Combine Capacity

How many acres a day do guys using small combines cover? By small I mean 100hp or less. In what crop/yield? I took a 660 Case out to salvage some beans in between some fresh tile runs and seemed to cover about 1 acre an hour in 50 bushel beans, and it got me curious about real world capacity.

With a 14 ft header every one mile an hour travel speed = 1.7 acers

My Deere 105 in 80 bu. beans with 13 ft. head was cutting about 2 acres per hour. That is with stopping to unload. Even in small grain we cut about 10 acres per day. Usually not that much in corn as I have to stop and unload some wagons. Tom

Welp myself i never did beans just small grain and corn LOTS of corn with a 300 Massey and a two row #24 head . as long as they could keep me with some place to unload a truck or gravity wagon and ya had best have enough of them i could munch thru around 35 to 40 acres of corn in a day and small grain as long as it was standing good 25-30 acres a day and again if they could keep the grain away fast enough . That little combine loved corn and you could run second gear two third up on the variable . i would run way over 300 acres a year thru it between my crop and custom . my one customer the first year i told him to make sure we had enough trucks and wagons so i did not have to set and wait . So he bought his one gain truck and parked it out by the road and took two gravity boxes to the back with is 4240 . I did not even have the field open when the truck waqs running over and both wagons were stuffed full and here i am setting with a full bin . Rusty shows up and see's everything is full and i am having a coffee and the combine is shut off . He comes up to me and said i''l got get Ronnies truck and my brothers truck and run everything in and get them empty . So i set for another half hour waiting . well Ronnies place was just down over the hill and he brings his truck up as he was going to drive it , So i empty out and go back to running corn and by the time Rusty gets back Ronnies if FULL i mean full and i have a full bin and when he pulls in with Dan's truck i dump and go back to combining and the two of them leave for the LONG drive of 7 miles to the elevator . Tow more quick dumps and now dan's truck is full and i am setting Here comes his oldest son to take the tractor and wagons in and i am once again full and setting and he tells me that he will run down to uncle dan's and get his two wagons and tractor then take the first load in . Once we got a system working i kept there 350 Bushel grain trucks running and two tractors and four wagons on the go just as fast as they could do a round . we were in some really good corn for our area and off that little 300 Massey it was shipping the best samples of any with 0 dockage .

Tractor Vet, that's a good story. Kind of reminds me of some of Big Dean's stories.

JP.

Yeah its almost believable

Kinda makes me think 'then the alarm clock went off and woke me from my dream'-- just kidding, lol!