How many acres?

[Guest]

Especially deep in the swamp

[sk_wheatking]

Klause would usually have some input on combine/acre/manpower
Wonder whatever happened to him.

[furrowtickler]

Ground is very dry and hard here ..... again

[Jay-mo]

It’s like half a combine extra unloading on the go. Keeps trucks off field so less compaction.

Reducing compaction, long term, the grain cart will pay for itself. On wet years, it pays for itself faster.

[woodland]

Ground is very dry and hard here ..... again

I’d gladly have sent you the last 6 inches of rain from here. We hit +27 today and the next ten days are supposed to be under +20 and the clouds are building ............ wonder how much more is coming tonight? Going to be fun in the mud for harvest here. Best harvest tool is a dryer. Anyone without one around here has been screwed before they started for the last 3 years ...... soon to be four at this rate.

Was running two TX66’s till both cratered last year and got a challenger 670 and that thing was awesome in wet and green canola swathes. There’s between 1-2,000 acres to thresh here depending on the feed situation for the cows.

[Marusko]

A grain cart would definitely be nice but then we would almost need another guy
Because we still need two tandems to keep up to that combine with the 45 ft head
Plus neither big tractor has a PTO .
So costs add up exponentially if we had to add a tractor with PTO a grain cart and another man .
We just look at it as long as the combine is moving we are not losing any time . A few more trips with the tandems but 400 to 450 bus loads are easy on the trucks and they have very quick turn around time. But again it works for us here on daily level land and close proximity to bin yards .
It is impressive to watch others with multiple combines and grain carts and semis for sure . Just not justified for our acres or manpower right now . So we improv with what we have lol

You wouldn't need another guy. Park the tandems at the entrance, one guy stays in the cart to fill the trucks and one guy hops back and forth between the trucks. It works because the trucker doesn't spend time chasing and unloading combines around the field anymore.

For fields close to home, park the truck at the auger, cart goes right to the bin. We can almost keep up to two class8 combines in a field 2 miles from home in 55bu canola in the heat of the day, 80bu wheat is a mile by road max. Cart guy needs to hustle though. 20mph if the field is smooth with no rocks and cart guy knows where the ditches are.

[STRNGR]

What has been working for us in SW Mb is 3 Lexion 760 with 40’ Macdon covering 12,000 acres, straight cutting all. Furthest land 8 miles away,main yard central, blocks of land 900-2000 acres. Start season seeding with 2 66’ drills & 60’ planter over 3 weeks at a steady pace. Start with 4000 acres HRSW, 1300 grain corn, 5500 canola , 900 soybeans & 300 oats. Harvest runs pretty steady till beans done , the corn is the dryers pace , run 1 combine 6-7 hrs to dryer 24 hrs. We update combines every 3 years, feel we are running with less down time Our work force is aging, but get along , have some fun in the process and enjoy the lifestyle of choice 👍😃

[furrowtickler]

You wouldn't need another guy. Park the tandems at the entrance, one guy stays in the cart to fill the trucks and one guy hops back and forth between the trucks. It works because the trucker doesn't spend time chasing and unloading combines around the field anymore.

For fields close to home, park the truck at the auger, cart goes right to the bin. We can almost keep up to two class8 combines in a field 2 miles from home in 55bu canola in the heat of the day, 80bu wheat is a mile by road max. Cart guy needs to hustle though. 20mph if the field is smooth with no rocks and cart guy knows where the ditches are.

We rarely, if ever get enough rains for those yields. West and north of here they do 👍👍

[bucket]

What has been working for us in SW Mb is 3 Lexion 760 with 40’ Macdon covering 12,000 acres, straight cutting all. Furthest land 8 miles away,main yard central, blocks of land 900-2000 acres. Start season seeding with 2 66’ drills & 60’ planter over 3 weeks at a steady pace. Start with 4000 acres HRSW, 1300 grain corn, 5500 canola , 900 soybeans & 300 oats. Harvest runs pretty steady till beans done , the corn is the dryers pace , run 1 combine 6-7 hrs to dryer 24 hrs. We update combines every 3 years, feel we are running with less down time Our work force is aging, but get along , have some fun in the process and enjoy the lifestyle of choice 👍😃

Oh boy those lexions are quite the machine....

I seen 6 deeres come into the Lexion dealer and 4 Lexions left....that much more efficient????

What is your opinion of them....

[furrowtickler]

Oh boy those lexions are quite the machine....

I seen 6 deeres come into the Lexion dealer and 4 Lexions left....that much more efficient????

What is your opinion of them....

Simple answer, yes they are
Lots around here