PIC: JD 30 combine 4020 in 2nd crop Saybeans

Here is my 1958 7-foot 30 combine and grandpa's 1967 4020. Running double-crop soybeans with the wheat straw near Lafayette, IN. This was about a month ago but I finally got aroung to plugging it into the computer.

The first grain sample (pictured) wasn't too bad at all but it continually got worse after that. I closed the bottom sieve gradually every time I dumped until the tailings clogged up but I kept getting more unthreashed pods. I guess the beans were just getting tougher? Started around 3:30 and finished about 5-6 PM with about 1 hour of light left abd had done roughly 5 acres. New rasp bars, about half of the smaller belts and possibly a few bearings are in order before we run it next time.

Sorry on the limited pictures, I was a 1-man photography & driver crew that day.

Thanks for looking

In the mid 1960's the neighbor across the road had a 55 JD SP and a #30 JD combine that he pulled with a 4010.

There are also thousands of guys running part time and adding that extra 20 thousand to their yearly income.

Maybe I'm being over optimistic, but we can't all inherit $2,000,000 worth of land at $3000/acre, and pay another $90,000 a year in cash rent.

Look for a guy with 200 acres that doesn't want his farm to become just a number in someone's 2000 acre balance sheet. Offer to pay him to help you when he wants. Run a lean operation, make some money, and raise your kids on a grain farm.

If you want to farm, then farm. Thats the way to get started going big anyway.

Matt

Matt

This is what it was lookin' like toward the end.