Chopping at some FAST ground speeds!!!

JD Seller · Sep 5, 2016

I like watching fellows harvesting crops. This is a video of chopping some short corn. The fellow running this chopper is REALLY GOOD!!! He is switching trucks at speeds that are amazing. This video is in real time. It is not sped up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvI5x_mwvk
Fast chopping

jeremy in NE · Sep 5, 2016

Wow they are moving. I bet they have worked together a while.

RusselAZ · Sep 5, 2016

Fantastic. I don't see how that is even possible, the brute horsepower it has to take to do that! And how long it keeps blowing in the truck after coming off the end. Sure beats a one row corn binder, then shocking, then picking up and hauling to the silo to the chopper and blower.

Beautiful country also.

Dick2 · Sep 6, 2016

My nephew hires a professional like that. They are scheduled to chop his corn on the 20th of this month. The owner complains that getting and keeping truck drivers is a constant problem. I see those big machines around here quite often.

kito169 · Sep 6, 2016

They run the choppers at speeds like that here but they stop to change trucks. The choppers are out of Kansas and the drivers are from New Zeeland. It's cool to watch.

gtractorfan · Sep 6, 2016

Got to hurry and get 'er done before rain and muddy fields, not so smooth then. Also no doubt the chopper is on auto steer so the driver can concentrate on the chute.

1970-1655 · Sep 6, 2016

I have seen an operation like that here in Indiana last year. It will make you pull off the road and watch. I cannot imagine the cost per minute of down time if something breaks, or a truck is late getting in line.

You can usually see the GPS dome on the roof for auto steer but I did not see one in the video. Wow!

paul · Sep 6, 2016

While there are a couple real big dairies on the other end of my county, don't see anything like that around me.

Rolling hills, would be fun to keep that big a header in corn and not in dirt, as well as keeping the spout aimed anywhere close as you rock side to side at those speeds.

This year, the thought of getting a semi into a field is humorous, would never get it out again as we are in our 15th or so flood watch of the year. Our clayish and peat soils struggle to hold up and offer traction to heavy equipment on a dry year. The sweet corn pickers are shuttling dump carts to the roads and dumping on the road to the tricks. Again. As they do most years. And they are 20 miles away in lighter soil, the set corn folk learned to stay away from our rolling clayish hills.....

My neighbor is big time with a 4 row self propelled Deere chopper for his dairy. Another neighbor chops a lot of alfalfa and corn with a similar size machine for his dairy heifer feeding operation. Going to be a tough year for them to get the bunker and bags full in this slop. Should be go time in a week, we are in a flood watch through Wednesday, with more rain forecast Friday and Monday as well.....

Interesting video.

Paul

ditchwitch · Sep 6, 2016

Its not the first time they have done that,thats for sure. That was a great video. Thats what you call getting the job done. Theres no grass growing under those guys feet.

Gambles · Sep 6, 2016

As a kid, I remember cutting silage with a high-compressioned John Deere G and a single-row New Holland cutter. Packing the open silo was with a John Deere A. I was always the person to hold up the trailer tongue and drop in the pin to hook up the replacement silage wagon. It took about a month, working at it part time, to get all the silage cut. Times have really changed.

showcrop · Sep 6, 2016

That's how the farm where I hung out as a kid does it now. They have 1100 acres of corn, two big Krones with kemper heads, and around 15 ten wheeler trucks, They build their own trucks for the most part, one a year. Thy don't stop to change trucks, and in a wet year they will have a big FWD tractor with a big tire on the front following the trucks around to give them a little help if they start to spin. It is on my bucket list to drive a truck for silo filling. It looks like one of the toughest parts is to figure out which way to head when coming into the field with an empty truck. The chopper operator must have to direct them by radio.

Donald Lehman · Sep 6, 2016

Neat watching them cutting with a 12 row head and then watching the Amish chopping two rows with an 8 horse hitch, then watching someone cutting with a single row head.

Those guys were chopping at least 10-12 mph weren't they?

Bob Harvey · Sep 6, 2016

Wow, that is impressive ! I would guess they are feeding a LOT of critters.

JMS/.MN · Sep 6, 2016

I"m surprised how green the corn is, if it is short due to drouth stress.My diesel tech son worked for 10 years for a JD "Focus" dealer- servicing the SP choppers in several states. He said JD went to an 800 hp engine on their biggest ones, not because it needed that much power, but to get away from tier IV requirements. Usual annual service was around 13 grand and up.

Doug Wilkins · Sep 6, 2016

Just finished 4th cutting haylage with our old chopper and started corn with the replacement. 10 rows at a time with 800hp. It will move some material in a hurry!

Doug Wilkins · Sep 6, 2016

Pic of the replacement

Traditional Farmer · Sep 6, 2016

Wonder if they can run fast enough to stay ahead of the repo man?

showcrop · Sep 6, 2016

(quoted from post at 11:17:04 09/06/16) Just finished 4th cutting haylage with our old chopper and started corn with the replacement. 10 rows at a time with 800hp. It will move some material in a hurry!

What's in the tank? Urea?

gbs · Sep 6, 2016

first time I was able to watch a 3 row jd self propelled in action they were hauling the silage less than a 1/10 mile with 3 wagons and he was sitting waiting on every wagon and the man's son said they wanted a 4 row machine,first chopper I saw with the style header he is using in the video was a claas, shop owners wife said that thing gave her the willies every time they brought in for service she said in decent corn it would load a semi in under 8 minutes and moving that amount of material a person didn't stand a chance if caught in it,far cry from an m farmall and a 1 row gehl

Doug Wilkins · Sep 7, 2016

No it is filled with water. We monitor the dry matter content via the display in the cab and inject water accordingly. Also there for possible fire prevention as we have had a chopper burn to the ground in the past. We keep a gasoline operated pump mounted on the dolly with enough hose to reach the head in case something decides to ignite. The knives are sharpened every day with the onboard sharpener so we have to keep the machine blown off as much as possible to keep the sparks from igniting anything.

oldtanker · Sep 7, 2016

Saw an operation like that a few years ago between Casselton and Minot ND. They were running 5 semis and those trucks were really moving to keep up. Going past the farm you could see two 4X4s with blades pushing the copped corn into the bunker. Was an impressive thing to watch.

Rick

gtractorfan · Sep 7, 2016

Watched it again, at the 5:12 minute mark in the video the truck is full and the next one's not there. Must have had to STOP and WAIT. Video jumps beyond and doesn't show the waiting.

4520BW · Sep 7, 2016

Does that one have the 19 Liter cummins in it?

Doug Wilkins · Sep 7, 2016

yes I believe it does.

blue924.9 · Sep 7, 2016

(quoted from post at 10:22:43 09/07/16) Does that one have the 19 Liter cummins in it?

Yes it does, 832hp

4520BW · Sep 7, 2016

The qsk19 was the first engine program I worked on when I started at cummins 20 years ago.

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