Posted by caterpillar guy on October 10, 2010 at 20:01:34 from (66.188.53.165):
In Reply to: Combine acres posted by Nebraska Cowman on October 10, 2010 at 13:47:08:
Well when I ran with a harvest crew back in the nineties,I worked for a guy with 10 9600"s we put about 12hrs on the meter per day and around 1500 hours on per year.They were traded every year. We ran 2 1240 Kinze carts and 1 840 cart. We would split the machines up into as many as 3 crews depending on the size of the job and how far apart they were. We pulled the cars with a 4955,876 blue Versatile and a 1360 Steiger. We had 5 tandems with pups and 5 regular semis to keep up. The key is to not let the combines get full before you dump them. We also figured we ran over about 30,000 acres. This included Wheat,Corn,Barley,Milo,Sunflowers,beans and some peas. We started Memorial weekend in Munday TX and went through OK,KS,CO,SD,WY,ID,CO,NE,MS,KS. I would start about March getting equipment ready and be ready to leave the end of May for TX. I would get home for Thanksgiving each year. Some years we could cut between 25 and 28 days a month. One year we sat for 10days straight over by Dallas TX for rain. We would end the season in CO,KS,NE,and MS with Milo,Corn,and Soybeans. Some of the different heads were rented for the particular crop and some the farmer owned and some he owned. The pickup heads he owned for the southern Barley (San Louis Valley CO)Some of the corn heads were owned by him and some by the farmer. The Flex heads were rented or leased for the beans in MS. Now if you cut a 100acres per machine per day on 30bu wheat on 3 12"s we figured we made money. Now this was almost 20years ago and things have changed. The 3 12"s were 12dollars per acre then 12 cents trucking to the elevator up to a certain distance then 12 cents per bu for the extra 10bu per acre. In MT and SD we would cut for $10.00 flat without a contract and $9.00 with a contract.He always got paid so it was done without a contract.ID was figured differntly yet I think something like 18-20dollars flat and they hauled it with spud trucks of they"re own. That was Irrigated wheat making about 100bu and always down flat. 30ft head moved at 1/2-11/2 mile per hour speed.some was sprinkler and some corrugated. Since I haven"t done it since 1992 I don"t know what the rate is now. Hope this sheds some light on it for you. Hail is the reason for getting done so quickly.
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