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silage harvestor chute position

  • 07-05-2013 4:12pm
    #1
    yellow50HX
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    was chatting to one of neighbous over the weekend, he had his trailed silage harvestor out and was getting it ready for the cutting season. I help him out from time to time and last year did soem of teh harvestign for him. I found having teh turn back to watch the harvestor and then turn my head around further to watch teh trailer very tiring and had a farily sore back and neck from it. when i mentione dit to him he said "ah sure you get used to it".

    So i suggested he should turn the chute the oppsite direction and drive the trailer on teh other side of the harvetor. You should be able the get the trailer closer to the harvestor and it would be closer to his line of sight for checking the harvestor. We reckon swapping the top side on the trailer would be the only difference.

    Does anyone do it this way?


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  • #2
    leg wax
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    one of the main reasons for not doing it is if you have a sleepy git drawing in they can cause a lot of damage to harvester on that side,mostly to the head of the harvester.


  • #3
    gk5000
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    leg wax wrote: »
    one of the main reasons for not doing it is if you have a sleepy git drawing in they can cause a lot of damage to harvester on that side,mostly to the head of the harvester.
    Yep, and should be upto the trailer guy to keep up and watch the chute etc.


  • #4
    iverjohnston
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    remember back in the mid 1980's, an early start one morning about 5.30. First load the lad on the tractor drawing managed to put his front wheel up onto the back rim of the tractor driving the harvester (a massey 2640) and cut the valve out of the rim. Finished fillingthat first load at about 11.30!


  • #5
    popa smurf
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    ha there were the days when trailers were starting to get big and the tractors were getting faster I was drawing with an out fit down in kanturk while on workplacement for green cert and a lad was driving a very fast leyland and he took an ESB pole out of it coming through the town one eve caused major problems for the natives that eve sure he was lucky he wasn't killed.


  • #6
    freedominacup
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    This is gonna turn into the thread for silage season war stories. We use to fill like that from time to time no real bother as long as every one ison their toes.


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  • #7
    yellow50HX
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    iverjohnston wrote: »
    remember back in the mid 1980's, an early start one morning about 5.30. First load the lad on the tractor drawing managed to put his front wheel up onto the back rim of the tractor driving the harvester (a massey 2640) and cut the valve out of the rim. Finished fillingthat first load at about 11.30!

    yeah that was what i was thinking too. i remember when we used to draw from a trailed harvestor the front wheel of the drawing tractor used to be almost right up against the back wheel of the one harvesting. Watched a few lads doing it on you tube and i have noticed that the trailed gets filled betteras your filling from the side like with a SP rather then from the front right.

    speaking about silage stories i remember i used to know what farm we were goign to by following the bits of trees that were left on the road after the trailers and harvestor.


  • #8
    popa smurf
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    Sorry for dragging tread off topic with regards the chute my guess is you point it at the direction of the trailer and you move it around until trailer is filled evenly at least that's the way we used to do it , is there another way.


  • #9
    vincenzolorenzo
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    Any time i drew it was up to me to keep the trailer filled evenly and the harvester man only took over near the end to get the last bit in.

    As for putting the chute out to the right I always thought the reason this wasn't done is that there would always be someone driving up on the swart.


  • #10
    grazeaway
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    vincenzolorenzo wrote: »
    Any time i drew it was up to me to keep the trailer filled evenly and the harvester man only took over near the end to get the last bit in.

    As for putting the chute out to the right I always thought the reason this wasn't done is that there would always be someone driving up on the swart.

    with the bigger mowers and swarthers nowadays there is a lot more room, enought to keep the harvesting tractor in between the rows.


  • #11
    vincenzolorenzo
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    With a 30 foot row then there would be plenty of room, but would be a bit tighter on a 20 foot. But yeah if they weren't up on the swart then having the chute out to the right would be easier on the driver alright.


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  • #12
    Tipp Man
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    vincenzolorenzo wrote: »
    With a 30 foot row then there would be plenty of room, but would be a bit tighter on a 20 foot. But yeah if they weren't up on the swart then having the chute out to the right would be easier on the driver alright.

    You'd want a fair tractor up front to be picking up 30ft swarts with a trailed harvester, in first cut anyway


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