Combiner with trailer/w/pipe problem?

[Thundersnapper]

Trying to use a combiner (the compact ones) with long pipe and a soybean header and a trailer with pipe but even if I pick combiner/header/trailer w pipe all set for soybean, the trailer doesn't get filled up! I have to drive along with tractor and trailer. IRL they use trailer with pipes and then transfer to a ordinary trailer. Don't get what's failing?!?!

[The Big Brzezinski]

I suppose it's not something that's never been done ever, but I've certainly never seen or heard of a combine harvester unloading into its own trailer as it goes. Certainly none of the combines in this game work like that.

[Lord Nighthawk]

That thing for overloading is called an auger, so it´s an auger wagon.
But i don´t get your explanation, you put the header at the harvester and behind the harvester you hook the auger or what?
An auger wagon requires to be powered (per pto -> power take off), else it would not be capable to overload anything.

[Thundersnapper]

I want to use a forage harvester with a auger trailer behind to fill up and then transfer seeds to a trailer from tractor. So I don't need to drive besides the forage harvester all the time.

[Lord Nighthawk]

IRL nobody hooks up anything behind a forage harvester - normally. You can hook up trailers in the game so solo players have a bit more comfort using them. A forage harvester has no pto so an auger wagon won´t work as it does not get powered.

Second trailers have a floor-node and the forage harvesters have a detection node. If they fail to detect these nodes they can´t unload or only partially unload.

Whatever you try to do won´t really work, use a normal trailer as this is supported as a comfort function.

And you seem to mix up a lot of things. A forage harvester shreds your harvest into tiny pieces so you can turn it into silage. If you want to harvest your soy for getting grain you have to use a normal combine harvester. There are special augers that are rarely used with forage harvesters and the grain harvest normally has the auger carts with the pipes to overload.

[Thundersnapper]

So what so i harvest now? I'm using forage harvester that fills up my trailer. I can sell that right?

A lit of learning in this game without manual

[Lord Nighthawk]

This game has a manual.
When on the map press "Esc", take the last point left bottom and then look right side. Everything explained.
Selling chopped material won´t give anything useful. Read the manual, watch some youtube videos how people do things, play the introduction. As you can do a lot in the game i can´t and won´t explain that here - too many options.

Giants also have an "academy" section on their homepage with further informations.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Originally posted by Thundersnapper:

I want to use a forage harvester with a auger trailer behind to fill up and then transfer seeds to a trailer from tractor. So I don't need to drive besides the forage harvester all the time.

Well a forage harvester isn't going to harvest grain. It's going to shred the material into chaff for making silage.

To harvest grain, you need a combine harvester. Combines have a grain tank that will hold a fair amount of soybeans. I would recommend driving yourself using steering assist rather than hiring an AI helper. The tipper can moved around the field by a helper instead to wherever you wish to pause and offload at. It's not really any slower than chasing an helper-driven harvester, since a player is always more proficient.

But back on the topic of forage harvesters pulling trailers for a moment. In FS25 at least, you've got two options;
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3384897221
With a dolly, a forage harvester can pull a semitrailer. No PTO is necessary. The harvester will then have to itself drive the chaff to its destination. It's not very efficient in terms of tool utilization, but it does let a single person to the whole process in one big step, which may suit a solo player.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3401395006
Option two is a sugarcane trailer. These function like auger wagons in that they can offload to other trailers. It's just that instead of extending a pipe over the receiving trailer, they simply lift up and flip the entire hopper over it. This is probably more appropriate if you want to offload into large stationary trailers a the field instead of chasing an AI helper.

[joridiculous]

You cant hook up a trailer to a harvester, but you can hook up Baler to make bales of the straw the harvester dumps, but you need a "dolly" mod. Snüfelstück on mod-hub (https://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.php?mod_id=305098&title=fs2025)