Using Forage Harvesters you can get special materials from your crops that cannot be acquired by a normal Harvester. Depending on which Forage Header you use, and what kind of crop you use it on, you can get one of four different materials:. As with Harvesting Headers , a wider Forage Header is typically better but more expensive. Also, you need to remember that smaller Forage Harvesters may struggle with certain models of Headers.
Read individual articles on Forage Harvester and Forage Header models to learn which fits best. Once you've purchased the correct header and attached it to your Forage Harvester, you also need to decide how you're going to collect the materials produced by the Harvester. A Forage Harvester does not have an internal tank, and cannot store any materials.
Instead, you must purchase some sort of container - a Tipper or Loading Wagon - to hold the material. The larger the container you choose, the more you can harvest before it needs to be emptied or replaced. After selecting your container, you must decide whether you want to tow it behind your Forage Harvester, or use a separate vehicle.
Unlike a normal Harvester, a Forage Harvester can automatically fill up any container it is towing, so this is usually the best option.
Alternatively, you can use a Tractor or other vehicle to tow the container next to the Forage Harvester while it works, as you would with a normal Harvester. You can now turn on the Harvester itself and begin the forage harvest. Your pipe will automatically point to the nearest container it can find within a limited distance that has room for more materials. It will automatically swivel as needed to track the position of any available container. Normally, it will first fill any container being towed by the Forage Harvester itself.
If it can't find one or it's full , it will look for any container being dragged alongside the harvester by another vehicle, or any other nearby container it can find. If at any point during the harvest the pipe cannot find any available container nearby, any material you harvest will be completely lost.
If this happens, make sure to stop harvesting immediately to avoid destroying your crops for nothing. Get a container near the harvester before continuing. Forage Harvesters themselves are quite powerful, and can tow their own Tippers or Loading Wagons , even the very massive ones. Each Forage Harvester has both Drawbar Ball and Drawbar Bolt attachments at the rear, which will hook up to most containers easily.
This is the corn head where up to 12 rows of corn plants are dragged through a series of reciprocating spiked wheels designed to roughly chop the material. A pair of rollers then clamp and feed the material into the knife rotor behind it which chops the leaves, stalks and corn cobs into even lengths.
Powering the machine is a massive litre cylinder MAN engine in a V configuration that produces hp kW. A little further up the line are the two silver-coloured Shredlage rollers that crack the corn kernels and stalks to create better silage. There are kernel crackers on different brands of machines that do a similar job. Above this is the accelerator rotor that spins rapidly to eject the material out the chute into a forage wagon.
To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? Abmelden Registrieren. How should I use a forage harvester? Seite 1 von 1. Beitrag von MrSquealypig » Fr Feb 14, pm I really like using a forage harvester, but I've only ever used them for poplars in the past. To be honest, I've never really known whether I should be using a forage harvester vs.
Are they really only meant to be used for really large fields? I was thinking about getting one on my mini-brunn save, but maybe that's not appropriate. Let me know how you guys use your forage harvesters. Any advice is greatly appreciated! Nach oben. Re: How should I use a forage harvester? Beitrag von Noraf » Fr Feb 14, pm Well, you have the E C on the modhub that'll probably fit just fine there. For Real. If this game was about realism, we should be using 3m seeders on most of our fields.
I like using a forage harvester just because it gives me a different machine to have fun with. I do use a pickup trailer for a lot of grasswork, but on Marwell I use the John Deere for corn silage.
If anything, just lease one if your on the fence. In game you'll only be able to use the hired helper with corn or whole crop regular grains for example. In the UK the more popular use for forage harvesters is similar to bales. Headlands are done first as you would with grass bales and combine harvesters.
On console the only way to this is to hook up a trailer to the back of a forage harvester, and you're limited to only a few trailers those with a high hitch, namely the Straumann SEK , the Fortschritt HW 80, the Farmtech TDK and the Agroliner HKD in the base game , and either drive the forage harvester back and forward to the silage pit or disconnect it and use a tractor, which quickly gets annoying.
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