Soybean harvest ( lots pictures)

Finished soybeans yesterday, they ran around 30 bushel and 11-12 moisture. 7720 combine with 924 flex head. Elavator switched to a scan system, you scan your card at the check in scale and then again at the exit scale, you never talk to anybody unless you want to change from contract sale, DP, or spot, there is an intercom at each scale if you have a question. It was a slow day after some showers when I took the pictures, but the day before around 20 semis, most pulling doubles were lined up, they dump a semi in less than 2 minutes.

The one picture is the old elevator where we use to scale on and off, it is no longer used.

800 versatile and water trailer were in the field in case of fire, wind has been blowing something terribly lately.

Thanks for the pics. Sounds like everybody's getting the auto scales.

Glad you got finished, thanks for the pics. We are waiting to start and with the rain we have had lately, its beginning to look like we won't cut any in October. Pretty sure we won't need to borrow your water trailer.

Is that a pile of beans on the ground? I would be afraid of rain.

I'm in the process of building a water tender to haul for my sprayer and I decided to set it up for fire suppression should the combine catch. Thought it was a clever idear but, as usual, someone was way ahead of me. What is that piled on the ground anyway?

Dave, beans on both piles, they will load out as unit trains come in. They have already loaded out 2 unit trains (112 cars each) since harvest has started. The smaller pile will load out first to make room for corn. If you have one of those small hand held 2.5 gallon pump up sprayers, put in your combine or mount it somewhere. If you have a smoldering hot spot, they work good for getting in a tight spot.

Would take a lot of bins to put those piles of beans in, generally not much rain here in the fall, they will load out as trains arrive in. The smaller pile will load out first to make room for corn, when pile is full of corn it will be tarped for winter and be hauled to local ethanol plants next spring and summer. Beans are all hauled out on rail and are usually gone by early winter.

My brother had a turbo 800; he sold it to our nephew after he retired. Nephew got mad at his JD 4WD always breaking down. The 800 uses 1/3 less fuel, has more power and is more reliable than the JD that he had.

Nice pics. Thanks you guys for asking my questions: what's in the pile, how does it leave, corn sitting on the ground getting tarped not just sitting exposed to the weather.

I guess that first picture is all about quarter of a million $$$. 30' header?

Ground nice and flat. Just the thing.

I used to moonlight at an elevator in Altus, OK. during the fall harvest. Worked the power shovels in the railroad cars we were unloading. You run up the pile of wheat dragging this board with a cable attached to a motor. You had about 30 seconds to get to the top of the wheat before the clutch kicked in. What a workout, but I was 20 and fit for the task.

We had a little rod with a curved end that we put against the wheel and worked it like a can opener to get the cars rolling down to the unloading grate. Had a board and cardboard over the door opening with wheat piled up not too far from the top of the car. Had to duck to make the first few runs up the wheat.

In the spring it was cleaning up the bug spraying aircraft at the local airport. I was from S. TX. and the Okla. landscape and weather were a pleasant change from the humid coast.

Mark

I've only seen a Co-op pile beans outside once before. The following year that Co-op hired a new manager.

You are much drier than western Iowa and Minnesota Which state are you in, (Moline, Illinois)?

24' 924 flex head, can buy a descent one for around $2,000, cuts a little slower than the new ones, but does a nice job.

Beans usually always get piled on the ground around here during harvest, North central south Dakota. As the trains arrive the piles will be cleaned up. The pile is on an asphalt slab, there are grain systems under the pile to bring the grain back into the grain legs to load into trains and the rest is scooped into semis or pushed into the drains with large payloaders. Much more cost effective than having millions and millions of dollars invested in bins that will sit empty 10 months out of the year. Corn that is piled will be tarped and hauled out with semis during the sring and summer to ethanol plants.

No turbo on this one, but simple old horsepower for sure.

Surely seems to. Looks wider than a 24. I ran a 24 on a Model 95. Johnny come lately farmer. I bought that and later a MF 760 with a 24. Not much combining around here. Just one of those spur of the minute brain pfarts that we sometimes get.

Mark

I'm dinging this again. Remembering the times I ran my combines, especially the MF 760 which was much newer than the JD 95, combining has been the most enjoyable of my farming experiences. Working with nature and the soil, running along cutting new while unloading into the truck along side, dust everywhere. Even topped out over the smell of fresh turned earth and watching a plow doing it's job.

Thanks again for the pics.

Mark