Harvesting our 2016 corn crop! Yes the combine needs a bath. It has not been washed in two years. Another problem is that we don't have a pressure washer.
Watching your equipment working in the field makes me miss helping friends during harvest. I always enjoyed running the tractors rather it be hooked to a auger cart or tillage tool. Stay safe.
Who cares if we have a 4 row head! It is what works beast for OUR operation. I hear it over and over again every day. You don't need to say "you need to buy this" " you need to buy that". Do you think we don't think about this stuff? Switching to a 6 row head gains you around 2-3 feet every pass. Spending 35-45k on corn heads for both combine and chopper, changing wheel spacing, cultivator, planter and probably something else makes no sense at $3 corn, and $14-15 milk.
A combine does not have to shine to shell corn.Blow it dust out her a get the job done.Your grain looks nice and clean in the hopper.Thats what counts when you sell it.Stay safe out there!
Big advantage with a four row head is he just gets on the road to the next field nothing to disconnect or hook back up. Saves a lot of time and effort right there. for all those folks that think he needs to buy a bigger head to harvest he will be more than happy to do so..........Fork over the cash and no you won't get paid back. Farmers carry enough debt as it is and if he's happy with his operation who are you to say otherwise? There is a local farmer in Litchfield, New Hampshire who still harvest his corn by the entire stalk with everything left on the stalk untouched hauled by a 42 year old tractor the harvester is 46 years old single row and no he will not replace it, he harvest 600 acres not for corn. He sells everything he harvest for Halloween displays makes a killing selling to Boston area stores and all over New Hampshire. I suppose the crowd out there will say he's doing it wrong too. OK help a farmer out if you really want him to have a pressure washer buy it and send it to him just don't expect to get paid. You think the stock market is a risk? Farmers make stock brokers look like kids that don't have a clue. You guys out there invest several hundred thousands of dollars in a new crop the farmer just planted with zero possibility of actually growing utilizing the no till method in a very bad drought year and it's not going to get better according to the weather forecasters. And you don't have any water to irrigate with. And you think worrying about your bills is bad?
That's a classic set up they don't even make 4 row heads anymore that guy is going to have a difficult time finding replacement parts especially the auger
The only drawback with a 4 row on a 9500 is compaction in less than perfect conditions. The 9500 weighs about 25000# empty no head. With a full tank add 10-12k more. My 4400 with 4 row is under 12k with 4 row head and about 18k full. But I would love to have a 9500 dueled up and a 6 row.
I hear what you're saying about the $3.00 corn. If you can run your operation with the equipment you have, why spend the money on bigger stuff? We run with (4) 38" rows and yielded 212 bu / acre. I doubt the guys with the 30" and 20" rows didn't do much better.
if I am correct that 4450 should be around 130 horse power and 20000 pounds of corn is a bit over 9 tonnes and lets say the trailer is 1 ton an it doesnt look very heavy I wonder why that tractor power hops on that hill
Austin Campbell My guess is that it is hard to do with how their corn is planted. Because unloading on the go really speeds things up! I'm currently helping out on my Uncle's farm with the corn harvest, and when we unload on the go we harvest a lot more corn per hour. Too fast actually, and his fancy new Sukup continuous flow dryer and pneumatic air system still can't keep up, and we fill the 2500 bushel wet bin before the day is done! Needs a bigger wet bin so we can go all day and have it dry the corn overnight.
By the time one load is unloaded you drive back to the feild and the combine driver already has the next load full. So you just hop into the other tractor and head back to the farm.
Beautiful country nice video You guys have a familly farm like the good old days . hope farming stays that way for a while great job.
Watching your equipment working in the field makes me miss helping friends during harvest. I always enjoyed running the tractors rather it be hooked to a auger cart or tillage tool. Stay safe.
Rural King has an electric pressure washer for $99 that works great for equipment. Great video guys. I like the music and perspectives.
Who cares if we have a 4 row head! It is what works beast for OUR operation. I hear it over and over again every day. You don't need to say "you need to buy this" " you need to buy that". Do you think we don't think about this stuff? Switching to a 6 row head gains you around 2-3 feet every pass. Spending 35-45k on corn heads for both combine and chopper, changing wheel spacing, cultivator, planter and probably something else makes no sense at $3 corn, and $14-15 milk.
iowadairyboys - Old Channel you guys aren't the only ones with 4 row equipment we run 4 row 36 inch too
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That is mighty fine corn.
That was a great video man. You guys are cool. Keep em coming!
Thanks boss!
I gave the video a thumbs up. I'm on a 4RN setup myself. Talk about getting some odd looks.
A combine does not have to shine to shell corn.Blow it dust out her a get the job done.Your grain looks nice and clean in the hopper.Thats what counts when you sell it.Stay safe out there!
good thing you guys had 4 wheel drive that looked like a hard climb
Good looking Corn
Big advantage with a four row head is he just gets on the road to the next field nothing to disconnect or hook back up. Saves a lot of time and effort right there.
for all those folks that think he needs to buy a bigger head to harvest he will be more than happy to do so..........Fork over the cash and no you won't get paid back. Farmers carry enough debt as it is and if he's happy with his operation who are you to say otherwise?
There is a local farmer in Litchfield, New Hampshire who still harvest his corn by the entire stalk with everything left on the stalk untouched hauled by a 42 year old tractor the harvester is 46 years old single row and no he will not replace it, he harvest 600 acres not for corn. He sells everything he harvest for Halloween displays makes a killing selling to Boston area stores and all over New Hampshire. I suppose the crowd out there will say he's doing it wrong too.
OK help a farmer out if you really want him to have a pressure washer buy it and send it to him just don't expect to get paid. You think the stock market is a risk? Farmers make stock brokers look like kids that don't have a clue.
You guys out there invest several hundred thousands of dollars in a new crop the farmer just planted with zero possibility of actually growing utilizing the no till method in a very bad drought year and it's not going to get better according to the weather forecasters. And you don't have any water to irrigate with. And you think worrying about your bills is bad?
Thank you. Someone has some common since!
That's a classic set up they don't even make 4 row heads anymore that guy is going to have a difficult time finding replacement parts especially the auger
Not really. Besides this head is far from wore out.
good video
Sorry if this question has been answered before, but how many acres of corn will you be harvesting?
The only drawback with a 4 row on a 9500 is compaction in less than perfect conditions. The 9500 weighs about 25000# empty no head. With a full tank add 10-12k more. My 4400 with 4 row is under 12k with 4 row head and about 18k full. But I would love to have a 9500 dueled up and a 6 row.
we got 6 row now
We have a jd 4455, 4055, 4440, 4450, and 4020. All good machines tho the 4020 needs a motor job
I hear what you're saying about the $3.00 corn. If you can run your operation with the equipment you have, why spend the money on bigger stuff? We run with (4) 38" rows and yielded 212 bu / acre. I doubt the guys with the 30" and 20" rows didn't do much better.
if I am correct that 4450 should be around 130 horse power and 20000 pounds of corn is a bit over 9 tonnes and lets say the trailer is 1 ton an it doesnt look very heavy I wonder why that tractor power hops on that hill
It is heavy and its a bigger hill than a camera can give it justice for. Ours is running about 170 hp.
+iowadairyboys what magic did you do to make it pump out 170 horse?
Previous owns turned the screws on injector pump. Not hard at all.
+iowadairyboys is that also what you mean when you talk about thr bigger 4450?
Yes
Don’t need to take the header off to get to another field.
I'm sure you've answered this before, but I missed it if you have. Why do y'all not dump on the go?
We don't need to. And usaly someone is dumbing at the bin and the other guy is Harvesting. So there is no one to chase the combine.
Austin Campbell My guess is that it is hard to do with how their corn is planted.
Because unloading on the go really speeds things up! I'm currently helping out on my Uncle's farm with the corn harvest, and when we unload on the go we harvest a lot more corn per hour. Too fast actually, and his fancy new Sukup continuous flow dryer and pneumatic air system still can't keep up, and we fill the 2500 bushel wet bin before the day is done! Needs a bigger wet bin so we can go all day and have it dry the corn overnight.
By the time one load is unloaded you drive back to the feild and the combine driver already has the next load full. So you just hop into the other tractor and head back to the farm.
iowadairyboys I can understand that. When you don't have the extra person to chase the combine you do what you have to do.
iowadairyboys I see. I thought you guys had 3 people like we did. When we only have 2 people we do the same thing as you.
Kinda late to comment here but I have always kinda liked 4 and 6 row heads not sure why though
Are you guys done with corn yet.
Yet? It is only half way through October! We are around 3/4 done with our own corn.
iowadairyboys I don't know when started up there start in September with corn and got done this past week
Why was the bigger 4440 on the auger and not the little one?
The other 4440 was at the other auger at the other farm.
no need to wash a combine all that does is make them rust faster. just blow it off. we haven't ever wash our and we had it for 7 years
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4 row on a 9500 that seems a little overkill i would have a 6 on it or maybe a 8 but what do i know i use a 2 row new idea super sheller
Nothing overkill about it. The less rows the faster the ground speed is. 2.5-2.7 mph is the maximum you can go in 200- 260 BPA corn.
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