Old Matt is a cool guy! The kind you would want to drink a beer with. I about fell out of my chair when he said 80 to 100 bushel per acre. That’s awesome.
Always enjoy listening you and Matt talking about the harvest. Please keep going with the general conversation between you and the operator. Great videos.
Thanks much for posting. Have been fascinated with big farm and construction machinery since I was a kid. When I was 15(I’m 50 now), I was living in Dothan, Al. where peanuts are a huge crop. I pulled off the road on my dual sport motorcycle to watch a big International tractor with harvester in tow working a big field. The farmer could sense I was enthralled and stopped the tractor, throttled it down, and motioned me over. Long story short, I got to climb into the operator’s “office” and run several rows with him. The sound of that beautiful Diesel engine at song and the noise of the peanut harvester running was simply heaven! I thanked him as he dropped me off and the memory has lasted a lifetime. Keep up the good work.
Very cool. When I was a kid I watched the farm across the street work the field. One day the farmer waved me over and I got to ride along. I was hooked for life. I will have a peanut combine video in the near future. Thank you for sharing.
Not many years, where mud is an issue. But this year man rain has been everywhere. Seen some corn yesterday in West Tn. Silks are dark, so its about done making its crop for this year. Beans are full of Pods and filling out also. So Harvest is close again.
I've seen a couple videos talking about the LSW tires and I am curious if any of the farms that you film at are thinking about going that way? Would they work on a combine like the S790 and would they help in getting through that ridiculously wet field without making a ton of ruts?
Mac Don is not the superior header, it's a cheaper option for customers who can't afford the Deere header but want Deere combines.. It's substantially cheaper
Great video and great insight about the harvesting process...I'm still pretty new to your channel and am learning a little more each time I watch one of your videos...much appreciated, thanks!! :)
When will JD start installing restrooms 🚽 in their combines. For over $500,000 one would think. Great video. When will we see a vid on the enter workings of these great machines. Would like to see how they separate the trash from the grain. Stay dry my friend.
Do they have to constantly adjust the height of the head? Or is that part of the auto steer stuff? Really wish you could get a operator that could really explain stuff for people like me that havent driven anything built in probably 35-45 years(always ran 15-25 year old stuff when I did). I know very little about these machines now days, and Im a 34 year old IT guy now. Thats why I like MNF's videos. But yours for more stats. Cool seeing these big ass farms too. In my area a couple thousand acres is some what normal. Cool seeing these 10, 20, 30k+ farms.
The combine was running in a matted from rain so Matt was adjusting the header on the the go to collect the wheat. Normally it would not need adjustment.
I believe MacDon has the patent on the belt feeders in the header, I am sure they used to. This is supposed to deliver the grain to the feeder house without as much shell out or as many wads of grass choking the header. When I was a kid on the farm, we left in 1964, the headers were less than 14' and the concept of draper heads was not around and whatever combine you bought came with a header. I asked a farmer why he had a MacDon and that was the answer he gave me.
One thing I noticed is the header gets the downed wheat quite well. That's always a concern with winter wheat that is fertilized for top yield. 80-100 bu/a is a pretty good yield. It looks really good to me. In some parts of Europe they report yields as high as 150 bu/a. I'm not partial to any brands of equipment. I just enjoyed farming. Looks like it's wet in many parts of the country. In SESD we got about only about 30% planted and had to take PP for the rest. Another great video BTP!!
It has been a wet year. There was 64 inches of rain here last year and I think that really boosted the wheat. Sorry to hear the rain prevented planting for you.
Again very interesting video! Thanks. Just to check if I have understood correctly : does Matt own or rent the land he is working on or is he a farming contractor that landlords use to perform the jobs that need to be done : tillage, drilling, spraying and harvest. In that case how many acres does he take care of and how many tractors ans combine does his company own?
Matt is an employee of the farm. The farm owns the equipment and has a mix of owned and rented farms. Matt sprays, plants, combines and runs two tillage seasons from the farm.
Does Matt work for one farm that has a lot of acres to plant and harvest or does the farm he works for plant and harvest many different farms? Also, does the farm Matt works for need to get new equipment each year to make up for the wear and tear done to the equipment they use?
I work for a farm that covers about 33,000 acres annually. It’s not a custom crew. And yes we do trade tractors and combines annually. The implements usually stay around for a few years before they get traded.
So that was a hard red winter wheat done with conventional farming practices? How many bushels per acre? What % moisture were they harvesting? How many acres per day and total? I like to hear more specifics and general farm facts. Number of generations farm, number of hired help.
Enjoy your channel watch every video. Just curious do the grain carts have power to their own wheels or tracks to help keep that weight moving ? (Via the PTO ?)
No power to the grain wheels. They just get pulled along. The pto powers the unloading auger. I just made a video on the Kinze 1105 carts work on this farm’s wheat harvest posted at m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5UJnbTftT9I.html
That’s a good question. I have not watched. I know that 17 semi trucks had been to the field and out before the rain. I would say each combine is producing 2,400 bu an hour.
@@bigtractorpower i would say that's about right in 80bu what because 8n 50 to 60bu wheat with an s670 and 35ft head we were averaging 500 to 600bpa at 2 to 3mhh
I've seen big combines like that actually put a windrow splitter to make it easier for small square & round baling. I think for a NJ guy baling straw down south, he should have a windrow "squisher" like I have seen being used in Europe.
This video was filmed on June 30. I have lots of wheat harvest videos and double crop bean video to share yet but harvest ended on the 30th. This was the last field of the year.
I'm playing Farming simulator 19 with a jd s790 with a 45 ft Draper head harvesting wheat its a little too expensive to buy a real jd S790 with heads and all 800k probably but Farming simulator 19 is great
At 14:55 there is a wabbit or a piglet running in front to the left of the header. What happens if he gets fed into the header? I noticed you then turned your camera away !
Hello! I do not know English, so I communicate through Google translator. I understand that you are talking about agricultural machinery, new models, and so on? I am from Kazakhstan, I would like to know how I can find an investor for the purchase of American-made agricultural equipment for the organization of an agricultural enterprise in northern Kazakhstan to grow wheat, rapeseed and legumes. can that will advise. Thank!
There are lots of rabbits and deer out in these fields. I get to see allot of wildlife each year. Unfortunately a combine found a skunk during harvest this year while I was filming. The skunk was not happy.
The first combine I remember dad buying was a used 1980 JD 6622 for 30k at an auction. My first was an 02 Case 2388 in 08 for 100k, second was an 08 Case 8010 for 200k and in 2021 a 2016 Case 9240 for 385k. So it seems to be roughly doubling every 5-7 years since 05.
Alright... $650,000. These machines, I need them to last at a minimum of 12 years. Other than the occasional bearing failure, EVERYTHING from belts, hydraulic pumps, hoses, tires needs to last. Sickle bar sections are replaced, you bet. All that cash, times four for some folk. Of course coming from Montana, that means only 1 harvest per season. Toatally understand why Western Kentucky farmers are millionaires. Many acres, generations old paid for, and many GMO Frankenstein food crops. And everyone wonders why life expectancy has dropped, dramatically since 2000.
