Posted by Roger Tomfohrde on September 20, 2019 at 08:33:11 from (73.5.137.12):
In Reply to: Whatever you say, Bub posted by Donald Lehman on September 19, 2019 at 14:38:59:
We rented a farm that had the steepest ground on it we farmed. We did contour fields all the time and in the 25 years I was involved tipped only one wagon over in an area that was actually not that steep. This piece I am talking about when you planted corn on it with 4 row wide the planter tractor you had to be real close to driving on the last row planted to get the spacing right. Slid down a few of those hills from using too small of a tractor and one time combing corn it started to drizzle and I told my dad now would be a good time to get off that hill. Barely made it. We usually did not chop corn on the steeper stuff, just planted it to combine later. I have been on steeper ground when custom swathing but really wondered if it was worth it as a lot of road ditches were less steep. I do agree with sometimes going straight up as that last piece I don't think a regular straw walker combine would function well, going straight up the grain would go over the sieves and down it would not have enough air to lift the stuff off. Sideways everything went down hill and getting slow enough was an issue.Not sure about rotaries as they were just coming out when I left farming full time.
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