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tomstractorsandtoys

tomstractorsandtoys

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We started bean harvest today. Yeild seems good and moisture is 14%. Some of the stems are very green. I was planning on using my Deere 105 but the beans are fit and the neighbor had time to cut so I hired them. I should stay away from the dust anyways as I have lung problems. They have 2 6620 Titan II machines.Tom
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Nice outfit. I've got a 6620 with Titan updates along with a 915 flex head and a 643 corn head. Your neighbors equipment is a bit nicer than mine. I just stuck a new set of rasp bars in mine and changed a few bearings. Maybe start a week from now.
 
The cousin started here yesterday. We have only had .02" of rain thus far in Sept. Beans test at 12.4%.
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I took this picture from same location 20 days ago. (Oops see pic further down). The beans dried down incredibly fast with the lack of rain this month, but we were lucky and got some nice rains earlier when the crops needed it.-------Last year it was impossible to get beans dried down and lost some due to snow. Hoping for good weather for next 10 days and beans will be done. Corn is looking real good also. Ears dropped and husks opening up. We hoping to have our cake and eat it this fall. I tried plowing last week but ground is way too dry to moldboard plow oat ground. Finished baling the last of the 3rd cutting earlier this week.

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My bean harvest was wrapped up yesterday. Two combines with 35 foot heads can cover some ground a lot quicker than my old Deere 105 with a 15 foot head did. Average yield was in the mid-50s, much better than I had it pegged at in the end of our hot August. One small area of one field showed 80 BPA on the combine monitor. That is the yield I can take to the coffee shop. LOL. Some of the stubble was green as grass but the moisture was in the mid-12s. This is northwest Iowa.
 
Lot of beans harvested here and many fields already fertilized and chiseled. Western Mn. Some corn coming out also.
 
Started mine this week. Beans are down to 14 percent moisture, but a lot of green stems. One variety was particularly green and wrapped themselves nicely around the thresher beaterin the M3....learned some new swear words, and after the third time it plugged, I moved to another spot in the field. Yield is trending over 60 bushels per acre.

Ben
 
We're running 11-12 moisture and green stems it makes the combine grunt. Everybody I talk to says the same thing. At 4-5 in the afternoon I can get up to 3.5 mph with my 9400,918 in low 60 bpa beans. The yield has amazed me, very happy.
 
I started Tuesday. Did half a acre and took a sample to double check to town. Then decided to check on the health of a couple trees on the farmstead, Trees are healthy, at least more healthy than the unloading auger. Day and a half fixing that and been at it. Very pleased with the yield considering the August we had. BTW I am about 15 miles East of Fixerupper. Had one of the best looking crops I have seen in quite a while then the faucet got turned off. Corn went brown end of August. Haven't heard much about what corn is doing for others, guess we will see when we get into it.

jt
 
There were a few fields cut between Portland and Lake Odessa the other day when we went by. There was some wheat planted also. Either that or a cover crop. We still have green leaves though they are deciding to ripen since the frost last week.
 
He started on the center and crest of what you call a hill, you can see where he threw the first round together, so the slight grade or hill as you call it he is throwing it up the pass he was making int he pic is all but level,,
 
My beans are not turning yet. I'm going to use my 'new' Jd 55 'Corn Special'. It has the long fingered sieve. Wonder how that will work?
 
The long finger is what you want for corn and beans. Deere called them "deep tooth". I had a 55 corn special that we cut beans with for a long time untill it got 303 disease (antifreeze in the oil). Machine was about wore out so we junked it. Tom
 
My brother-in-law has two 6620's, one his Dad bought new for corn, other he bought for parts that he uses for beans. He's used up ALL the drive wheels and final drives in all the combine salvage yards for hundreds of miles around. He breaks the bolt circle out of the wheels. A buddy used a gas 4400 on his 22 acres he farmed. Beans one year, corn the next, needed ear corn for cattle feed, he'd fill half their crib and combine the rest. He started having problems getting parts, and he only lived 2-3 miles from Deere's biggest parts warehouse. Too many NLA parts. I imagine parts for 6620's going NLA too. They can't sell new combines with all those 30-40 year old machines still running.
 
Parts availability pretty good both new and used for 6620/7720. There is a parts yard one hour away from me that has both JD and IH/CIH parts. Shoup is also an excellent source for older JD and IH combines. I'm running a 6620 and although I would like to upgrade to a rotary running out of common wear parts is not one worry I have. As with any machine from 40 years ago things such as new engine blocks or new cylinder heads are not available for either IH or JD. Your BIL may have to look a little further away from home than what he is used to. Since there is more grain thrashed in the corn belt I'm not surprised that parts machine are used up in that area versus here in the Northeast.
 
Here in Louisiana we have pretty much finished up with the 2020 harvest year. Tropical Storm Beta dumped enough rain to keep us out of the field for a week. If not for that, most grain farmers would be through. As it is, there are a smattering of soybeans still out there and most of the cotton is yet to be picked. Time to hunt and fish!
 
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