3 Krone Big X Choppers, 2,225 Horse Power, 30 Rows of Corn, 2018 Corn Crop
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- See 2,225 horse power chop a swath of 75 feet of corn and fill 6 ten ton trucks in 8 minutes. This Big Tractor Power video features to 750 horse power Krone Big X V12 forage harvesters powered by Mercedes engines and a 725 hp Krone Big X 700 powered by a MAN engine. See and hear these big machines chop the 2018 corn crop 10 rows at a time.
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It's truly awesome to see and watch videos like this..👊😎..for sure don't see farming like this in the south
Thank you for watching. What part of the South are you located in? This was filmed in Kentucky 20 miles from Tennesse.
@@bigtractorpower I live in northeast alabama...Stevenson..not much farm life..nothing big anyways..use to be dairy farms..no longer exist..some row crop farming..small cattle farms..not like it use to 15+ years ago
Those row independent heads are cool and once again a forage chopping video that brings back so many memories
Riding through the field lopsided on 3 corners that brings me back
I'm always amazed how well those Krone Forage Harvesters clear a corn field. Great Video.
They are impressive machines. They do a good job.
The sound of those diesels working is pretty impressive. I can definitely understand the need for the power. Most guys I know pull a 2 row chopper with at least 100hp
I hope to film some more pull types this season.
BTP you have done it again! i love the cab veiw's its awsome to look at it from a operators veiw point
Thank you for watching. I like getting up in the cab to show what it looks like.
Great Video NTP, thanks for sharing
A pet peeve of mine is seeing a perfectly cleared field having a stalk or several stalks of corn still standing haha. I'd strive for perfection and go back and chop any stalks still standing.
MMID303 not only that but not watching the spout going too fast and blowing silage on the ground.
Neat video! I love the old Ford trucks in this video. They were probably made at the Westport Rd plant in Louisville back in the late 80s or early 90s.
Watching that beautiful flag raise with the boom at 6:20 may have been the most exciting thing in this video. Well done.
Great video as always...I could watch this all day..good job
Thank you. I appreciate you watching them.
Good and interesting video. Here the corn harvest has also started...but it's 2 months too early (normaly end september begin october in this region). We've had too much drought this year, the plants are already dying and there's no choice but to harvest it already.
Always hate to hear about a drought. It really hurts Forage. We had a drought in 2012 and they had to start chopping here on July 4. Corn combines were rolling in July 20. Farms double cropped soybeans after corn that year. They combined the beans around Thanksgiving and got 35 to 45 bushels.
50 years ago it was 1 row at a time !
I remember one rows. My neighbor had a one row Hesston chopper in the 70’s. Pulled it with a Ford 9000. There New Idea corn picker was a 2 row. Always wondered why the chopper was not a two row as the 9000 could Handel it.
We had a Claas Jaguar 25 . 😉
50 years, more like 10. At least in Germany these kind of choppers first came out with the Biogas-plants.
KRONE...Best of Germany...Second Place in Germany it 's Claas...Greets from West Germany
Krone builds good machines.
Great video that is farming at an incredible scale. That's a very good looking crop
It’s neat to see these big machines running together.
I worked for a custom chopper that ran three John Deeres with ten row heads had 4 truck to each chopper to keep the chopper moving if the truck goes up and down the road every day that was a good truck no matter the make, color, or year. Opening up a field meant you had to wash windshield more than usual and driving blind behind the chopper which meant when the field gets muddy and you get stuck and corn silage get on the window. Oh the days, how i miss field work.
It’s neat seeing the chopper open the field. It takes allot of coordination. Keep the windows rolled up. 😄
bigtractorpower so true.
Or the ass will blow it on your windshield on purposes
Love the info . I am learning so much from your channel thank you 👍👍
Thank you. I am glad you enjoy the information. I enjoy sharing it.
Very informative video. thankyou.
Thank you for watching.
Enjoyed the video a lot. Thanks for the great explanations also.
Glad you liked it. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Impressive !
Like the flag on top of the spout :)
Thanks for watching. I like the flag too.
Why do you put a flag on top?
Patriotism, proud to be American ?
kladpapier yeah only you Americans do that
At least they do it all the time, not only when their team performs well at football WC ...
Love the videos as always, keep up the great work Jason.
10 tons every 2 mins and the field is making 22 tons/acre. They're gonna get done before they even get going good! 😂 That's a bit faster than the old 1100 Massey pulling the 2 row chopper on the farm where I grew up! Nice video!
They move along. My neighbor in the 70’s had a ‘76 IH 1066 and a 2 row NH 892 and 3 Lamco Forage boxes. It would take a week to chop a field or two. Then they got a big 4 row NH 1600 pulled by a Case 4690 4wd and a DuAl Dump Wagon. That sped up chopping but nothing like these Krones.
Impressive, that its also some well grown corn!
Very informative video awesome!
Thank you for watching.
That's harvest at it's finest & fastest ;-)
It’s a cool harvest team.
Absolutely very impressive.
They are neat to watch.
Enjoy your features very much but where is the grade of corn produced for human consumption? Thank you
I understand the HP n why but when I think of a chopper filling a silo we always used125hp pto tractor. That blew it 80’ vertical which we all know is a lot of head foot to push material. So it is impressive the HP is that high on these rigs. We chopped corn at the silo in full stalked bundles.
Chopping at the silo goes way back. I have Papec brochures on ensilers for the silo. 125 hp at the silo can work because you are feeding bundles in kind of like a wood chipper. Nice steady rate. These sp choppers are cutting 25ft of 14ft crop pushing it into the feeder at 5 mph and chopping it. This chopper cuts up 10 tons of silage in 2 minutes. How many tons could an ensiler chop in 2 minutes? Thank you for sharing. If I could film an ensiler it would be a great find. What tractor and ensiler did you run?
How many trucks does it take to keep up? 9 or 12?
Very impressive sight. I love that no stop truck change!
I that that hat trick move of shooting over to the next truck. I think there are at least 9 trucks rolling to keep them going.
That's some impressive corn. Must be irrigated or it was a perfect year for corn. And I haven't seen corn like that in Michigan where I live without irrigation. The last 3 farms I have worked on, irrigated.
It is non irrigated. It produces about 25 tons to the acre. .
@@bigtractorpower sweet. That is awesome. Can't complain about that.
Impressive on this farm !!!
It’s a neat chopping operation.
wonderful video
Glad you liked it. Thank you for watching.
That's a ton of horsepower operating out there. Do they typically replace the choppers the way some operations in your area upgrade tractors and combines every year?
Or you can tell by the starch in the ear. Awesome video btp cant wait to start chopping here at the end of aug in the nm tx state line area with 2 nh fr850
Very cool. The FR is a chopper I want to film. I have an FX58 video on the way.
bigtractorpower cant wait! Ill post some videos of our harvest
Dang. All choppered straight piped as well??? That would be a lot of lovely rumblin.
The two V12s are straight piped the 700 is not. A muffler collects to much heat under the side panels so they found straight pipes let the heat out.
Great video
Thank you for watching and commenting.
8:59 Red truck.
Runs so much better then deere
They are impressive.
About 5yearz ago we switched from deere to case ih and these kind krone choppers best thing we could have done
Awesome video, that was great to watch, is that corn a special cultivar just for cow food or is it for human consumption as well should you like to do it
This corn is silage only for cows. I will do a video on the kinds of corn later this year. I need to film some blue corn this fall and I think showing that with feed, sweet, yellow and white corn will make an interesting video.
Thanks You
this is maize which is for animals , corn is what humans eat. maize also grows at least twice as high as corn
are those guys custom chopping or does the farm own them?
next week fair oaks indiana we will be starting got 6 new 980 jags 498 series auto fill and autosteer if your in the area
Wow that is impressive. I would like to see that. Could you email me at contact@bigtractorpower.com
You have to pay the price to get it chopped fast. that's where farmers are going wrong these days.... and they complain about profits.
Damed if you do, Damed if you don't. Farming now days is forced into a quantity over quality mindset. Prices keep dropping and expenses keep growing.
Taking the corn down in a hurry. The packing crew is going to get a workout keeping up with the 3 choppers.
Yes sir. The packing crew is a McCormick X8, CIH MX285 and JD 6715.
A single row AC corn silage chopper took a 45 horsepower tractor to operate and could only creep along in 1st gear and would often have to stop its forward progress to allow the silage chopper to process the corn. I am not at all surprised that it takes so much power to process ten rows of corn at the speed at which this is being processed. Is this a different variety of corn than one that is being used for grain?
Great history. There are different varieties of corn just corn silage use. When I was growing up farms normally chopped the lowering preforming fields for the year. It was random. Today it’s very focused and all about the best yield for silage.
Nice video
Nice Video!! Hope John Deere 8600 Comming on Next Time!!
It is. It’s much more complex to narrate. That video will also cover the sorghum planting and there’s just a lot to talk about and it’s taking longer to produce than I expected.
I got a Krone big X ad before watchind this
That was good product placement for Krone. Thanks for sharing.
That's cutting a swath
filling 6 lorries a minute is fine but when it arrives at the yard at the same time it causes no end of problems
They have more than just these trucks running and two different pits they are unloading at with three blade tractors running so it’s no issue keeping up with the crop flowing in.
Impressive machinery. Each plant has much bulk however these machines make it look easy. The heads have a sinister look to them like fangs. I thought the chopped corn went into silos, not bunkers or am i wrong. Thanks & god bless BTP
Mark Stengel it does but I think the amount of corn they are cutting would overwhelm a silo , I think that’s why the bigger farms use bunkers
Glad you liked them. The EasyCollect stands out. I hope to film a 14 row some day. You can put silage in a bunk or silo. A silo is slower so for this many machines a bunk makes sense. My video earlier this week showed the bunk being filled with the Case IH Mx285 and JD 6715 tractors packing the silage. The fact of 3 choppers filling it did not fit that narrative so I only showed the one machine. I will show a silo farm this month.
That corn is too green for a silo. Either have to be fed soon or stored in a bunker I should think.
Ok...Hope this question isn't too silly...Most of the farms in PA (that I've seen) run the Claas 900-960 series with the V6 Mercedes Diesel.
But the 970-980 have the 12 cyl MAN diesels.. And the KRONE Big X 1100 has a MAN 12 cyl engine.
So my question is: what is MAN?? TY
The M A N engine is built in Europe. They also build a line of heavy duty trucks.
Sounds good... Thank you for info!!
Nice, And one more reason why they need so much power and are so big is sometime these big guy have to harvest in MUD! I've seen em do it on other videos and its not pretty
Very true. We are lucky here that harvest is often in the dry of summer. In 20 years I have not seen silage mudded out here. Plus sorghum is double cropped behind the choppers so they need a smooth surface to no till in. I do like watching muddy chopping videos like Mike Less YouTibe has filmed with choppers and dump carts.
why not cut out the middle man and have the USDA send the checks directly to the custom choppers and combiners. Most farmers now live in town and manage the farm from an office. Hired workers live on the farm.
Not the ones I know and film at.
In Europe we chop with 8 to 14 rows and it’s always with 1chopper for 1or 2 days of harvest but in the US can’t they use the 14rows from Krone? Because I know that a lot of farmers there harvest for a couple of days
Chopping season is 10-14 days here. The 8 row is the most common in Western Kentucky. A 14 row would be awesome to see but I think with some of the hills these choppers get into the 10 row is as wide as they want to get to follow the field contour.
This is cool....... I chop with a 3 row JD 3960 pull type it takes a minute...LOL
Very cool. What do you run your 3960 with?
bigtractorpower ..This year we are in severe drought North Missouri so corn is poor and 4440 could handle it..But, a 180 horse is more ideal...
bigtractorpower another great video. do you folks have an issue with people trespassing and planting illegal crops in western KY? it's a real headache for us in northeast ohio sometimes. they tend to leave a lot of debris some of it is metal stakes and tomato cages.
Bob La'Blah hahaha....illegal crops!!! Just sounds funny to me I guess!
As in MJ ....?
You know about 18 years ago there were some issues with that but with the military base here there are allot of helicopters in the air all the time. Pretty hard to hide anything in a field.
Why is there a small H&S silage cardt
How much fuel does 1 of those machines burn in an hr. Sure can see those machines running wide open and under good load
Andrej Pavlovets 100-200 litres a hour
I've noticed that every once in awhile I see Krone with the side panel open. Do they have over-heating problem ?
It’s the muffler. It collects to much heat under the panel of the 700. The v12 had similar issues. They straight piped the V12s and no more heat issue.
Does Krone machines run hot? Why are the engine bay doors open?
The mufflers do make them run hot. You might notice two are straight piped. It’s lets the heat out.
I've seen class choppers run with engine panels open too
Another good video.Is this a custom job?
This is a custom cutter. Thank you for watching.
All that corn is making that dog bark.
It puts the machines to work.
Does the farm own all three of these harvesters
Lucas' Account it’s a guy that does custom chopping for different people and I think he leases them
My boss leases his out when we arent chopping hes got 8 he own and lease from them another 5
Im not with these guys live in Washington the stat
No
I use to pull a two row chopper. It’s not the same.
Forage harvesters have changed a bunch over the years. I remember a farm near me running a 1 row Hesston.
Ryan Smith super
How many G.P.R.of diesel are these things EATING B.T.P.?.(I'm guessing about 20 gallons per hour if not more)
That’s a good question. I do not know. I will ask next time I film them.
bigtractorpower I hope that you can film the Krone 1,000 hp.version one day soon,that would be very interesting.
We had one chop for us, 46.5 GPH. I suppose it varies depending on how good the crop is, etc
Are they taking the corn plant as well as the ears of corn....if so why????
Yes in this process the entire plant is harvested to feed cows. If you watch this forage harvesting video I made it shows the process from the field to the cow. See the video at m.ua-cam.com/video/k8bcPwTKJvM/v-deo.html
Thanks for the video. I don't know why they can't figure out a better way to cool those machines then other and let the doors open. I seen the guy left the skipper with one of machine and the one truck driver drove it down hope you have a great afternoon
The Farming Life karma,karma,karma
Looks like it's doing a great job it's not out of fuel it's not plugged it's not running at a snails pace why do you watch krone videos if they are just junk why do you need sponsors to pay your farm bills why does a custom harvester need a custom harvester to harvest his own field I guess these questions will never be answered have a nice day efficiency is the key to farming
The Farming Life karma,karma,karma Do you not even question your own choices?
The Farming Life
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They straight piped the V12s this year and no more heat issue. The muffler on the 700 collects to much heat so they open the panel. I bet it gets a straight pipe. The skip happened because part of the pass in the starting end was planted North to South and the rest east to west. It caused a few gaps. They chopped this way to fill trucks. Two trucks to get across east to west. The north to south would have been one and half trucks. Cutting this way makes one truck north to south so the trucks are always rolling out full and not turning around to keep filling. I am glad that truck mashed the skip as it would have blocked the view of the 700 rolling by.
I was told that the Krone’s chop corn better then John Deere. Is that true?
The Krone is impressive. I think Krone, NH, Claas and JD all do a good job. I think a customer has to look at all the features and test them to see what works best for them.
How many gallons of fuel do they take?
That’s a good question. I will have to look in the brochure.
Is this the same farm you were just at?
Yes where the bunker video was filmed with the MX285 and 6715.
+bigtractorpower wait those two tractors keep up with 3 krones?
Don't forget about the kernel processor, those things suck horsepower
Very true.
By the tons to the acre
You are right. I flubbed that one. I proof the video twice before I post it and just did not hear that mistake. My other videos shared this week state tons but when I recorded the audio on those I said pounds a few times but caught it and re-recorded it. Just missed the mistake in this one.
That ain’t big trucks if it’s only 10T (because in Europe nobody uses trucks you just can’t go on the field with them) we have a trailer of 13/14T but it’s mostly around 16T and you’ve got some with 21/24T trailers
These are older trucks so they are inexpensive power and allow to run a bunch of haulers for little investment.
How rare are krones in America?
Mackenzie owen very common in my area
I know they are popular in California, New York, Ohio and gaining ground in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The three in the video are the only ones in Kentucky only because there is not a whole lot of corn silage in the state. There are only four Claas Jaguars in the entire state.
My grass would bog one 9f these
Must be extra thick.
dont see why they need 3 choppers if they dont have enough trucks to keep up?
Well that is all the trucks that were in the field at the time. Others were on the road and others unloading at the bunk.
what do they cost
A bunch. A new self propelled I think is nearly $700,000.
you need 30 trucks
They had a bunch of trucks. The bunk was 4 miles away so it kept the trucks busy.
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Thank you for watching.
Those are just bob tail trucks. Woopty do.
They keep three 10 row choppers moving. They hauled off 70 tons of corn silage in less than 10 minutes. You use what you have.
Those truck drivers… 🤦♂️
Thank you for posting. Could you put your Instagram link in please?
The link is instagram.com/bigtractorpower/
Those krones look a bit underpwered to tell the truth, think they would run better with some cat 3616' in them
They seem to have plenty of power. Well matched to all machines their size. The Deere machine is only 616 hp at this size. The niece size Krone is 1,100 hp.
If I spent that much money on a chopper I’d be pissed having to have engine door open sorry not a fan of them
The easy collect heads are terrible if the corn gets a little dewy.
I am glad it was dry when I filmed.
It looks to green to be chopping
It’s not. Just at the right spot. Combines will be harvesting corn here in two weeks. Lots of fields already have big yellow spots. It’s now or never to be chopping. Corn was planted in March it’s plenty ready.
Too many choppers and not enough trucks.
In an earlier video, maybe the same farm, I counted one chopper, at least three trucks and two tractors leveling the pit silo.
Depends how far it is to the clamp our neighbour runs 4 or 5 trailer that are about 50m³ capacity with their Fendt Katana when they do the fields next to what was my granddad's place they can keep up with a trailer always there ready to take over when they do the fields next to ours which adds about a mile to their journey they can't keep up and it is either left waiting for 5 to 10 minutes or they hire in two more trailers, drivers and tractors.
Much too green for silage the custom guys charge by the tonight not quality
I promise you it’s dry. It’s at 65% and falling. Combines will be in corn here in two weeks. Getting lots of full yellow spots in the field.
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