1989 Harvest in Sask

rusty6 · Jan 14, 2021

Some video from fellow youtuber Deeredon showing how he harvested durum wheat back in 1989. 800 JD swather, 6620 combine.
Durum harvest 89

GreenEnvy · Jan 14, 2021

Great video. We grow durum too and so do other guys. Those JD 800 swathers were popular here. 6620s not so much. Farms must have been generally smaller in your area because the 4400 was considered too small of a combine and the 6620 almost too small.

rusty6 · Jan 14, 2021

(quoted from post at 18:22:07 01/14/21) Great video. We grow durum too and so do other guys. Those JD 800 swathers were popular here. 6620s not so much. Farms must have been generally smaller in your area because the 4400 was considered too small of a combine and the 6620 almost too small.

I would say the 7720 was the most common size here. Very few of the big 8820s.

BillinCentralMO · Jan 14, 2021

That was interesting. The swathers are still widely used in your area for wheat ?

rusty6 · Jan 14, 2021

(quoted from post at 19:51:39 01/14/21) That was interesting. The swathers are still widely used in your area for wheat ?

Not much anymore. I rarely swath wheat. Wait for it to ripen and then straight cut. Bigger farmers will dessicate their wheat with herbicide to speed up and even out the ripening. Then straight cut. Not sure how much longer that will work as people might not like the thought of the wheat being sprayed so close to harvest time.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 14, 2021

Would probably have been an easier job for his wife to drive around in that nice new combine , than driving the grain truck.

jddrawbar · Jan 15, 2021

Interesting video and that looks to a really good crop he was harvesting. You have shown videos of this farmer in the past and can tell he knew what he was doing. I would bet he was very successful. Thanks for posting

Paul from MI · Jan 15, 2021

I ran a 6620 for a neighbor a few years ago. Good machine, never had one speck of trouble with it and a whole lot bigger than my old Allis 60 pull type.

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