelbourne Reynolds machines. They are usually used to cut OSR before the combine and then a special header (the one Dave makes) is used to gather up the swathed OSR.

Cheers

NewHolland2

[new holland driver]

8i have seen lots of them hear to 10 to 12 diffrent machinse runing a round and what part of yorkshire do you live in just been up there for my holl rich

[ihatepoundland]

Why are they used? Is a different cutter needed of OSR or does it need to dry of something?

[NewHolland2]

Hi IHP. As far as I'm aware swathers are used to cut the OSR to let it dry (as opposed to chemical dessication) and the OSR (cos it has already been cut) can be harvested by combine much faster.

Hope this helps

Cheers

NewHolland2

[ihatepoundland]

thanks, that was what I was thinking

[NewHolland2]

No problem. Like to put my knowledge to use. There's nothing better than talking about farming and sharing your info with other like-minded folk. 

Cheers

NewHolland2

[new holland driver]

here you go another bit of knowledge for you, and anyone else who is interested. Never use a rower to help dry the rape, a man near us,? thought he was big and clever. last year he told me that he was going to do that, and said that he wanted to stand out and that he was surprised no one else had thought of it (the truth is we did but we knew what was going to happen, as we did not like him, we kept our mouths zipped!  ) He did stand out all right, as the man now could not wait a day to let the crop dry out. So he turned it but never got out to check the crop was ok and HAD shaked all the seed out.He did 20 acres or about that much before he checked it and when he did he had shaked all the seed out of every pod, all on to the floor!!. Out of the 200 acres he got 20 ton of rape so as we were combining away at our 20 ton an acre he was doing 1 ton to 10 acres . he stood out all right !!  :D

[JC]

20 tons of rape seed to an acre, that sounds very good to me j.d.mad, your soil must be more fertile than my wife!

[the other green]

:D :D

[ihatepoundland]

Do you only get 19 tons from her?

[JC]

Do you only get 19 tons from her?

No, but plenty of false alarms!

[ihatepoundland]

What you need is Metalert

[new holland driver]

no more like she needs al ot of tlc and the rape lots of muck and mixed in verey quickly o and that to gets a bit of tlc a well as the girl frend but in diffrent ways rich

[JC]

8i have seen lots of them hear to 10 to 12 diffrent machinse runing a round and what part of yorkshire do you live in just been up there for my holl rich

South Yorkshire j.d, between Sheffield and Barnsley.

[JC]

Right, I've made a start on the swather. Re-shaped the cab and removed the mudguards, fitted the front and rear axles and given it some primer. Personally I think it stands a bit high, what do you think?