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Bill(Wis)

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I had really good conditions for combining this year and was able to snap a few pictures.
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I have two of these J&M 620 grain carts which fill up one semi (1100-1200 bushels.
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But, I still have the old "Wagon Train" available if needed. These 5 gravity wagons will also fill up one grain semi.
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Bill it does indeed look like a perfect day for shelling corn. Do you recall what day it was you took those pictures in the field?
 
Our tractor club up here takes off some barley and oats every year, some of the oat bundles we store over the winter and thresh at our annual pull the next August. This year we had pretty good results ....
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Yes, but only because I jotted it down on my farm calendar. That was Saturday, 31 October. A beautiful fall day. Six loads went out that day with test weights of 54.9, 56.8, 55.2, 55.7, 54.1 and 54.4. Moisture was in the 20% range. All of my corn went to the ethanol plant west of Oshkosh.
 
That's better than riding a grain binder and then shocking everything up, then pitching bundles on wagons then pitching them off into the machine and then carrying the grain, a bag at a time, to the granary. I remember those times :)>))
 
You are definitely color diverse! What brand is the tractor with the cab on the red cart? Do you also own the semis or are they hired guns? Has your farm been in the family a while, were you dairy at one time? Probably would know if I looked back at the silo post. Thanks for posting the pics!
 
The main farm was purchased by my grandfather and grandmother on April 1st, 1901 and then more farms were added as they became available. Dairy farm for 67 years. Red Tractor is a CaseIH Maxxum 125. The "Value" model. Got a good deal on it because it was coming off from a loan arrangement to the VoTech Ag college in Rhinelander. Had 39 hours on it. Case IH had a free loader program going then. I wanted another just like it but the CaseIH dealer was so screwed up that they couldn't find the one they said they had. I turned my back on them and bought a John Deere 6125M with all kinds of options. Loader mount. 14 front weights, premium hydraulic package, cast wheels, bar axles, radial tires, rim guard,etc. I got a pretty good deal on it as it had been leased out as a snowmobile grooming tractor for one winter but never sold. JD dealer made the best deal he could and then got another $4000 off by financing it with John Deere. Paid it all off right after and I'm happy with it. I like the Case cab a lot better. The JD cab is quieter, however. On the Nebraska tests they were identically matched tractors but with the extra weight the John Deere pulls slightly better. Those grain carts, fully loaded, go about 22 tons.
 
So will the open station KUBOTA pull the 5 loaded out to the hard surface road. We would get run out of the country if we tried to sell 20% corn out of the field. Have to get it dry and bin it to sell the the distillers of that good drinking stuff.
 
Yes, how well I remember. We used to play practical jokes. Greased steering wheels, crossed spark plug wires, Old Fritz would put on his drunk act. He carried water in a beer bottle and would open the petcocks on his John Deere and pull up to the threshing machine drinking out of the beer bottle going every which way, tractor hissing and pissing.
 
There's no drying at an ethanol plant. It goes right into the mash as is. We get paid for dry bushels, though. That Kubota tractor will pull two wagons full but be careful in the field. On the road, no problem, but go slow. It'll be 20 years old this coming year and does more work than those other two tractors combined. Still on the original battery.
 
good for you,only difference in my territory that 6 r0w head and series combine do not see much anymore,mostly all 12 row heads and 16 row units,carts are majority over 1100 bus units, just way it is . me i have cash rented all ground out and have several hundred in crp program.i own case ih maxum also yet.. biggest change to me has been profit every year now instead of some years,thats way farm always been . last combine i looked at the otherday was over 900,000.00
 
What a difference a year makes! Last year I didn't start harvest until Nov. Wet, light corn. This year I finished in Oct. Heavy, dry corn. My cart holds a similar amount. I pull it with a 7240 Magnum MFWD dualed and ballasted. There's quite a hill in my driveway, and it chews when fully loaded!
 
I didn't mean to give the impression that I'm a mega-farmer. I number acres in hundreds, not thousands, and at my age, 84, I do not aspire to get any larger. Some of my fields are small so the 6 row fits a little better but I probably will go 12 row next. Your remark about profit made me laugh because I'm not trying to make a profit but I'm not a playboy farmer either. Everything gets paid for and the money I have left gets spent on the farm. Not always on equipment. I have a few land improvement projects going and I nearly traded combines this year. Dealer had a new New Holland CR8.90 that listed for $760000 (I think) for sale for $386k. That would be more than I would need but I was waiting to see if it sold. Combining was pretty well finished back in November and I was just about to go in and see what kind of a deal I could really get but they sold it that week. Someone else had the same idea. They have another one but it's only 2 wheel drive so I'll pass on that one. John Deere has a new combine that lists for $1000000. It would take 7 semis to keep up with its output if the elevator was 15 miles away. I do not ever want to get into that kind of farming because it leaves you just managing things. Although, my friends do. The two of them farm 5000 acres, all grain, and they own two combines and seven semis. As it is, I do just about everything. I stopped pulling those fertilizer buggies around when I started doing GPS based soil tests. I don't do any spraying either. Cooperative comes out with a Patriot sprayer with a 90' boom (that's their small one) and I just watch. I do all the rest.
 
Just curious, with a left hand binder do you need left hand threshing machine? Left hand combines required a left hand swather. ;>)
 
2 Late ..... not sure but I'm going to find out ..... LOL !!! Seriously, is that a left-handed binder (meaning there is also a right-handed type)?
 
Wagons can be driven up on either side of the feeder tray depending on your layout. Sometimes the machine will be parked with buildings on one side. The bundle pitchers pitch the bundles onto the feeder tray so the heads go in first. You'll notice that the butts of the bundles are pointing to the outside of the wagon. Heads to the middle. Prevents grain loss in transport.
 
Thanks for sharing.

The pictures remind me of ones my Grandfather would take before he retired. He was a dairy farmer until '86, then did grain and custom work until he retired in the early '00s. Most of that time it was him and my Uncle doing all the work. They had a similar sized grain cart. I remember them saying fill the cart and fill the combine (9500 JD) and that made a semi load. Grandad also said if you could keep a guy in the cart running, so the combine never stopped, it was like having another 1/4 - 1/3 of a combine. That always stuck with me.
 
Some of my friends use an 850 cart plus the combine hopper to do what you're saying and it works quite well. When Lady Luck is riding high, my combine never stops. We auger off onto the cart on the go. I've never developed enough confidence to take pictures while doing this. Reminds me of helicopter formation flying although this is just two dimensional. Then, at other times: Two carts and a combine full, waiting. Truck had a flat tire.
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Fifty years ago, I did lawn work and snow removal for Carl. He had had a few heart attacks and his wife would not allow him to do the work by himself anymore. At lunch time, he would reminisce about the old times. About the threshing crews that moved through the neighborhoods and the feasts that the women prepared for the men. Always with a smile and a cheerfulness that spoke volumes all by itself.
 
Oh my God, the food. The tables sagged under the weight of it. Those farm women would all try to outdo each other. I remember my mother and my aunt with some help from my grandmother put on meals that had everything.
 
I like that helicopter formation analogy! I can imagine.

And yes, the waiting on trucks was always a problem. When my Uncle took over things then, in later years, he grew tired of sitting waiting on trucks. So he bought a semi and started building bins. I helped build 2 of them, which was fun. Then of course he needed another guy for in the truck, and so on....
 
F-30 on the belt, We'd get two loads of bundles. one with the H, one with the team, Pull the H on the right and the team on the left 'cause if you put the team on the right, they'd try to eat the grain out of the wagon. Grampa was still thrashing in'61 when I went in service
 
That sounds about right. I remember 1961. I had gotten out of the Army and joined the National Guard. Got called up for the Berlin Crisis in 1961.
 
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