Tonight's tractor ride

Dan in Ohio · Oct 28, 2013

Headed out around the block on my favorite ride to enjoy one of the nicest fall seasons we have had in some time.

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I could see the dust and hear the roar then they crested the hill

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My favorite tractor to drive.

larry@stinescorner · Oct 28, 2013

beautiful!!

FLOLDFORD · Oct 28, 2013

Great pictures. Being from Florida I have never been able to see this. Maybe one day I'll take a few weeks off and come north in the fall just to see this in person.

Wheat Farmer · Oct 28, 2013

I remember when a friend got a new two row picker. Am I counting about 16 rows on that combine. About the same as a 32' wheat head?
The last combine we owned was a big IHC 18 teen footer. Ha

Paul from MI · Oct 28, 2013

You have to be in the midwest somewhere to see it. This afternoon I had five combines within 1/2 mile of my place running corn and soybeans. We are in for a short stretch of dry weather and everyone is hitting it hard. As for me, I'm patching up everything that broke on the combine so it'll be ready to go on wheat next summer. Hope to be done tomorrow, then move on to replacing the manifold gasket on my JD D so it's ready for spring work. Never out of work around here.

ShadetreeRet · Oct 28, 2013

With a cloud of dust and a hearty, Hi yo Silver! Well maybe just a cloud of dust. I have never seen anything that large in action either. In this area there are no farms large enough for equipment that large. There are some farms in eastern NC that could likely utilize something that size, but I have never been in that area during harvest time. Nice country.

notjustair · Oct 28, 2013

I just can't imagine owning something that large. I also can't imagine having a cart that big. I don't have a cart and neither does one neighbor - we are the minority. I'm not in that big of a rush and don't have enough help for another steering wheel. Some of those new carts are worth way more than any of my equipment!

Anyone have a guess how many bushels that cart is? 1000? 700 for the grain semi seems big to me.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 28, 2013

I've spent my share of hours following a little 4 row head around the field. And I've seen the big boys like the one in the pictures. I have to chuckle when I watch them go. When I run with 4 rows and I see a stalk laying over here and there, I can drop my snoots and pick it up. I know for a fact that that guy is leaving a bunch of corn in the field. I also get a kick out of watching them go around a corner or open up a field. It's more like a bulldozer than a combine. And if they do get a nice straight stretch then their cell phone rings and they are going so damn fast they still can't keep it in the rows. Sorry, I just couldn't resist!!

BigMarv1085 · Oct 28, 2013

I was just up in Elizabeth City North Carolina and they are wide open harvesting. They have these ditches cut through the fields to drain off the water but they use grain cats and everything is new or pretty close to it. There was one field thazt they were unloading 2 brand new John Deeres off of. We will be cutting Beans here in Georgia probably Friday with a 7720 and haul with 3 trucks and a semi.

gab · Oct 28, 2013

Neighbor pulled in to the 50 acre field on the west side of my yard at 6 tonight with the same size of equipment plus semi. He was using 2 semi's and another grain cart this afternoon east of here. Tomorrow another huge JD will show up pulling a monster soil finisher.

Craig2 · Oct 28, 2013

When I was laid off from my job I was able to help a neighbor harvest corn. At that time he had a JD with an eight row head. Grain cart was on tracks. Would hold around 1000 to 1100 bushel. Would dump on the go at 5 1/2 mph. Once full you would run like he77 to the semi. 22" unload auger, then run like he77 back to the combine. 16 to 18 mph through the field with a CIH MX245 pulling that cart. Made me nervous running that tractor that fast through the field. I was more comfortable in the semis so that's where I pretty much stayed. Would start around 8am getting things ready then shell til about 1 or 2 in the morning. Long hours but good people to work for. Haven't been able to help in a couple years, I kinda miss it.

JD John · Oct 28, 2013

Grain cart more than likely hold 1200 or 1500 bushels. Combine alone holds 400.

casenut1 · Oct 28, 2013

Don't know what part of Ohio you're in. But here in central Ohio ,35' grain heads and 16 row corn heads are pretty normal.

Spook · Oct 28, 2013

I saw one just like that a couple weeks ago, doing beans. Loading into a semi. At the other end of the field, there was a tractor with a finishing tool and a planter, putting in winter wheat. Harvested, tilled up, planted, all in the same day. No idea how much all that equipment in that field cost, but it must be a bunch. The guy farms about 12K acres. Obviously not by himself.

SweetFeet · Oct 29, 2013

Great photos.

Kind of makes me miss farming... taking lunch to my husband in the field, the relief when harvest was done, etc.

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