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  • malleefarmer
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2005
    • 5424

    Wish me luck farm related

    38c dead calm yesterday good harvesting weather.

    Hit the hay at midnight.

    4.30am 25 c could or should be back at it.

    39c today but dry lightning to my west in coming .

    So checked news checked agriville coffee bacon, lightning patrol till mid morning its seems.

    That darn nap scenario might be in order mid afternoon some rain forecast.

    Hope it does reduces risk
  • fjlip
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2002
    • 9819

    #2
    I have never experienced anything remotely near your situation. Totally foreign. Do your best, -20C this morning, 2' of snow.

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    • woodland
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2015
      • 1972

      #3
      I’m with FJLIP. Once we stopped baling hay that got too dry and left it till dark but that’s it. No such thing as too dry or hot here during harvest. Dry lighting........... rare as a bikini in January.

      Only -15 and a foot of snow here.
      Do we live on the same planet?😉

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      • highwayman
        Senior Member
        • May 2007
        • 508

        #4
        2018 had to shut the combines down mid august afternoon. Two or three days in a row I believe Harvesting lentils in 42 degree heat and rotor gear case was pushing oil out from overheating. Extreme fire hazard. Here in the hood of south central. Straight outa Compton 😜

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        • helmsdale
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2014
          • 2127

          #5
          Originally posted by highwayman View Post
          2018 had to shut the combines down mid august afternoon. Two or three days in a row I believe Harvesting lentils in 42 degree heat and rotor gear case was pushing oil out from overheating. Extreme fire hazard. Here in the hood of south central. Straight outa Compton 😜
          South East alberta here, and august harvesting can present the same sorts of challenges. By september it usually tames down, but 35 degrees with a stiff wind and you're asking for serious trouble. Get into that 40 degree range and its time to just go home and drink beer on the couch...

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          • Sheepwheat
            Senior Member
            • Jun 2017
            • 3137

            #6
            Originally posted by helmsdale View Post
            South East alberta here, and august harvesting can present the same sorts of challenges. By september it usually tames down, but 35 degrees with a stiff wind and you're asking for serious trouble. Get into that 40 degree range and its time to just go home and drink beer on the couch...
            August harvesting. Lol

            Here it’s more usual to be combining wearing a parka than it is wearing a t shirt!

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            • malleefarmer
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2005
              • 5424

              #7
              We have a code of conduct.

              And weather stAtions with same info.

              Humidity wind and temp calculated once it reaches a certain number on scale harvesting should stop. Not mandatory but 95% comply. Insurance issues if you don’t.

              Anyway 1 mm of rain humid sonthats enough to stop lightning strike ignition.

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              • fjlip
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2002
                • 9819

                #8
                Originally posted by Sheepwheat View Post
                August harvesting. Lol

                Here it’s more usual to be combining wearing a parka than it is wearing a t shirt!
                In the late 70's wore a snowmobile suit in a cab without a heater...swaths sparkled with frost

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                • Sheepwheat
                  Senior Member
                  • Jun 2017
                  • 3137

                  #9
                  Originally posted by fjlip View Post
                  In the late 70's wore a snowmobile suit in a cab without a heater...swaths sparkled with frost
                  That was me in 1993. John Deere 95. Window open to prevent frost on glass. Sparkling swaths. Happened a lot since, just have a heater at least now. A/C is for those rare days with sun! Lol

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                  • malleefarmer
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2005
                    • 5424

                    #10
                    Black as a dogs guts here at moment incoming anytime i reckon

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