16 rows at a time!

big tee · Dec 11, 2019

A good friend from the other side of town was running corn yesterday on a 160 he rents across the road from me. A nice guy who farms quite a bit of ground with his lovely wife, Son and Son in-law. Runs mostly Deere except for his tillage tractors-red-real nice equipment. I went over with a little cooler and some Pepsi and a couple of Silver Bullets and rode around with him. He runs 2 Deere S-690's combines but had just the one running yesterday-2 carts and ? semis. Impressive--like a Swiss watch---Tee

Plants 32 rows at a time.

Picks 16 at a time. His Wife runs 1 of the carts-Holds 1300 bu!

Does not take long to fill a 400 bu. combine hopper.

He had both of his knees replaced this Spring/Summer but had to quit early to ref a BB game. We did not drink the Silver Bullets!---Tee

The view from the cab---Tee

teddy52food · Dec 11, 2019

My land has bad rolling hills & as such I don't think that equipment would work right.

55 50 Ron · Dec 11, 2019

Nice photos. Thanks for posting. I always think of Iowa land as pretty flat, but this looks like gently rolling.

cumminspuller · Dec 11, 2019

I road with a customer a couple of years ago in a S680 with 16 row. That is a LOT of material going into a machine at one time.

DR. EVIL · Dec 11, 2019

You get up north and west of Dubuque and it's VERY rolling, almost like the Smokey Mountains.

Stoneman44 · Dec 11, 2019

I used to visit Guthrie Center, Stuart and Winterset when I worked for an egg producer. The hills around there reminded me of good ol' Southern Indiana. The first time I visited, I was quite surprised, because I too assumed it was flat.

jddrawbar · Dec 11, 2019

Great photos.....thanks for posting.

4520BW · Dec 11, 2019

Sounds like you work for the one real
close to me. I am about a mile from cort
acres.

caterpillar guy · Dec 11, 2019

I would probably get hung up on a pole trying to use that thing . Would be fun to watch though. Every round on the one field of my brothers would be about 9 acres. 4.59 acres per pass.

Stoneman44 · Dec 11, 2019

(quoted from post at 10:59:31 12/11/19) Sounds like you work for the one real
close to me. I am about a mile from cort
acres.

Yep, worked there from '05 to '07. I don't miss it a bit!

Hopefully you're on the upwind side of that place! But I think you told me before, you're toward Peter's Switch, right?

Cmore · Dec 11, 2019

What?s ?running? corn??
Looks like he was shelling corn to me.

big tee · Dec 11, 2019

Running-doing, picking, shelling--all the same---

big tee · Dec 11, 2019

We have some 3/4 mi. rows--would be 7.2 acres per round---Tee

3/4 mi. rows--Before our Son took over--My ol 8820 and 650bu. cart--thought I really had something!---Tee

4520BW · Dec 11, 2019

Ya right on top of the big hill. Most of
the time you never know it there unless
there irrigating the wash water, now back
when I was a kid it smelled bad. They
would spread liquid crap on dads fields
and that was awful.

gab · Dec 11, 2019

There's a farmer a couple miles west of me that covers a lot of ground. He's got all big JD stuff and three semis and two big carts hauling, been working for two or three weeks weather permitting east. East, N. east, and south east. It's fun to watch. Semis start rolling past about ten in the morning and they quit about 10 or 1030 at night. Dryer years the combine is followed by a big dueled up Jd pulling some kind of big chiseled/disc/drag contraption but I've only seen him doing that to one field this year.
Lp guy told me the other day he's been hauling about 3000 gal. a day to his dryer.

jeffcat · Dec 11, 2019

jeffcat · Dec 11, 2019

Humph....posted the picture and not the post??? When I was in my early teens we had a 34 John Deeder chopper with a single head and ran it with a 450 IH. Today's machines I just cannot imagine running that much volume of stuff through them and even how fast they are going. Blows your mind.

daisyman · Dec 11, 2019

Whereabouts in Iowa is that? I live down in the south central part. Been a city slicker since "65", but helped a friend of mine haul in corn and field work after I retired.
Irv

Butch(OH) · Dec 11, 2019

Its run'en to me also Big tee

1206SWMO · Dec 11, 2019

Nice pics...My renter and his Dad had 1900 acres of corn this year...They did it all with one 8
row corn on a 9770 JD,3 semis, and 1 grain cart....They have another 9770 with a 8 row corn
head and another grain cart but seldom use them as they just cant keep the corn hauled away..

A neighbor runs a 12 row head but has trouble keeping the corn hauled away....I cant think of any
16 row corn heads in my area...About 35 miles away I know of a 18 row 20" corn head....Its takes
lots of rear weight to hold it down..My brother does some mechanic work for him and drove the S-670
once and going over a terrace the back end came up and stayed...He had to back up to get it back down..

Frank 41 · Dec 11, 2019

Were those 20" rows? Most guys around here run 12 20s. I wonder if he had any trouble shearing unloading auger bolts. They work if you slow down to start them. I hear the red ones can shut off the horizonal augers in the tank to start them, $2800 option.

big tee · Dec 11, 2019

Fayette County---Tee

big tee · Dec 11, 2019

They use two different dryer set-ups-one is near a natural gas pipe-line and got used the most for the other one is on LP and that is a sore subject--Wait-Wait for a load. You can dump a whole load at each setting and they both have very large holding bins--See ya in Tulsa 1206???---Tee

1206SWMO · Dec 11, 2019

If things go right I'm planning on being at Inola on Friday Jan 24th....My MIL that had the stroke
right before the pull this past January is just about done for...They are starting Hospice tomorrow..

flying belgian · Dec 11, 2019

That just does not look like a 450 to me. Looks like a 3020 J.D.

big tee · Dec 12, 2019

WOW--God be with you and your family---Tee

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