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Number 500 Deere combine!

big tee

big tee

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There is a neat story on Ag-talk about Chad Olson from Minn. who is a custom harvester. He took a bus load of employs to Moline and drove his 500th Deere combine off the line during his gold key tour. Olson custom cutters harvest between 700,00 and 800,000 acres every year. Maybe somebody can do the link thing-very interesting.---Tee
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How many combines are they running during a typical harvest season? Guess running combine for them might be a pretty good gig- everything is probably less than 5 years old.
 
Those drive tires are pretty small. Do they always run them through the assembly line with tires that small?
 
I don't believe they cut over 200 acres per day per machine with 10 machines to get that acreage.
I know it has been about 25 years since I went on a harvest crew. We were using 9600's with 10 of them we cut about 100 acres per day per machine. Did get a few times with 200 per machine but only a couple of days when all the fields were contiguous or close to it. We couldn't do any 5 mile travels and get that.
We had 10 9600's 2, 1240 Kinze carts and an 840 Kinze. 5 semi's with 5 bobtails with pups. In ID we got the farmers trucks and we let ours set. The carts were pulled with a 876 versatile ,1360 Stieger and a 4955 Deere. We had to split the machines up to keep them from being in the way with that much equipment in one field.
 
They ship with the small wheels so they sit lower on the trucks.
Not sure about the assembly line but it looks like it makes more room around the axle area.
 
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