These heads are awesome. Really speeds up harvest. First one i ever saw here NC was a older agco 6000 on a gleaner. Ive seen them harvest wheat, oats, rye, and even milo before a hurricane. Nice video as always btp!!🚜
I'm very impressed B.T.P.,the shelbourne stripper head is the way to go,it uses less hp.,processes more product,makes a much wider cut then any conventional bine head,plus run at dramatically higher ground speeds,it's the only way to go.
I never saw this type of grain harvesting using a vacuum to extract the wheat kernel. It makes sense and less horse power is needed. Thank's for showing the shelbourne. 🚜👍
Guys, they're running the draper so low & slow for a reason - like BTP mentioned in the video, a LOT of the crop was fallen, and they actually want to harvest as much of it as they can, not leave it in the field. Drop that draper on the ground, shave the field, and trade time and fuel for a greater yield. At the end of the day, it's all about actually harvesting the grain after all, no matter what compromises need to be made to do so. Another great vid as usual, those stripper heads are impressive pieces of engineering!
We have ran those same headers before in wheat. You can travel pretty fast with them . We ran them on 2 9870sts combines we were going 5 mph in 120 bushel wheat fine with no grain loss . We still have the heads we use them when we custom harvest wheat and oats. We tend to use our draper heads as the tall stubble is difficult to plant through in our area . We found that in dry years cutting the wheat low helps the double crops emerge faster . Those striper heads work great if you want to harvest fast and save fuel and they reduce grain loss. The down fall is that you can run wider with a regular head .
I liked that Gleaner that you showed across the road from the field you were in. The silver combines have always been a favorite of mine going back to the late 1950s when I was on the farm as a teenager. I hope that you get the chance to film one, old or new.
There is a video on youtube called -- Kalcevic farms harvest 2018 with Walters Harvesting from Canada -- there 10 case 8240's with shelbournes harvesting and 4 s680's, now thats some fast harvesting.
The shelbourne header is great. The combine is threshing under ideal conditions by running the grain heads only. Less fuel, internal wear, and seves can carry the load perfectly
They were especially popular in the UK 25 years ago when there was a subsidy on growing Linseed as that stuff is soooo tough to cut with a conventional knife header and ripens late in the season when dry days are hard to come by and the stalks are even tougher when damp.
This is a fantastically interesting video, I have never seen a double crop done like this, it's amazing. Blue header on a JD triggers my OCD a bit though. Just to add I never realised the UK plant is just down the road from me and I never knew.
Just when I had a few questions about the speed and the conditions required for that special head, cue BTP to come at the right time during the video to answer them. Thank you.
We grow ancient grain varieties, very tall wheat, 2/3 of it falls over. Illinois is not wheat country, we’re a bit humid for it. We swath what is most susceptible to sprouting in the field, and stripper head a lot also. We do some conventional harvest if we can and recover a yellow pea crop we plant in to the wheat when the ground is semi frozen. It’s a great protein booster for our feed customers who want a soy free product. If we can’t get it, that’s fine, it’s all going to a dense warm season cover crop for cow chow and will blend in to the mix just fine What a stripper is really good for is harvesting cover crop seed over an active soybean crop. We’re able to save $500k in cover crop seed. If it doesn’t pass germination standards it gets worked in to feed ration mixes. That’s why I have a ton of small bins, to keep the crop from different fields separate, until I know what we achieved.
There's nothing wrong with leaving a 6-8 inch stand of stubble, therefore, allowing the machine to harvest at a optimum energy and put more in the bin. Also, the machine will be able to increase ground speed. It's all good; great conversation platform
It would be interesting to see what the tons/hr of grain for the two were, as well as tons/gallon of diesel fuel consumed for both, assuming the farmer would be willing to divulge this sort of information.
It would. Great question. I wish I had asked while filming. I would say by observation the Shelbourne is going to win hands down. I will try to ask in the future.
Ran one of these shelbourne fronts against a 40ft draper front on a case 8120. Able to go 2-4km faster with the stripper, fuel was down I think 15-20% and tonnage was up was up around 60-70tonne an HR. With the draper the 8120 was running at 105-110% HP and with the stripper it was 70-80%.
@@Lordy29 There is so much less stuff for combine to process, so it will always be easier, faster and efficient to harvest. THe only thing that I would be worried about is if there are grain losses in a header, how it performs in very low laying crop and in field that is not that dense.
@@Lordy29 Wow, those are incredibly impressive numbers! If these header companies could get this sort of information out to farmers growing small grains and maybe a field test, I would imagine that they could really earn some converts!
My neighbor bought one for flax. He said it really worked well as flax straw is a mess to get rid of, so the stalk stays standing breaking down over the next season without needing to burn piles of chaff straw.
Awesome video! Don’t see many stripper headers like that, looks like it does a awesome job! Those double crops is so strange for me! Don’t see that here in Southern Manitoba!
I have never heard of a stripper head. Great video! Only problem is you can’t harvest beans I assume. Looks like that reel header was cutting a bit lower than what I remember. I think our stubble was up about mid shin.
Have you videoed an "air reel"? Tubes with air blowing the grain stalks into the cutterbar/auger/conveyor belt. Sheesh, we thought it peaked in 1990 with 36 foot Mak-Don headers..
Yall lucky out there, here in ohio I still got 800 acres of corn and 1000 acres of beans to plant. Been raining a lot here, it don't work out to good when you can only plant 1 day a week.
Is there any way to measure waste per acre with Shelbourne header as opposed to the conventional sickle/thresher. If there is less lost grain in the combining with the Shelbourne it has to be the preferred platform in overall productivity, stem to grainery. Thanks for the video. I really enjoy them.
That is one amazing header just with the speed alone would be totally worth the cost of that because of all the fuel savings plus you can have the benefit of harvesting all straw to and I can’t help I think harvesting that way that’s got to make that the combine last a lot longer than having to Process the whole plan I can’t believe I don’t see more of those around it just seems to make sense for small grain
There benefits in having what I would a close front or header compare to open front like draper. But travelling slow is put hours on combine but reduce trashing wear on rotor. Pa like his MF 3342 SP combine with 18ft close front, but operating in down wheat crop is tricky with no lifters it takes a lot of concentration to harvest. Interesting total cost factor of which header do choose to do harvest.
I would also like to tell you about the Sunbelt Ag Expo In Moultrie,Georgia. I think it’s in mid October if you don’t have any plans you should check it out! My Grandpa took me my brother every year. It’s a huge event.
Love this video. Lots of shellbournes in our area. Did the Garnett farm that you always film at do any harvesting yet,Unless you have just not finished editing the videos.
Yes and no. I got some from a distance. I do not know the farmer and he parked before I finished filming the 9670s. I have never seen a Deutz-Allis painted this way but it looks factory. It was too cool not to slip in the video.
here some old pic's of our Gleaner's i.imgur.com/rl3etGG.jpg i.imgur.com/0QqYrqV.png i.imgur.com/PD2X0rF.png sadly the little old L2 is out of action we snapped an arm on the straw walker where still trying to find parts but there hard to come by these days but our R-62 is still going but her age is starting to show.
Saw a field stripped like that yesterday. I wondered how a combine did it leaving the stalks of straw so long and still standing. Now I know how it was done.
The farm in this video has a 25ft Gleaner stripper head. Before MacDon entered the area in 2003 our local AGCO dealer put allot of Massey and a Gleaner stripper heads on green combines for wheat season. Do you run a Massey combine?
bigtractorpower I remember last year when we got it ready for harvest I looked at the serial number (pretty much for no reason, but that's besides the point.) The model number was 6022. 22 foot header, almost half the size of the conventional headers we use (John Deere 640 FD).
So you can harvest earlier when the stalks are still green. Does that mean you can avoid needing to put glyphosate on the mature crop to keep it from germinating in the field? That'd be a huge money saver if so.
Did thy Gleaner have tracks? Let see a video of that baby. Great video I love seeing these heads in action and thank you for being so informative. We are planting corn today in south west Missouri.
Andy Marshall I first saw it at the end of the video then had to go back and watch it when they were passing each other again but never could see the bottom of them. Is there many Mennonites is that past of the country?
I don't think I could ever run a stripper head just because they take so much of a fun out of watching the gears in the real move that they would just make driving the combine feel too much like pushing a vacuum.
Neat piece of equipment, Jason. Like you said early in the video, it functions like a giant agitator head for a vacuum cleaner. Does it take more or less horsepower to run this kind of head, and is there more or less crop loss? Good bit of history on display here.
Matthew Hoag takes way less horsepower. And as far as crop loss goes, you can usually have less than a regular setup, but you need to stay on top of your settings. Header rotor speed needs to change regularly, as well as sieves and fan speeds. So as long as there’s someone in the cab that can do more than push autosteer it’s a sweet deal.
how do they set up the depth of the stripper head ? because the weels on the stripper head can move in depth due to the feathers , or do they just playing in height with the head by hand ?
Must be difficult to see where you allready harvested or not, when you harvest at night and no gps. Does iT work in Canola, Maybe better for preventing grain loss than an extensions?
The only downside is they do not harvest soybeans. If you raise soybeans it requires the invest in a second header to cut beans in the fall. The big advantage to a Shelbourne is it lets you start a week to 10 days earlier in green stems, run earlier in the day and later at night and run faster putting less material through the combine.
BTP, Aren't soybeans harvested close to the ground? Seems to me that the second harvester pass that year would be ingesting not only the entire soybean plant, but all of the wheat straw as well.
The machine with the conventional header needs to raise the header 6 inches and he would be able to increase speed. When cutting that length of straw it loads the machine to capacity and there processing straw and the grain will have greater chance of going out the walkers.
These heads are awesome. Really speeds up harvest. First one i ever saw here NC was a older agco 6000 on a gleaner. Ive seen them harvest wheat, oats, rye, and even milo before a hurricane. Nice video as always btp!!🚜
I love that header; perfect thought and design.
The shelbourne header will pay for itself many times over for this combine owner.
used 20 ft 20 yrs ago in bootheel of Missouri with 9600 deere. worked great
Glad to see there is cab wheat just like cab corn and soybeans!! Interesting tool thanks for the video!!!
Lee Steele yes I hate cab wheat
I can not recall that I ever seen a stripper head before, that seems to work well, thanks for the video
I'm very impressed B.T.P.,the shelbourne stripper head is the way to go,it uses less hp.,processes more product,makes a much wider cut then any conventional bine head,plus run at dramatically higher ground speeds,it's the only way to go.
I never saw this type of grain harvesting using a vacuum to extract the wheat kernel. It makes sense and less horse power is needed. Thank's for showing the shelbourne. 🚜👍
Guys, they're running the draper so low & slow for a reason - like BTP mentioned in the video, a LOT of the crop was fallen, and they actually want to harvest as much of it as they can, not leave it in the field. Drop that draper on the ground, shave the field, and trade time and fuel for a greater yield. At the end of the day, it's all about actually harvesting the grain after all, no matter what compromises need to be made to do so.
Another great vid as usual, those stripper heads are impressive pieces of engineering!
Never seen this type od header. Amazing. Thanks BTP! :)
That first minute 25 was unnerving not having you talk to intro. And then ... you talked, Thank God !
We have ran those same headers before in wheat. You can travel pretty fast with them . We ran them on 2 9870sts combines we were going 5 mph in 120 bushel wheat fine with no grain loss . We still have the heads we use them when we custom harvest wheat and oats. We tend to use our draper heads as the tall stubble is difficult to plant through in our area . We found that in dry years cutting the wheat low helps the double crops emerge faster . Those striper heads work great if you want to harvest fast and save fuel and they reduce grain loss. The down fall is that you can run wider with a regular head .
I liked that Gleaner that you showed across the road from the field you were in. The silver combines have always been a favorite of mine going back to the late 1950s when I was on the farm as a teenager. I hope that you get the chance to film one, old or new.
Thanks again, BTP. The stripper head looks like a fine invention, but I would've thought the tall wheat straw would hinder the young beans.
Thank you for watching. The tall straw helps the soybeans. It is a good system.
It always amazes me watching those grain stripper heads! Great Video BTP! (as usual)
There is a video on youtube called -- Kalcevic farms harvest 2018 with Walters Harvesting from Canada -- there 10 case 8240's with shelbournes harvesting and 4 s680's, now thats some fast harvesting.
Holy crap. Sounds like one pass harvesting.
Never seen a header that only picks up the grain part, Looks pritty cool
We use these in the rice I’ll try to get video this harvest season. Good work BTP as always
The shelbourne header is great. The combine is threshing under ideal conditions by running the grain heads only. Less fuel, internal wear, and seves can carry the load perfectly
I love your videos and information you give about the equipment.
Thank you for watching. 👍😁
Lots of down wheat.thanks for the explanation. Bet the birds have a ball in the harvested wheat.
I never saw a header like that before thanks alot for the good video. Sam
They were especially popular in the UK 25 years ago when there was a subsidy on growing Linseed as that stuff is soooo tough to cut with a conventional knife header and ripens late in the season when dry days are hard to come by and the stalks are even tougher when damp.
This is a fantastically interesting video, I have never seen a double crop done like this, it's amazing. Blue header on a JD triggers my OCD a bit though. Just to add I never realised the UK plant is just down the road from me and I never knew.
Thank you for watching. This system works well for soybeans. Hopefully I can show soybean harvest in the fall. .
Just when I had a few questions about the speed and the conditions required for that special head, cue BTP to come at the right time during the video to answer them. Thank you.
Thank you for watching. I am glad you liked the info. Thank you for your kind words.
Great video. It would be awesome if you did a video on that R50 across the street that was combining wheat. Keep up the good work!
When I first read the title, I thaught to myself: I could vaccum my house in seconds holh crap!
Lol great vid
I would say this would take care of a carpet in seconds.
@@bigtractorpower Imagine getting it up and down the stairs though
Wow! These headers are so cool
We grow ancient grain varieties, very tall wheat, 2/3 of it falls over. Illinois is not wheat country, we’re a bit humid for it. We swath what is most susceptible to sprouting in the field, and stripper head a lot also. We do some conventional harvest if we can and recover a yellow pea crop we plant in to the wheat when the ground is semi frozen. It’s a great protein booster for our feed customers who want a soy free product. If we can’t get it, that’s fine, it’s all going to a dense warm season cover crop for cow chow and will blend in to the mix just fine
What a stripper is really good for is harvesting cover crop seed over an active soybean crop. We’re able to save $500k in cover crop seed. If it doesn’t pass germination standards it gets worked in to feed ration mixes. That’s why I have a ton of small bins, to keep the crop from different fields separate, until I know what we achieved.
There's nothing wrong with leaving a 6-8 inch stand of stubble, therefore, allowing the machine to harvest at a optimum energy and put more in the bin. Also, the machine will be able to increase ground speed.
It's all good; great conversation platform
BTP video on my birthday sweet.
Happy Birthday.
Never seen such a heads. Looks interesting.
First time I've ever seen one. Cool bit of kit. 👍🏻
Best combines made to date! Wish Dere would have stuck with the 9670 series
On this channel you can always learn something new! Thank you, BTP!
Thanks for sharing. I've never seen or heard of these before. Great to see new things. (new for me anyway)
They are great wheat harvesting machine. They are also good for rice.
It would be interesting to see what the tons/hr of grain for the two were, as well as tons/gallon of diesel fuel consumed for both, assuming the farmer would be willing to divulge this sort of information.
It would. Great question. I wish I had asked while filming. I would say by observation the Shelbourne is going to win hands down. I will try to ask in the future.
Ran one of these shelbourne fronts against a 40ft draper front on a case 8120. Able to go 2-4km faster with the stripper, fuel was down I think 15-20% and tonnage was up was up around 60-70tonne an HR. With the draper the 8120 was running at 105-110% HP and with the stripper it was 70-80%.
@@Lordy29 There is so much less stuff for combine to process, so it will always be easier, faster and efficient to harvest. THe only thing that I would be worried about is if there are grain losses in a header, how it performs in very low laying crop and in field that is not that dense.
@@Lordy29 Wow, those are incredibly impressive numbers! If these header companies could get this sort of information out to farmers growing small grains and maybe a field test, I would imagine that they could really earn some converts!
I would imagine they would get quite a clean grain sample, with not having as much going through the combine.
My neighbor bought one for flax. He said it really worked well as flax straw is a mess to get rid of, so the stalk stays standing breaking down over the next season without needing to burn piles of chaff straw.
Very cool. I have a friend who raises flax. He takes and piles it to burn it. This sounds like a much better option.
Good video, you should do a video on Tobacco farming. Thanks for sharing
Pretty cool, amazing how well that head picks up downed wheat
Impresive!!! Never knew those headers existed. Interesting, but OLF would be out of business soon 😅😅
There's a couple guys around us that swath the straw stubble after a stripper head goes across it to make some beautiful straw bales
@@danielboyd5455 Thanks for the reply
very good video - i like when you give spec on the equipment with the original list prices -especially the old classic tractor qnd planters
The old headers in Australia used to have Stripper fronts like the PTO pull type 710 and 726 International combines
I've always wanted to see one of these heads
Awesome video! Don’t see many stripper headers like that, looks like it does a awesome job! Those double crops is so strange for me! Don’t see that here in Southern Manitoba!
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I have never heard of a stripper head. Great video! Only problem is you can’t harvest beans I assume. Looks like that reel header was cutting a bit lower than what I remember. I think our stubble was up about mid shin.
Harvest? In Michigan were not even half done planting
Same here in Western New York. To much rain.
@@joemeehan5185 yeah we've never not been done by the time I'm out of school. It's really bad this year
How many acres do you guys farm? Any cows?
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ALRIGHTY!!!!
cab wheat 👍👍😬😬🚜
Very nice videos
Have you videoed an "air reel"? Tubes with air blowing the grain stalks into the cutterbar/auger/conveyor belt. Sheesh, we thought it peaked in 1990 with 36 foot Mak-Don headers..
Mean while here in Minnesota, we are just finishing our planting
Yall lucky out there, here in ohio I still got 800 acres of corn and 1000 acres of beans to plant. Been raining a lot here, it don't work out to good when you can only plant 1 day a week.
@@billcarver6539 where you at in Ohio? I'm in Wyandot county. There are some guys that have no corn in here
@@johndeereman3363 Im in clark and greene county.
Is there any way to measure waste per acre with Shelbourne header as opposed to the conventional sickle/thresher. If there is less lost grain in the combining with the Shelbourne it has to be the preferred platform in overall productivity, stem to grainery. Thanks for the video. I really enjoy them.
Best channel on youtube :)
It is nice to see some 70 series combines.
👍👍. The 9770STS is one of my favorite combines.
bigtractorpower we have two of them, and we have a 9870
That is awesome!!
Thank you for watching.
Ears just emerging in wheat in northeast England 🏴 2 month off harvest this side of the pond 😂
Sounds great and looks great, it leaves the straw like the old closed front Australian headers of years ago, just why hasn’t everyone got one?
Good video
Thank you for watching.
Hello, how are you today? I can’t believe you guys are on the wheat already
Doing well. The wheat is healthy this year. It looks like we may get some heavy rain in the next few days so hopefully the crop stands up to it.
That is one amazing header just with the speed alone would be totally worth the cost of that because of all the fuel savings plus you can have the benefit of harvesting all straw to and I can’t help I think harvesting that way that’s got to make that the combine last a lot longer than having to Process the whole plan I can’t believe I don’t see more of those around it just seems to make sense for small grain
They just get bigger and bigger 👍
He rode so fast that he did not cut the grain
lol
Awesome video Jason 🚜👍
Thank you for watching.
@@bigtractorpower your welcome
There benefits in having what I would a close front or header compare to open front like draper. But travelling slow is put hours on combine but reduce trashing wear on rotor. Pa like his MF 3342 SP combine with 18ft close front, but operating in down wheat crop is tricky with no lifters it takes a lot of concentration to harvest. Interesting total cost factor of which header do choose to do harvest.
I would also like to tell you about the Sunbelt Ag Expo In Moultrie,Georgia. I think it’s in mid October if you don’t have any plans you should check it out! My Grandpa took me my brother every year. It’s a huge event.
Love this video. Lots of shellbournes in our area. Did the Garnett farm that you always film at do any harvesting yet,Unless you have just not finished editing the videos.
Tres belle video
I hope you got more footage on that Gleaner.
Yes and no. I got some from a distance. I do not know the farmer and he parked before I finished filming the 9670s. I have never seen a Deutz-Allis painted this way but it looks factory. It was too cool not to slip in the video.
here some old pic's of our Gleaner's
i.imgur.com/rl3etGG.jpg
i.imgur.com/0QqYrqV.png
i.imgur.com/PD2X0rF.png
sadly the little old L2 is out of action we snapped an arm on the straw walker where still trying to find parts but there hard to come by these days but our R-62 is still going but her age is starting to show.
I hope we get a lot more wheat harvest period!
Saw a field stripped like that yesterday. I wondered how a combine did it leaving the stalks of straw so long and still standing. Now I know how it was done.
We don't have a Shelbourne stripper but we do have a Massey Ferguson 6000. They are interesting headers.
The farm in this video has a 25ft Gleaner stripper head. Before MacDon entered the area in 2003 our local AGCO dealer put allot of Massey and a Gleaner stripper heads on green combines for wheat season. Do you run a Massey combine?
bigtractorpower we run a John Deere on it. I don't really know if the header is a Massey, I'll have to double-check.
bigtractorpower I remember last year when we got it ready for harvest I looked at the serial number (pretty much for no reason, but that's besides the point.) The model number was 6022.
22 foot header, almost half the size of the conventional headers we use (John Deere 640 FD).
So you can harvest earlier when the stalks are still green. Does that mean you can avoid needing to put glyphosate on the mature crop to keep it from germinating in the field? That'd be a huge money saver if so.
Did thy Gleaner have tracks? Let see a video of that baby. Great video I love seeing these heads in action and thank you for being so informative. We are planting corn today in south west Missouri.
No, it looks like it's a mennonite combine on steel wheels. Hood eye though I missed it the first time
Andy Marshall I first saw it at the end of the video then had to go back and watch it when they were passing each other again but never could see the bottom of them. Is there many Mennonites is that past of the country?
@@Samschannel-xi2ev I'm not really sure, I live in Oklahoma and it seems there's just random pockets of them everywhere
@@Samschannel-xi2ev if this is the area I think it is in Kentucky yes a lot
I don't think I could ever run a stripper head just because they take so much of a fun out of watching the gears in the real move that they would just make driving the combine feel too much like pushing a vacuum.
Old school here as well. I need to see that reel a rotating!!!!
Do you get a cleaner end product because the stalk is left standing?
Yes-Sir, I'm waiting for my Loaf of Bread guys , good Job .
We plant wheat/rye as a cover crop, for rotation and state law compliance. Would RMA/NRCS/FSA still consider it as "cover" if harvested this way? 🤔
Very fascinating. Thanks for sharing! :)
Thank you for watching.
Great video!
Neat piece of equipment, Jason. Like you said early in the video, it functions like a giant agitator head for a vacuum cleaner. Does it take more or less horsepower to run this kind of head, and is there more or less crop loss? Good bit of history on display here.
Matthew Hoag takes way less horsepower. And as far as crop loss goes, you can usually have less than a regular setup, but you need to stay on top of your settings. Header rotor speed needs to change regularly, as well as sieves and fan speeds. So as long as there’s someone in the cab that can do more than push autosteer it’s a sweet deal.
@@Midwest4x4f150 Good to know. Thank you.
Great Video
what varity of wheat is ready to cut !?? first of june ??
Cab crops are getting more and more common these days.
I want this.
Wow amazing
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I’ve carried these heads already..
Nice video 👍
Thank you for watching.
@Googly Pops depends on the combine and what ground radar system you use.
Amazing
how do they set up the depth of the stripper head ? because the weels on the stripper head can move in depth due to the feathers , or do they just playing in height with the head by hand ?
I wonder how much that header weighs? The hydraulic cylinders on the combine that lift it must be large.
Is it hard to tell what has been harvested and what has not been harvested with the Shelbourne header?
No you'll have low stubborn with a draper head and most of the plant standing from a stripper head
We have tried one of these. Leaves way to much. Shatters a lot on the ground.
Must be difficult to see where you allready harvested or not, when you harvest at night and no gps.
Does iT work in Canola, Maybe better for preventing grain loss than an extensions?
You can see good and I have no idea on the canola but they do make a header for canola
Have you thought about meeting up with Onelonelyfarmer down in North Carolina?
BTP, can’t this header be used with the newer model of John Deere combines?
Yes it can. I have filmed this same header on an S690 John Deere combine.
I’m more interested in the Gleaner R50.
What are the downsights of those headers ? Why are they not more Common?
The only downside is they do not harvest soybeans. If you raise soybeans it requires the invest in a second header to cut beans in the fall. The big advantage to a Shelbourne is it lets you start a week to 10 days earlier in green stems, run earlier in the day and later at night and run faster putting less material through the combine.
BTP, Aren't soybeans harvested close to the ground? Seems to me that the second harvester pass that year would be ingesting not only the entire soybean plant, but all of the wheat straw as well.
@@tomheringer2047 most of the wheat straw has already rotted by the time beans are ready
I am assuming it lowers maintenance on the combine? Less material through, and less run time.
👍👍 yes.
You should call olf and see if hell do a collab
The machine with the conventional header needs to raise the header 6 inches and he would be able to increase speed.
When cutting that length of straw it loads the machine to capacity and there processing straw and the grain will have greater chance of going out the walkers.
My neighbor does the same thing every year. Causes a lot of grain loss running that much through the combine.
yeah we only cut that low when dropping straw.
Pretty sure they're only doing that to capture the fallen plant