Fuel Usage Gleaner R6

Trevor4440 · Jan 14, 2019

I've been doing a lot of thought on costs for my budget next year. I'm trying to make it more accurate than it has been in the past. I'm looking to see if any of you guys have an idea on fuel usage for an R6 which has the Allis 426 motor. I'm running full throttle of course to keep everything to speed but only running a 6 row corn and 15' bean. I'm also going somewhat slow say 2 to 2.8 absolute top. I'm coming up with a shockingly high fuel use 5 to 6 gal/acre. I realize I'm running way under capacity but the machine is 30+ years old and augers/elevators are pretty worn. Also I'm in small irregular shaped fields, some decent hills, no grain buggy, pretty good yielding corn/beans and spread out with a decent bit of road time between farm. Still that seems excessive. I guess I need to really start trying to cut down the idle time and pick up the speed a little. Anyone else here have a fuel/hr or acre estimate on an N or R with the 426?

centash · Jan 14, 2019

My M3 with the 426 burns about half that....but it's probably half the size/ weight...and I thought it was hard on fuel.
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JD Seller · Jan 14, 2019

Those series of combines are fuel hogs. I had a fellow cut some oats for me one summer with a N6. I had windrowed the oats and broke my pickup head. Calling for rain so I hired him to run them. The common practice around here is the farmer provides the fuel for the custom operator. He was full at a neighbors farm less than one mile away. He had 50 acres of oats to run and had to come and fill up to finish. IRC it took some thing like 4-5 gallons per acre. It did seem like that combine smoked like it was under heavy load all the time.

My JD 6620 will usually run Oats on 1- 1 1/2 gallons per acres.

jm. · Jan 14, 2019

I am thinking your travel, road time is making your per acre figure higher. Mid west where there average field is 200 acres or so they just cannot think about us farming 4 thousand acres and 80 acre field is the largest. Definitely affects the bottom line. I am thinking your actual in the crop per acre should be around 3.3 from my past experience.

Trevor4440 · Jan 15, 2019

Thanks for replies guys. I'm going to try to idle less and run a little quicker with the smaller heads. All the idle/road time/slow going doesn't help. From what JDSeller said it sounds like I'm in the right ballpark on my estimate. I guess it is what it is keep running it...

jfreed · Jan 15, 2019

Is a R6 in the same zip code as a 6620??

SVcummins · Jan 16, 2019

I did 40 acres of barley plus a 20 mile road trip in the 7700 and used less than 50 gallon of diesel

IowaJohn · Jan 17, 2019

I've got a JD 9400 combine and for me I only save a quarter to a half gallon per acre when my wife is keeping up with me over driving to find a wagon/cart when I work by myself. Idling or driving thru the field doesn't seem to take alot of fuel.

MattLF9 · Jan 19, 2019

My 426 in my N5 under load uses 11 gallons an hour but I absolutely pull the snot out of it and it's set at 210 horsepower.

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