Neighbor gets a new grain cart

Geo-TH,In · Oct 10, 2022

Phil9N3667 · Oct 10, 2022

That's a nice one, probably holds 750 or more bushels!!

Geo-TH,In · Oct 10, 2022

The only thing I see wrong is the Color.
Everything this guy owns is JD Green.
Black and green will have to work.
Who knows, he might paint it after harvest .

Hoofer B · Oct 10, 2022

I would guess 1500 bushel

john in la · Oct 10, 2022

Looks to be a lot of ground psi as those tracks look awful small for such a big cart.

ss55 · Oct 10, 2022

Would that fill two semi trailers in one load?

big tee · Oct 10, 2022

I think it is a Unverferth brand--They had a writeup on them in the last Wallace Farmer--1100,1300,1500,2000 and 2500 bu. sizes. Can get red, green or special order black--base price starts a $278,000---Tee

Bought this one in 82--650 bu.--now it is small but son still has it--Gave $14000 for it...

Bill(Wis) · Oct 10, 2022

We get about 1100 bushels max on one semi. We have gone with more than that but don't talk about it. The 1100 bushel model (assuming their advertising is truthful) would fill up a semi but would probably pay to get one slightly larger just to make sure.

DoubleO7 · Oct 10, 2022

Are the tracks pto powered?

flying belgian · Oct 10, 2022

My renter bought a bigger one for this fall and was hoping I would run it for him. I was looking forward to it but now I'm dealing with this rotator cuff surgery.
Start pt tomorrow.

Bill(Wis) · Oct 10, 2022

It takes 5 of these heaped up to fill one semi. About 250 bushels each.

FBH44 · Oct 10, 2022

After my rotator cuff surgery, the discharge nurse sat me down, stuck her finger right into my face, said NO TRACTOR WORK, NOWORK ON IMPLEMEMNTS, NO FENCING, NO CATTLE!!!!! All I could say was Yes Mam.

big tee · Oct 10, 2022

Don't you have a special Sunday morning or late-night permit????

John M · Oct 10, 2022

Bob Harvey · Oct 10, 2022

Yikes ! That is one big tractor. What HP ?

Bill(Wis) · Oct 10, 2022

Wisconsin raises the max gross weight limits on trucks transporting farm to market at harvest time. Like now. Problem is, if you go over that raised limit your fine goes all the way back to the normal limit. At least that's the way it's been explained to me. I don't do the trucking. We have tons of guys with trucks.

K Effective · Oct 10, 2022

With the new combines holding 500 bushels of corn themselves, a cart of smaller than 1100 bushels is less efficient. Plus, being able to fill a truck with one cart load make the most of your time as well.

As to the size of the tractor, pulling a load of 75K pounds does not require that much tractor, but safely stopping that load sure does! More tractor, the better. My neighbor only uses articulated tractors on carts after folding the drawbar under a really big straight tractor with a partial load in the cart and a panic stop in traffic.

I ran a friend's cart last fall, an 850bu unit on an 8530 John Deere. The tractor weighs 27,000+/- pounds and is 330hp. The soybeans alone weigh nearly double the tractor at that point. I always felt safe on the very rural roads. Their combine is smaller, so the cart can hold multiple bin dumps and the bin can be emptied before their very hilly terrain causes spillage. Even with only one semi hauling away, efficiency is far better than a fleet of 300bu gravity wagons we used in the past.

john in la · Oct 10, 2022

That sounds normal.

Most scale masters will allow any normal truck 1000 lbs over on axle limits any day of the year.
Its called a grace weight for when you can not get the load spread just right.
But get caught 1100 lbs over and the ticket is written on what the weight should be.

caterpillar guy · Oct 10, 2022

Around here you need more cart than that to fill the trucks now. They are going to and have been for a while now using gravel trains holding close to 2000 bu each load. A set of super trains will hold about 1800 legal and can get more in if on the Sunday permit mentioned or close to the bin. I'm sure some of them could put 200,000 on gross if they wanted. Regularly haul 160,000 legal. Ours will load 14-1500 pretty easy and I have not filled it up full yet.

big tee · Oct 10, 2022

I think they are all one company--Unverferth-Brent-Kill-Bros. and J&M--Could be wrong---Tee

big tee · Oct 10, 2022

The exact same rules in Iowa--

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