I'm very impressed with the way you used the drone to get the footage but you used the sound of the ground camera. Excellent job of bringing machine sound to drone footage.
I agree. Probably one of the most satisfying videos. Engine sounds with an aerial plus commentary of what's going on. Impressive operation too for sure
They are all good combine operators, notice the croop is partly laying on the ground and still they managed to get the croop even . Or is it the draper head with belt that does the work...?
+Elm custom harvesting thank you for watching. Wheat goes quick here to make way for beans. How did your harvest go? I really like your 9550. I would like to find one to film.
Elm custom harvesting. I am sandeep singh from India punjab. I want second hand Combine for own business ,what is the price of second hand wheat harvest. In Indian ruppes
Ticky66MN take 600000 and times it by 8 and that would be all 8 bare stock. I don't know what those headers go for but im guessing total 1 combines probably 700000 dollars give or take some money
+Ticky66MN I can try some basic prices. I have price books that cover tractors from 1930 to 1995 that give retail prices so for classics I can add price detail to the story. The modern machinery has so many options and there is retail price and discounts and trade it is a bit more complicated.
+JDPower 55 in this operation everyone sticks with their job from start to finish in the same machine. One of my friends runs one of the combines. Through out the year he has several jobs. He runs a R4045 Sprayer, 9620R applying NH3, 9420R with a Kinze 24 row planter, 7120R with a 946 MoCo in hay, a 6105E on a NH round baler in hay, an S690 in wheat, corn and soybeans a 9420R on a 915 v ripper for tillage.
Grr. @631. I've always hated it when people stop to dump and lv the header on smacking all of the grain onto the ground. Idk why. It's not that much. But the same guy running his reel way to fast was always something else that bugged me. Lol.
Every farm I film at in WKY runs their reel at this speed. Every video I post gets the comments the reel is too fast. They are harvesting 95-100 bu. Wheat. The reel is set to the speed of the combine to pull the wheat in. I don’t see much loss.
I hear the but if the crop starts to stand back up as the fingers break contact then that's to fast. But it's a minor loss if any as long as the Header is moving. Idk. Just a pet peve of mine. I did the wheat harvest a couple of times and the first year of the 645fd there were very few of them. But in Oklahoma otw to our very first field and this kid had a brand new 9770 and 645fd. Never cut a single anything. And as we all pull in the field he comes in way to hot and jerks back the stick @22mph. All the weight comes off the rears and he looses control. Smacks the left side right inside the snout on a tree that didn't move an inch and the whole unit flips around with the combine halfway down a 10ft ditch with the header barely hanging on keeping it from going the rest of the way down. Idk how I managed to be right there to see that. But wow! That whole unit ($119000 645fd and I think $345000 9770sts) was totaled out and never got to thrash a single thing. The kid was alright. But he went home the next day. Wish it woulda been videoed! Sorry for the ramble! And I'm glad you started doing the videos you do! And you and all of us are very lucky the you've met some of these farmers! Not many farms are able to run multiple brand new machines. And some are very secretive. I worked for a guy that would go as far as uncalibrating his combine monitors so that the operators didn't know the actual yield so that we couldn't tell anyone. Lol. And he def wouldn't let any filming go on. Alright done rambling. Thanks for your vids and have a great memorial day weekend!
+ETHAN GRAF they were never all together but there are 8 in the field. They get spread out. You can see our 2016 wheat harvest video after a big storm where all 8 are parked and lined up.
What's the difference between an S model and the STS models? I asked a service manager at John Deere one time, and he didn't know. I'm sure it's only a google search away.
+133dave133 the main differences from an STS to an S is the cab and sheet metal. The inner workings of an S660 is the the same as the 9760STS and the same for the S670 and 97770STS. The 9870STS was 300 bu. The S680 and S690 jumped up to 400 bu. These combines have two grain returns on the right side while the S660 and S670 only have one.
Thanks for the reply, and the info. I did notice that the S models looked a little more egg shaped. I suppose that it's hard for John Deere to radically change their models all at once, hence offer two different, but similar models. I saw this on the harvest crew back in the day. There were a hand full of people still wanting the straw walkers over the STS variant. We still cut once in awhile with a 1927 Holt combine just for fun. If you ever get to Nebraska, you could film it. It was a big machine back in the day, and it even has a draper head on it, haha.
That sounds very good, Wheat is ripening in very quick here in Ireland which is usually not a great sign, prob only 2 weeks away, were cutting winter barley here at the min working out very well over 3 half ton per acre or a little over.
+Big Sasquach I am not sure what the price is. They make money wheat because all the wheat ground is then double cropped into soybeans. Harvest wheat in June and drill beans in June. Then harvest those beans in October from the same field. Having a field produce two grain crops in one year is a big bonus. The question here in Kentucky would be why not raise wheat? It's a bonus crop.
I believe in a previous video you said that this farm trades out 5 of its combines and all of its big tractors each year. What's the reasoning behind that? Surely the machines aren't worn out after only a year of use. Also, do the combine head also get traded towards new heads each year or no?
+CorporalChaos the farm does trade most of its combines and tractors each year. It's all about up time and moving fast. Each combine harvests about 5,300 acres a year. In 2017 the farm went with 6 new 2017 S690 combines as they are jumping from 5 to 6 combines in corn. They rent back two 2016 S690s to help out in wheat. In wheat each of the 8 combines will cut 1,300 acres. In corn each combine will shell 2,200 acres. In double crop soybeans each combine will harvest 1,800 acres. Header wise I think those stay a few years. This year all the MacDons and 612C heads are 2017 models.
+truck and tractor pulling videos usa pullers BTP does not do very much drone coverage. In the case of trying to film 4 to 8 machines with 45ft heads on the ground is hard because of a few factors. You get the first machine up close and by the time they all pass the last machine is a good distance off. Often times the wind is blowing dust at you so it's hard to show the scope of machines working together together because the lead machines chaff and dust clouds the rest of the machines following. Sunlight makes it a challenging. Normally you only get a chance to see all the combines working together is first thing in the morning when they get started or in the evening as they wrap up a field. The rest of the day they spread out. The early light and sun set light makes it hard on the ground to film because the sun will blind the camera in one direction. The drone lets the viewer see all the machines despite dust and sun. BTP mainly uses a drone to show many machines or to see a tall crop being harvested. One last challenge of being on the ground is time. BTP has footage of 6 of these S690s cutting on the ground. It takes 12 minutes for all the combines to pass the camera and one gets jammed up at the end and quits for a few minutes. The drone allots for quick viewable clips.
