Good entertainemnt on a winter evening!! Harvest video!!

I found this Wheat harvesting video. It is real nice with lots of beautiful scenery. It sure shows a different view with a drone camera.
LaRosh Wheat Harvest 2015

Some old iron in this too. A JD 55 working beside a JD 9500 and JD 9510

jd !... very inspiring!

OK, I'll be the first to ask: why did they leave strips in some of the fields? For wildlife?

My uncle had three 55's like that one. After we got our crop combined, I'd go over and run one of the 55's for him. He always complained that the wino's that he hired couldn't keep up with him on the combine. I'd take advantage of every light windrow and not waste time when I unloaded, so I would gain a round on him in the morning and another round in the afternoon. He never said anything to me, just smiled.

I like the video where they set a record 68,000 bu corn in 12 hrs the backup it takes just to take the corn away from the combine just think thats 68 semi loads in 12 hrs thats over 5 an hour or one semi every 12 or so minutes 500 acre field. Look it up

Very nice. Got up a little earlier to get things done . Now just sat here and watched the whole thing, plus a little more. Not the first time this happened.

very nice..better than a reality show on tv for sure! thanks

JD Seller,

Thanks for posting. Grandpa would be astounded.

Love seeing those old girls in there... and the ending shot was beautiful.

It was a nice video. It shows the glamour side of wheat production. The video is nearing 250,000 views.

I have been watching the American Harvest show on the RFD channel. It is a much bigger operation, but somehow still gives the impression there is a little "family" left in farming. So far they have shown more of the pitfalls of farming and much less of the glamour.

I hope the LaRosh video viewers are also watching American Harvest so they gain the knowledge that farming isn't just glamour and glory.

Very nice! Loved seeing the old 55 in there with the newbies. We had a 55 on tracks & it could run over the softest, wet gumbo and hardly leave a track.

The strips I think you are talking about may have been terraces. The wide platforms do not like terraces. They may have used the 55 to harvest them or used one of the other machines but only used half the platform. Doesn't look the "best" for video. '

I grew up in Osborne county. Only crew member I recognized was Jim "Jimmy" Dibble.

Dad had two different 55's and later a 4400. 4400 had a water cooler air conditioner. Thought we had gone to heaven! 55's were without cabs!

Roger

gene, was that the stewart farms video with the lexion combine? that was filmed here.

Just all it took to do that job is realy something wish they would have showed more of the equipment. Just where did they go cause to unload that much and get back to the field is a feat in itself when you think about having at least 4 or more buggies just to take away from the combine and the list just goes on when you think about the operation. Would have been fun just to be a bystander and watch and stay the h--- out of the way even trafic on the road the list keeps growing.

here is the video
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I watched that video last week. I thought to myself that the production was very good. Thought Hollywood could take a page from this vs. all the CG stuff.
There are several other good pieces out there both new and old. I spend most of my TV viewing on You Tube because I refuse to pay the fees that the big dogs want for dish service and our streaming rates are much more reasonable. That and the fact that I fall asleep before a 1 hr. show is over. Some of my favorites are the od auto makers promotional movies. Vintage McCormick should find a hoot of a sales film form the 30's. search defunct product comercials for a trip down memory lane.

A very nice video, looks like everybody got a turn running the 55. Thanks for posting...John

Darn you, JD. Now you've given me the 'itch'. Thank you for the video. It's nice to see a video of a small family crew that doesn't need brand new machines to make a living. Well, maybe one brand new machine, if it even belongs to them. It's much more relaxed than a commercial crew running 12 combines and two carts and 10 trucks. There is nothing new about a new combine when it comes down to the basic way it does the job.

I think it was the last time I was on the harvest we were just south of Ogallalla Ne. cutting. I was in the service truck and one of the truckers told me there was a farmer a couple miles south cutting with this old antique John Deere. Rain clouds were coming in from the west and I really should have stayed by the field but I couldn't help myself and took off going south to see this antique combine. Sure enough there was a 95 cutting by the road. I had about one minute to watch it and the rain hit so the fun was over. I would have hitched a ride with the guy and said to heck with my responsibilities for awhile but the rain washed my hopes away. The young guys on the crew were always looking at me like there was something wrong with me when I was drooling over an old Massey super 92 or Deere 55 running somewhere. 'Why do you like that old junk'. LOL

When we were in the Oklahoma panhandle there were a couple of Deere 105's running in a field we drove by regularly. One was a gas and the other was a propane. That propane tank looked strange back there for sure. A couple of kids were running them and the story was grandpa bought these two combines to give his grandsons a summer job harvesting his wheat. They were dumping into a neat shiny old 50 year old truck with an "Oakie" box on it. I was almost hoping one of them would break down so I could run out there with the service truck to help them out. There again the crew I was dedicated to would have had to wait with their shiny big new combines because I would have been working on an 'old piece of junk'. LOL

I loved the 55 too. That was my favorite part!

Thanks for posting.........Just can't imagine that kind of farming! Beautiful.

Very nice video, best of the one's on there.

Stewart is a BTO in our neck of the woods with around 4500-5000 acres. Used to be all corn but now raises regular beans and seed corn for monsatan.

CY harvesting has fantastic videos chopping corn silage with 12 and 16 row heads and 60' windrows of haylage for 2 large MN dairies.