Big Ben - 11/19/2021 22:32
SVS - 11/19/2021 15:28
Glen W.-Has that 480 hours been all on wheat? If so I’m struggling to understand why volcanic soil wears the combine when presumably no dirt goes through the combine. Does the straw carry abrasive dust in? Is the grain especially hard or abrasive?
I think in the plains a wheat machine is expected to wear less than a corn/soybean machine. Maybe I’m wrong about that?
A plains wheat machine will almost never see yields like the high rainfall areas in this state, or unwashed wheat like the low rainfall areas. It doesn’t rain hard out here to wash the dust off the plants, and especially as harvest nears, it often doesn't rain at all. The wheat land is downwind of desert and tilled fallow ground, so there’s always dirt in the air before harvest and the standing wheat fields act like a big air filter. It’s easy to see the effect on irrigated ground, rill irrigated crops are always way dirtier than overhead irrigated crops.
That’s my theory anyway on why combines wear so badly in the Dryland.
Anyone ever switch from or to Case Flagship to S Series Deere Combine?
