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SW, Missouri | I was just curious if anyone on here harvested fescue seed and if so what combine do you run. I have kicked around the idea for a few years and I am curious what combine is better suited for fescue. Thanks |
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East Central Missouri | We tried combining fescue many years back...never again. Plugging a combine with fescue is one of my worst farming memories/fears... The price of the fescue is very appealing, but not worth the hassel here. In terms of combines the old Gleaners and pull types are about the best that I have heard. We tried with a 3300 Deere and also a 4420. Unloading out of the grain hopper is also "fun", keep an old broom handle handy for pushing the fescue down to the floor augers and remove all the shields in the hopper. Good luck
Louie |
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Centralia, MO | Years ago, my dad harvested some fescue with an old JD 95 combine. It took a little doing to get the fan slowed down enough but it seemed to work pretty well by my remembrance. Years later I tried to cut some with a JD6600 which was a disaster. I did get some harvested but then I plugged the shoe augers and I never thought I'd get them freed up. |
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| Gleaner f or k or 550 massey work good around here. Have a neighbor that uses a 1660 IH with good results. |
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East Central South Dakota | John Deere 9600 or 9610 is one one of the most popular in the major grass seed growing areas. Swath it then let it dry for 10 days and it'll combine just fine. Grew up running a 9600 doing tje very same thing |
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| Any combine that runs good and is in good mechanical condition. I assure you, the color makes no difference. It is all in the operator and his/her ability to make changes according to the need. |
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Elizabethtown,KY | We used to combine it with a 55 John Deere and a 12A when I was a kid, the 55 had a 12' head and a SACKING attachment, it was bought new that way. It was a '50 model with the Hercules engine, my dad started letting me run it when I was 12, it would work 2 men hard in good wheat or oats.
Edited by Red/Green 6/19/2013 18:08
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Kingdom of Callaway - Fulton, Mo 65251 | The best combine for straight cutting fescue was a 101 International. Easier to unload, tailings had a slide instead of a cross auger, lots of little simple things like those that hurt it in good crops but made it better for damp fescue. Good luck finding one running!
You need a Gleaner if you cut it green and damp, especially when the dastardly white weed shows up. I cut a field yesterday with a K.
The best way is to swath it and let it dry, then any will do. |
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missouri | the worst for straight cutting is a 4400/4420 deere with 6600/6620 coming in a very close second they will cut it but you have to know exactly how to and a change or to to the machine helps a bunch but definatly not a machine i would look for if planning on cutting fescue was the seed dry olivetroad ? been thinkin bout trying a field hear any day |
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Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | The last time I combined grass seed was with a CaseIH 1682 pulled by a JD 8400. That tractor had enough power to really plug things good.
Like Pokey said, pretty much any combine will work.
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Owensville, Missouri | I ran a JD 4400. Worked really well. I would drop the rear cover under the shoe auger and put some styrofam over part of the straw walkers. This was with a 215 platform. Most of the time I would unload without having to get out of the cab unless it was thin seed. The thicker the seed the better. I'd also take the covers off the 3 little augers in the bin. I'm going to try it with the 7720 and a 220 flex this year. I might be wishing I had the 4400 back. Good luck. |
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central mo | Massey's are all you see in my county cutting fescue except a few old gleaners down south, Not fun to work on but older massey's are cheap and there is several in salvage |
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Kingdom of Callaway - Fulton, Mo 65251 | No, it was not dry enough yet to sell, but close. I had 12 acres next to some wheat and I wanted to get the seed off early so I could bale it and then notill milo in at the same time as the wheat field. I recleaned it and am drying it on tarps - I plan to keep it to sow myself. Field was clean and seed was heavy.
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Central Missouri | Im just across the fence from Snorf and we run 4 850 MF, looking like this year we will run a pair of 18' rigid, 17.5' agco stripper, and a 20' mf stripper. Lots of Massey combines parted out locally.
Tommy |
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SW, Missouri | Better to swath it or just combine it standing? |
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Combining Fescue Seed
